Sabrina Valle, Marta Nogueira
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A consortia led by Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard Limited offered Brazil’s Petrobras the lowest price to build a floating platform for Buzios, Latin America’s second-largest oil field, three people close to the competition said.
Keppel offered to build P-78, a 180,000-barrels-per-day production unit that Petrobras plans for its deepwater Buzios field, for 12.52 billion reais ($2.33 billion), the sources said, asking not to be named as the information is confidential.
A winner has not been selected and the result is unclear, the sources said.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as Brazil’s state-controlled producer is known, declined to comment. Keppel did not immediately respond to requests for comment.