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Deborah Martinez de Mattos, Paulo Mauricio Salles Rodrigues & Mauricio da J.A. de Aratanha

Abstract

- Cairu FPSO is one of the five FPSOs' to be installed up to 1998 at Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil. Designed to operate in Marlim Field for twenty years without docking, carrying out off-loading operations about each six days, and handling more than 150 000 bopd during its operational life, this unit, like the others to be installed by PETROBRAS\ has its conversion contract subject to basic requirements established in order to guarantee operational reliability Constructed in 1974 at Ishikawajima Shipyard, and pertaining to PETROBRAS fleet, CAIRU is a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) with 280 000 dwt. Due to the absence of double hull and her high operational costs as an oil tanker, she was available to be used as a Production and Storage Unit. Allied to that, Technical and E

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