FPSO profile · Santos Basin
FPSO Bacalhau
FPSO Bacalhau is a unit chartered from MODEC on the Bacalhau field, operated by Equinor with a nameplate capacity of 220,000 barrels of oil per day. It started production in Oct 2025 and is producing.
- Status
- Producing
- Field
- Bacalhau
- Basin
- Santos
- Field operator
- Equinor
- Contract model
- Charter
- Contractor / owner
- MODEC
- Oil capacity
- 220,000 bpd
- First oil
- Oct 2025
First FPSO on MODEC's M350 newbuild hull.
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Other MODEC units in Brazil
| FPSO | Field | Field operator | Contract | Contractor / owner | Oil (bpd) | First oil | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cidade de Angra dos Reis (MV22) | Tupi (pilot) | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | — | Oct 2010 | Producing |
| Cidade de Mangaratiba (MV24) | Iracema Sul (Tupi) | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | — | Oct 2014 | Producing |
| Cidade de Itaguaí (MV26) | Iracema Norte (Tupi) | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | — | Jul 2015 | Producing |
| Cidade de São Paulo (MV23) | Sapinhoá | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | 120,000 | Jan 2013 | Producing |
| Cidade de Caraguatatuba (MV27) | Lapa | TotalEnergies | Charter | MODEC | — | Dec 2016 | Producing |
| Almirante Barroso (MV32) | Búzios | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | 150,000 | May 2023 | Producing |
| Guanabara (MV31) | Mero | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | 180,000 | May 2022 | Producing |
| Carioca (MV30) | Sépia | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | 180,000 | Aug 2021 | Producing |
| Anita Garibaldi (MV33) | Marlim | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | 80,000 | Aug 2023 | Producing |
| Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes (MV29) | Tartaruga Verde | Petrobras | Charter | MODEC | — | 2018 | Producing |
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Sources
Pedro Sotomayor, PMP® — Senior Cost Engineer on FPSO projects, 15+ years in offshore cost engineering and project controls. Every figure in this directory links to a public source.