Aker Kvaerner has completed its two first offshore Sulphate Removal Units (SRU) commissioning in Brazil. The work has been executed by the Aker Kvaerner subsidiary Aker Kvaerner Process Systems, who is a major supplier of water injection and SRU including services, successfully completing the SRU commissioning on Petrobras FPSO P50 with a capacity of 220,000BPD of low sulphate water at the end of April 2007. This unit is the first delivered by Aker Kvaerner Process Systems to the Brazilian market. In parallel, Aker Kvaerner Process Systems completed the commissioning of the second SRU supplied to the FPSO MV14 (FPSO Cidade do Rio de Janeiro) operated by MODEC, with a capacity of 120,000BPD of low sulphate water. Performance guarantee testing was approved by the client. The operational SRU’s are part of the IOR (Increased Oil Recovery) activities supporting Petrobras to maintain and increase the oil production in the Campos Basin. In addition to the facilities in operation, Aker Kvaerner Process Systems is currently supplying similar equipment for another two Brazilian projects; The P-54 project is expected to be commissioned shortly, and the FPSO Cidade do Niteroi is to be commissioned at the end of 2008.
