Towed by the oceangoing tugs BOKA Defender, BOKA Expedition and BOKA Sherpa, the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré arrived in Brazilian waters during December 2024.
This 336m-long FPSO is one of the largest offshore structures ever to be moored in Brazilian waters.
For Boskalis, this was a significant transport project, because earlier this year the company’s vessels towed Almirante Tamandaré’s sister vessel –FPSO Sepetiba – using the oceangoing tugs BOKA Fulmar, BOKA Alpine and BOKA Glacier from Southeast Asia to Brazil.
These two exceptional transports are testament of the company’s capabilities of transporting huge offshore structures around the world with its fleet of 13 long-distance towing vessels, and 11 semi-submersible heavy transport vessels.
The FPSO was officially named by Dutch FPSO operator SBM Offshore in July 2024. The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel will operate at the giant field off the coast of Brazil for the country’s state-owned energy company Petrobras.
The FPSO’s design incorporates SBM Offshore’s Fast4Ward new build, multi-purpose hull, which was completed in February 2023. With a processing capacity of 225,000 barrels of oil and 12 million cubic metres of gas per day, the unit will have an estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity below 10 kg CO2e/boe.
