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Brazil

Petrobras propels forward with new platforms

Petrobras’ demanding newbuild platform schedule proves that the Brazilian giant believes that presalt production shows no sign of slowing down.

Peter Howard Wertheim delves into the details of Petrobras’ plethora of platforms coming online between now and 2020.

etween 2013 and 2017, 25 platforms are scheduled to come

B onstream while 38 new units will start producing oil and gas in the period ranging from 2013 to 2020, said Petrobras director for Exploration and Production,

Map of major ? eld projects in Campos and Santos basins, Brazil.

José Formigli, who added that “very few companies in the world have such

FPSO P-58 a demand for new units. That is because ? eld in Block BM-S-9 began in January , completed in 2013, is they do not have the portfolio we have,” 2013. scheduled to come onstream 1Q 2014

FPSO Cidade Itajaí highlighting the 100% exploration is operating at at North Parque das Baleias, Campos success rate in the massive oil and gas the Baúna site, also in the Santos basin, basin. The unit’s processing capacity reserves in the presalt. with 80,000bo/d and 2 MMcu.m/d of gas is of 180,000bo/d and 6 MMcu.m/d of

Formigli says that Petrobras is processing capacity. gas. The P-58 is located about 85 km

FPSO Cidade Paraty working to reach by 2016 an output of , operating at off the Espírito Santo state coast, in 2.5MMb/d from the present 2 MMb/d. the Pilot project Lula NE, Santos basin, 1400m of water. It will be connected

By 2017, the volume should rise to 2.75 processing 120,000bo/d and 5 MMcu.m/d to 15 production wells, of which eight million and, in 2020, to 4.2 million. of natural gas. are pre-salt and seven are post-salt,

FPSO P-63

Production in barrels of oil equivalent is operating at Papa-Terra and with 9 injection wells in the Baleia (oil and gas, boe) is expected to reach ? eld, Campos basin, with processing Franca, Cachalote, Jubarte, Baleia Azul, 3 MMboe in 2016, 3.4 MMboe in 2017, capacity of 140,000bo/d and and Baleia Anã ? elds. This will require and 5.2 MMboe in 2020. 1 MMcu. m/d gas. Wells will be con- about 250km of ? exible pipe and two

He adds that the presalt will play an nected to P-63 using ? exible subsea pipes underwater manifolds (to transfer the oil increasing role in that growth in produc- with electric heating. from the wells to the platform). The oil

P-55 tion. The 1 MMb/d mark at the presalt The semisubmersible at will be pumped into tankers, and natural will be surpassed in 2017, when it will Roncador III, Campos basin, has a gas sent by pipeline to the Cacimbas Gas account for 42% of the country’s produc- processing capacity of 180,000bo/d Treatment Unit, in Linhares, Espírito tion and reach 2.1 MMb/d in 2020. At and