Qualla: Roncador Field https://qualla.com/roncador-field en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/p/0/roncador-field-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Roncador Field https://qualla.com/roncador-field Roncador Field: Introduction https://qualla.com/roncador-field/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. On 15 March 2001, at 125 kilometers off the coast of Brazil, the largest semisubmersible oil platform in the world began to list. Two explosions had torn through the P-36's ballast system the night before. Workers evacuated what they could, but eleven men died in the accident. For five days, the platform fought to stay afloat, helicopters orbiting overhead while Petrobras engineers tried to stabilize her. Then she rolled onto her side and sank in 1,360 meters of water, settling on the floor of the Campos Basin above three billion barrels of oil she had barely started pumping. The loss was total. The field remained. What came next was a twenty-year project to extract Roncador's reserves, platform by platform, through the greatest depths the offshore industry had ever worked.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/p/0/roncador-field-wp/7hp0-roncador-field-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Roncador Field: Oil Under the Atlantic https://qualla.com/roncador-field/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Roncador field sits in the Campos Basin, 125 kilometers off Brazil's southeast coast, northeast of Rio de Janeiro. It covers 111 square kilometers - a buried lake of hydrocarbons trapped in sandstone reservoirs roughly 1,500 meters below the seafloor, in water itself 1,500 me...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/p/0/roncador-field-wp/7hp0-roncador-field-oil-under-the-atlantic.mp3 0:06 2 full Roncador Field: The P-36 Disaster https://qualla.com/roncador-field/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The P-36 was a record-setter. At the time of her sinking, she was the world's largest semisubmersible production facility - a vast steel platform mounted on submerged pontoons, producing 84,000 barrels of oil per day and 1.3 million cubic meters of gas. She had started pumping in...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/p/0/roncador-field-wp/7hp0-roncador-field-the-p-36-disaster.mp3 0:06 3 full Roncador Field: Building Back https://qualla.com/roncador-field/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Production had to continue. The next platform, P-52, was contracted in December 2003 to a consortium of Technip and Keppel FELS at a total cost of approximately $1 billion. It came online in November 2007. A second platform, P-54, was a floating production, storage, and offloadin...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/p/0/roncador-field-wp/7hp0-roncador-field-building-back.mp3 0:06 4 full Roncador Field: The First of Everything https://qualla.com/roncador-field/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Roncador forced the industry to invent. The field involved the world's first drill pipe riser rated for 2,000 meters of water depth, the first subsea tree at that depth, the first early production riser (EPR) qualified for those pressures. Offshore operations at 1,500 to 2,000 me...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/p/0/roncador-field-wp/7hp0-roncador-field-the-first-of-everything.mp3 0:06 5 full Roncador Field: From the Air https://qualla.com/roncador-field/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. From a cruising altitude, the Roncador field is invisible most of the time - lost in the haze of the South Atlantic. But on clear days, four bright points of light appear on the water, pinpricks surrounded by tiny attending ships. They are the platforms, and the ships are the sup...

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