Brazilian state-owned oil and gasoline big Petrobras has appointed a North Carolina-headquartered firm to ship a seal-less canned motor boosting system for its area within the Campos Basin with the purpose of enabling dependable subsea manufacturing.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation has signed a know-how cooperation settlement with Petrobras to design, manufacture, check, and supply operational assist for a subsea canned motor boosting system, to be deployed mudline at a Petrobras manufacturing area within the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.

The two companions are working collectively to develop a subsea boosting system for unprocessed hydrocarbon fluid consisting of a combination of oil, gasoline and particulates that can function at a 1,500-meter water depth.

Curtiss-Wright is performing the design, manufacturing, and water-based testing at its Cheswick, Pennsylvania, facility inside its Naval & Power Segment. Multiphase testing with hydrocarbons will happen at a facility in Brazil.

The first subsea canned motor boosting system is anticipated to be prepared for operation in 2027.

“We are excited to be working collaboratively with a leading technology developer and experienced end-user of downhole pumping and mudline boosting systems for demanding applications,” stated Lynn M. Bamford, Chair and CEO of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. “These efforts will allow us to apply our proven canned motor technology expertise to this adjacent market, thereby enabling an all-electric subsea production system, while providing an opportunity to bring tremendous value to Petrobras.”

According to Curtiss-Wright, the canned motor pump know-how is anticipated to allow dependable subsea manufacturing with fewer topside assist techniques, and likewise present flexibility to deploy these techniques on lighter-weight, lower-cost vessels, that are extra available than the bigger dealing with vessels required in as we speak’s operations.

This “topside-less” know-how is ready to assist Petrobras’ goal of all-electric subsea boosting techniques to allow lengthy tie-back manufacturing preparations. Additionally, the design supplies flexibility to deploy future Curtiss-Wright topside-less subsea boosting techniques scalable to six MW for multiphase purposes, in alignment with Petrobras’ know-how improvement roadmap.