Marechal Duque de Caxias, a floating manufacturing, storage, and offloading unit (FPSO) chartered by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Perobras) from MISC, is headed for the Mero subject within the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin offshore Brazil.
The platform will begin working in September and has the capability to provide as much as 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil and compress as much as 12 million cubic meters of fuel per day, the corporate mentioned in a current information launch.
The unit will likely be a part of Mero’s third manufacturing system and can improve the sphere’s put in manufacturing capability to 590,000 bpd of oil. The manufacturing system contains the interconnection of 15 wells to the unit, eight oil producers, and 7 water and fuel injectors utilizing underwater infrastructure, in response to the discharge.
The FPSO platform will likely be interconnected to HISEP tools, which can separate the oil and fuel on the backside of the ocean, from the place it would reinject the carbon dioxide-rich fuel. HISEP is a expertise patented by Petrobras that may probably improve manufacturing and relieve the floor fuel processing plant whereas lowering the depth of greenhouse fuel emissions.
Petrobras famous that the FPSO has different applied sciences for lowering emissions, equivalent to carbon seize, utilization, and storage (CCUS) the place carbon dioxide-rich fuel is reinjected into the reservoir.
“Our focus is on producing responsibly and, on this sense, we have now adopted applied sciences to extend manufacturing effectivity; as well as, we’re continually involved with decarbonization in our actions, with cleaner manufacturing, aspiring to proceed on our path of lowering greenhouse fuel emissions”, Petrobras Director of Exploration and Manufacturing Joelson Mendes mentioned.
Mero is the third largest subject in Brazil by way of quantity of oil in place, behind solely Tupi and Búzios, additionally situated within the pre-salt Santos Basin. Along with the Duque de Caixas FPSO, Petrobras mentioned it would put one other unit into operation in Mero in 2025.
“We’re persevering with with the Mero mission, primarily to ensure the nation’s power safety because the potential of this subject could be very giant and makes it one among Petrobras’ important property, through which we are going to make investments the efforts of our extraordinarily certified technicians”, Petrobras Director of Engineering, Know-how, and Innovation Carlos José Travassos outlined.
FPSO Sepetiba, the second definitive manufacturing system of the Mero subject, got here onstream in December 2023, whereas the primary system FPSO Guanabara got here on-line in April 2023.
Petrobras operates the Mero unitized subject with a 38.6 % stake. Its consortium companions are Shell Brasil, with a 19.3 % stake; TotalEnergies, with 19.3 %; CNOOC with 9.65 %; CNPC with 9.65 %; and Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A. with 3.5 %.
The state-owned firm elevated its 2023 complete oil and pure fuel manufacturing by 3.7 % yr over yr to 2.78 million barrels of oil equal per day (MMboepd). It posted industrial manufacturing of oil and pure fuel at 2.44 MMboed and oil manufacturing at 2.24 million barrels per day. Petrobras additionally achieved an annual file of complete manufacturing of oil and pure fuel within the pre-salt with 2.17 MMboepd, surpassing the earlier file of 1.97 MMboepd in 2022 and representing 78 % of its complete manufacturing, it mentioned in a separate information launch.
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