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Brazil Focus

Image: Audrey Leon/OE

A water treatment module that is currently under construction at SBM

Offshore’s Brasa yard in

Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro.

Image: SBM Offshore) in

Overview of modules under construction at the Brasa yard in Niteroi. progress

An overview of the Brasco (a Wilson, Sons group) logistics support base in Niteroi, one of the largest private port ter- minals, which serves IOCs such as Statoil and Chevron, as

Image: Wilson, Sons well as service providers M-I SWACO and Halliburton.

The country’s National Petroleum for 2013-2017 will be US$147.5 bil- the FPSO Cidade de São Vicente in

Agency (ANP) is gearing up for its lion. Petrobras is focusing its efforts Sapinhoa Norte in February.

latest licensing round, which will on four main projects: Sapinhoa, Also in February, Petrobras con- begin later this month. ANP reports Roncador, Baleia Azul, and Papa nected the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí, that 71 companies have already en- Terra. which arrived at the feld in Decem- tered the ring, including ExxonMo- The company is currently pump- ber, to Well 9-SPS-88 at the Bauna bil, BP plc, Chevron Corp., Petrobras, ing 300,000bo/d from its Campos feld in the southern Santos Basin. and Brazilian-based independents and Santos pre-salt basins. It took Petrobras estimates that the well

HRT and OGX. seven years to reach record produc- can produce up to 12,000 b/d. The

Although there has been steady tion with 17 wells. company will eventually connect 10 foreign investment, Petrobras con- By all accounts, 2013 is a busy more wells – 5 production, 4 water- trols the majority of the market and year for Petrobras in the pre-salt, injection, and 1 gas-injection – to the many service and vessel-operating with three production systems FPSO, reaching peak production by companies fnd themselves depen- already on-stream, and a fourth to August.

dent upon contracts from the state- follow this month. Petrobas says all three units will owned frm. Petrobras connected the FPSO add an additional 200,000 b/d to its

Cidade de São Paulo to the Sapinhoa production capacity.

Pre-salt production feld in the Santos Basin in Janu- Of course, Petrobras is not yet

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