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Petrobras P-36 – This incident cost several million us dollars and it’s worthy to learn from it. 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. Its current value is US$466 million. Constructed and erected as a drilling rig in the year 1995, at the Fincantieri shipyard (Genoa, Italy), was owned by SocietàArmamentoNaviAppoggioS.p.A. The rig, which was a good 33,000 tonnes was transformed to the biggest global oil production platform by Davie Industry, Levis, Canada. P-36, which was functioning for Petrobras, about 130 kms off the coast of Brazil on the Roncador Oil Field daily generated approximately 84,000 barrels (13,400 m3) of crude oil. P-36 was substituted by a chartered vessel from SBM Offshore, FPSO-Brasil, which is in a lease contract with Petrobras since Dec 2002. Continue reading →