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Petrobras 36 (P-36) was at the time the largest floating semi-submersible oil platform in the world prior to its sinking on 20 March 2001. [3] It was owned by Petrobras, a semi-public Brazilian oil company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. [4]
Jun 4, 2014 · One of the biggest global floating semi-submersible oil platforms Petrobras 36 (P-36), which was owned by Petrobras, an oil company in Brazil with its base of operations at Rio De Janeiro was destroyed after 20 th March 2011 when it sunk. The platform was then approximately valued at US$350 million.
Oct 1, 2008 · The Petrobras Platform 36 (P-36) was a drilling platform designed to be completely supported by the buoyancy of two pontoons and four support columns.
Oct 1, 2008 · The Petrobras Platform 36 (P-36) oil rig was origi- nally built in 1994 as a drilling platform but was later converted to a deep-water semi-submersible production platform to service a different offshore oil field than initially intended.
May 6, 2002 · The P-36, formerly called "Spirit of Columbus", was a floating production unit (FPU) based on a conversion of a Friede & Goldman L-1020 Trendsetter type semi submersible platform. It was initially designed and built, in Italy, as a FPU to operate at 500m water depth, with a capacity to process 100,000 bopd and 2 million cubic meters per day of gas.
May 1, 2001 · Petrobras reportedly has considered using the P-40 semisubmersible, designated for Marlim Sul, to take on some of the Roncador production. This rig has a capacity of about 150,000 b/d and could handle the 84,000 b/d the P-36 was producing when the accident occurred.
Petrobras P-36. On March 20th 2001, the P-36, stationed over Roncador, sank after three explosions left 11 workers dead. At the time, the world's biggest semisubmersible had been producing 84,000 b/d and 1.3 million cu m/d of gas.
