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Peregrino FPSO Peregrino.

Photo courtesy of Øyvind Hagen / Statoil.

hile pre-salt has become topic du jour with regards

Latin America

W to Brazil’s offshore resource wealth potential, there is one feld still capable of drawing attention away from pre-salt-flled eyes, the massive heavy oil

Peregrino project operated by Norwegian . giant Statoil

Identifed by Statoil as the com- pany’s largest internationally oper- ated feld, Peregrino is located 85km (53mi) off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in the 115,000km (71,457mi) Southern

Campos Basin area.

Peregrino, originally discovered by

Petrobras in 1994, produces 100,000 bo/d from 22 producers and three water injector wells. Thirty-seven (30 horizontal producers and seven water injectors) wells are planned. Estimated recoverable resources hand somewhere between 300-600 MMbo. “The [focus] of the core business of

Statoil in Brazil is Peregrino,” Statoil

Brazil Country President Thore E.

Kristiansen said from Statoil’s Rio de

Janeiro offces.

Peregrino is in Phase I production and is expected to produce until 2034.

Platforms Peregrino A and B are tied back to the foating production, stor- age and off-take unit (FPSO) Peregrino, which has a storage capacity of 1.6

MMbo and produced more than 50

MMbo since achieving frst oil in April 2011.  “It’s a signifcant feld by any stan- dards. We believe there are 2.5 billion bo in place where we are currently operat- ing,” Kristiansen said, adding that a newer discovery in the area, Peregrino

South “is maturing.”

At a recent technology briefng Statoil

Norwegian held in its Houston offce, three Statoil executives discussed the company’s focus on specifc and specialized techno- logical solutions. know-how

Statoil places a heavy emphasis on increased oil recovery (IOR), mostly

The Statoil-operated Peregrino feld, one of developed in the Norwegian Continental

Shelf [NCS] and deployed elsewhere, to

Brazil’s most signifcant ofshore producers, boost production at the feld.

In Houston, Lars Høier, senior vice is a wealth of resources, including Norwegian- president, TPD research, development developed technology.

Sarah Parker Musarra and innovation referred to the NCS as “[Statoil’s] laboratory.

chatted with Statoil Brazil Country President “By applying our technology [devel-

Thore E. Kristiansen.

oped in the NCS], we thought we could

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