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Brazil Focus tered 28° API oil at its 3-RJS- 706 well, located in Block

BMS-11 of the Iara area, in the Santos Basin. The well is 226km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and 6km from the discovery well at depth of 2197m.

In February, Petrobras an- nounced two oil discoveries.

The frst at its Florim well (1-BRSA-1116-RJS), which encountered 29° API oil. Flo- rim, in the Santos Basin pre- salt, was drilled to a depth of 5498m in water depths of 2009m. The well sits 206km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro

SBM’s barge crane Pelicano 1 at the dock in Guanabara Bay in Niteroi state. The second discovery

Image: Audrey Leon/OE came at Petrobras 1-SPS-98 two additional FPSOs to serve the the incident. While the criminal (Sagitário) well. The compa-

Lula feld. SBM Offshore’s scope of portion of Chevron of Brazilian legal ny found 31° API oil at the Santos work will include the conversion of troubles are put to bed, civil suits Basin pre-salt well. Sagitário is the two double-hull sister vessels. The are still pending. frst well to be drilled in the BM-S-

FPSOs will have a storage capacity 50 block and is located 194km off

Recent Discoveries of 1.6MMbbl each. the coast of the state of São Paulo in

The topside facilities of each In early March, Petrobras encoun- 1871m of water.

FPSO weigh approximately 22,000 tons and both will be able to pro- duce 150,000b/d of well fuids and have associated gas treatment capacity of 6MMcu m/d. The water

Images: Audrey Leon/OE injection capacity of each FPSO will be 200,000b/d.

Chevron wins Frade restart

Chevron’s luck in Brazil is beginning to change. The ANP authorized the supermajor to restart production at its troubled Frade feld last month, allowing Chevron to produce from four wells for a period of 12 months.

As OE goes to press, Chevron had not confrmed Frade’s startup date.

Production at the ultra-deepwater

Frade feld, located in the northern

Campos basin, has been suspended since November 2011 when oil seeps were discovered in the area.

Approximately 2400-3700 bbl of oil were spilled into the Atlantic Ocean during the incident.

The green light from ANP comes just months after a Brazilian judge dropped criminal charges against

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