Brazilian oil and gas firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR), or Petrobras, aims to start pilot production from its mammoth Tupi oil find in October, a company official said Thursday.
Brazilian oil and gas firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR), or Petrobras,
aims to start pilot production from its mammoth Tupi oil find in October, a
company official said Thursday.
The floating storage, production and offloading, or FPSO, vessel has just
passed
Cape Town
in
South
Africa
on its way to
Rio
de Janeiro
, Petrobras engineer Kazuioshi Minami told the Rio
Oil and Gas conference.
The ultra-deep-water Tupi field in the
Santos
basin
was discovered in November 2007, and is estimated to hold recoverable reserves
of between 5 billion and 8 billion barrels of oil equivalent, making it the
largest discovery in the
Americas
since
Mexico
's
Cantarell nearly three decades ago.
Minami said the converted tanker will be connected to five production wells at
Tupi.
Daily production capacity on the FPSO is 100,000 barrels of crude oil and five
million cubic meters of natural gas, he said.
Natural gas will be sent to the Mexilhao platform via a pipeline, and then to
the Brazilian coast, he said.
Longer term, Petrobras is considering building an oil pipeline to transport
crude from the mammoth
Santos
presalt fields to the Brazilian coast, Minami said.
The long-term well test at Tupi will end as the FPSO comes online, he said. The
test lasted for 15 months and is currently producing about 14,000 barrels of
oil per day, Minami said.
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