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Petrobras contracts eight support vessels
Petrobras has approved the contracting of eight support vessels for its offshore activities as part of the 3rd Fleet Renewal Plan for Offshore Support Vessels (Prorefam). In this fifth round, four vessels were contracted from the company Bram, which will build the vessels at the Navship shipyard in Santa Catarina state; three from Starnav, with construction planned for the Detroit shipyard, also in Santa Catarina; and one from Norskan, which will use the STX (Vard) shipyard in Rio de Janeiro state.
Under the Prorefam programme, launched in 2008, some 146 vessels are to be contracted in total over seven rounds. The local content required for the construction phase is 50% for anchor handling and tug supply (AHTS) vessels, and 60% for platform supply (PSV) and oil spill response vessels (OSRV).
A total of 87 vessels had been contracted by the fifth round. Proposals for the sixth round of contracts were received in early February and are currently undergoing technical review. The seventh round will be launched in March 2014 and the respective contracts signed in the second half of this year.
