Búzios’ latest and seventh manufacturing platform has gone onstream, elevating the Brazilian offshore discipline’s capability to about 1.15 million barrels of oil a day, state-controlled Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) stated.
The most recent growth, Buzios6, is designed to provide as much as 180,000 barrels of oil per day and seven.2 million cubic meters (254.27 million cubic toes) of gasoline per day by the P-78 floating manufacturing, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, in accordance with Petrobras. Buzios7 is the sixth growth within the discipline to enter manufacturing, within the first quarter of 2024.
“Moreover, this challenge [Buzios6] will permit for the export of gasoline to the mainland through interconnection with the ROTA 3 gasoline pipeline, increasing Brazil’s gasoline provide by as much as three million m3 per day”, Petrobras stated in a web based assertion.
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Petrobras president Magda Chambriard stated, “We plan to provide 2.5 million barrels of oil per day all through this 12 months, and far of it is going to come from Búzios, the nation’s largest discipline by way of reserves and manufacturing”.
Petrobras famous, “The P-78 is an FPSO unit inaugurating a brand new household of proprietary unit initiatives. The platform was conceived by the PBRef (Fundamental Reference Venture), which consolidated lots of of classes realized from the primary models in operation within the pre-salt layer [of the Santos basin], bringing even larger security and reliability to operations”.
“Moreover, the FPSO underwent modifications in its contracting, development and meeting technique by the FORTALECE Program (PROFORT), which established the contractual mannequin, technical high quality and effectivity necessities for the shipyards that constructed it, going past the native content material established for the sector”, it added. “The platform contract stipulates a minimal dedication of 25 p.c native content material. Ten topside modules, out of a complete of 23, had been constructed on the BrasFELS shipyard, positioned in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro.
“The platform is provided with applied sciences for decreasing emissions and rising operational effectivity, notably the exhaust gasoline restoration system, the adoption of variable pace drives in pumps and compressors, and vitality integrations between cold and hot streams in oil and gasoline processing”.
Buzios6 includes six manufacturing wells and 7 injection wells.
Búzios, found 2010, is 180 kilometers (111.85 miles) off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in waters over 2,000 meters (6,561.68 toes) deep within the Santos basin, in accordance with Petrobras.
Petrobras operates Búzios with an 88.99 p.c stake. CNOOC Ltd owns 7.34 p.c by CNOOC Petroleum Brasil Ltda. CNODC Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda holds 3.67 p.c.
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