Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Petrobras has started production at the fifth FPSO over the giant Búzios Field in the deepwater presalt Santos Basin offshore Brazil.
The Almirante Barroso platform, engineered by and chartered from by MODEC and built at a Chinese shipyard, has capacity to produce up to 150,000 bbl/d of oil and 6 MMcm/d of gas and inject 220,000 bbl/d of water.
Búzios currently averages 560,000 bbl/d, equivalent to about 17% of Brazil’s national production. By 2025, when the latest floater should be close to its maximum capacity and other platforms have arrived, the field's production should approach 700,000 bbl/d, according to Petrobras CEO Jean Paul Prates.
FPSO Almirante Barroso is stationed 180 km from the coast of Rio de Janeiro in 1,900 m water depth. The previous four platforms are the P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77 units.
A further six are under construction (FPSO Almirante Tamandaré, P-78, P-79, P-80, P-82 and P-83). Petrobras operates the Búzios shared reservoir development with an 88.99% stake, the remainder held by CNOOC and CNODC.
According to CNOOC, five producer wells and five injectors are currently online and connected to the newly onstream platform. This is also the first to enter production after the company came onboard the development.
06.01.2023
