MODEC, Inc. announced that the FPSO Anita Garibaldi MV33 achieved First Oil production on August 16th, 2023. Deployed for production operations at the Marlim field in the Campos Basin off the coast of Brazil, the FPSO is leased on a 25-year time charter contract to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. ("Petrobras"), the Brazilian giant oil company. This is one of the longest charters for MODEC to date.

The FPSO is the 16th FPSO/FSO vessel that MODEC has delivered to the Brazilian oil and gas sector. MODEC was responsible for its engineering, procurement, construction, and mobilization, including topsides processing equipment as well as hull and marine systems. SOFEC, Inc., a MODEC group company, was responsible for the design and procurement of the spread mooring system for the FPSO. Moored some 150 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, at a water depth of approximately 670 meters, the FPSO is capable of processing 80,000 barrels of crude oil and 7,000,000 cubic meters of gas per day and has a storage capacity of up to 1 million barrels of crude oil.

With a total overall weight of more than 40,000 tons, the topside is the largest the company has installed to date. The FPS O is also MODEC's first to utilize the separation tank concept using the vessel's cargo oil tanks in order to handle large volumes of produced water (up to 270,000 barrels per day) in the oil/water separation process.