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La superplataforma P-57 de Petrobras se equipa con motores y transformadores WegThe superplataforma P-57 of Petrobras instruments with motors and transformative Weg
25 July 2012
The oil Brazilian Petrobras finishes to bounce the P-57, a superplataforma FPSO (the English acronyms of floating unit of production, storage and download) that foresees go in in production to final of November in the Park give Baleias, in the north of the basin of Fields. The P-57 will be anchored to a depth of 1.260 metres, and will have capacity to process 180.000 barrels of oil and two million cubic metres of gas to the day.
Like important provider of equipment and systems of control and automation to Petrobras, the products Weg have an evident presence in the P 57. The group of equipment WEG supplied includes pictures of BT and MT, centres of control of motors, dry transformers of BT and MT, in addition to other surveillance systems and hygiene.
These equipment supplied to Single Buoy Moorings (SBS), the responsible company of the engineering, the construction and the supply of the P 57. They delivered to the dockyards in Singapore where adapted the fuselage and integrated cheese cheese the majority of the equipment in the platform.
In addition to the equipment supplied to SBM, Weg supplied also a total of 164 electrical motors for the P 57. These motors supplied to several manufacturers of equipment that worked directly with Weg. The motors for the compressesors of gas sold to MAN Turbo, Switzerland; the motors of the pumps of water to Sulzer Brazil; and the motors for general applications to KSB Brazil.