Satellite Networks

SES satellites to support Brazil’s offshore oil production 

Space solutions company SES has announced that it will provide service on its high-capacity medium-Earth orbit (MEO) satellite network O3b mPOWER to Petrobras, the Brazilian state-owned oil company, to connect multiple new floating production, storage and offloading systems (FPSOs).

FPSOs are modern and efficient oil production platforms, responsible for processing, collecting, storing, and transferring oil to shuttle tankers, directly from subsea wells in deepwater fields. FPSOs offer the flexibility, capacity, and operational resilience needed to sustain large-scale offshore production in remote and challenging environments.

The new FPSOs will enter into operation in Brazil between 2026 and 2030 to meet the energy sector’s growing demand.

As SES points out, Brazil is home to the majority of the offshore projects under development worldwide, and Petrobras is one of the largest FPSO operators on the planet, responsible for most of the country’s oil and gas production.

Operational since 2024, O3b mPOWER’s high-performance, carrier-grade, low-latency, open-standard MEO network is, says SES, ideal for energy market use cases like FPSO connectivity.

SES adds that O3b mPOWER features such as high return (upload) throughputs and the ability to shift capacity between upload and download links provide the reliability, resilience and flexibility required to support evolving application needs and the massive amount of data generated by FPSO operations.

Indeed, the ability to transform real-time information into faster and smarter decisions, resulting in substantial efficiency gains, is a crucial factor for the offshore oil and gas industry.



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