Petrobras extends Skandi Buzios and Skandi Recife contracts through January 2028
DOF Group has agreed extensions with Petrobras for the pipelay support vessels Skandi Buzios and Skandi Recife in Brazil. Skandi Buzios received another 516 days and Skandi Recife another 550 days, extending contracts previously due to expire in the third quarter of 2026 through January 2028. Each vessel is held through a 50:50 joint venture between DOF and TechnipFMC.
Confirmed: DOF Group announced two long-term contract extensions with Petrobras covering the PLSVs Skandi Buzios and Skandi Recife. The respective extensions are 516 days and 550 days, taking contracts previously scheduled to end in the third quarter of 2026 through January 2028. DOF also confirmed that both vessels are owned through a joint venture in which DOF and TechnipFMC each hold 50%.
Analysis: The amendments provide approximately 16–18 additional months of work for each vessel and improve forward utilization visibility for specialized pipelay capacity in Brazil. They also preserve the DOF-TechnipFMC joint venture's exposure to Petrobras's subsea activity beyond the vessels' previous 2026 termination window. No contract value, day rate, field assignment or scope change was disclosed, so the financial contribution and operational deployment details cannot be quantified from this announcement. The extracted relationships are source-supported suggestions pending analyst review, not database-verified records.
Date note: The page states “Published July 31, 2026,” although the supplied collection metadata records July 30, 2026. The explicit page publication date has therefore been used.