Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) reported that Sepetiba, a platform ship that it chartered, has reached high manufacturing.
The floating manufacturing storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Sepetiba attained manufacturing of 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil within the Mero discipline, within the Santos Basin’s pre-salt layer, Petrobras mentioned in a information launch. The milestone was reached inside the estimated time-frame of eight months because of the promptness of the unit’s oil therapy and gasoline compression methods, together with the great productiveness of the nicely within the Mero Basin, the corporate famous.
The undersea interconnection course of additionally helped Sepetiba attain high manufacturing since one hundred pc of the wells had been interconnected upfront, round 5 months earlier than contractual milestones. Petrobras mentioned its technicians diminished the time of the exercise by 18 %, consequently dashing up the FPSO’s gradual enhance in oil manufacturing.
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The FPSO Sepetiba was chartered from SBM Offshore and have become operational on December 31, 2023. The platform lies roughly 111.8 miles (180 kilometers) off the Rio de Janeiro coast, anchored at a depth of two,000 meters. In response to SBM, it has a storage capability of 1.4 million barrels of oil.
The FPSO is fitted out with revolutionary applied sciences that purpose to extend effectivity and decarbonize actions equivalent to CCUS (carbon seize, utilization, and storage), the place the carbon dioxide-rich gasoline is reinjected into the reservoir, driving down greenhouse gasoline emissions into the environment, in keeping with the discharge.
Petrobras mentioned the Mero discipline now exceeds manufacturing of 410,000 bpd of oil. Mero is a unitized discipline, operated by Petrobras with a 38.6 % curiosity, whereas TotalEnergies and Shell every maintain 19.3 %. The opposite companions are China Nationwide Petroleum Corp. and China Nationwide Offshore Oil Corp. with a 9.65 % stake every, in addition to PPSA (3.5 %). Mero is the third largest discipline in Brazil by way of quantity of oil in place, behind solely Tupi and Búzios, additionally positioned within the pre-salt Santos Basin.
In February, Petrobras introduced that the FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias, chartered from MISC, was headed for the Mero discipline 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 bpd of oil and compress as much as 12 million cubic meters of gasoline per day, the corporate mentioned in an earlier information launch. The unit will likely be a part of Mero’s third manufacturing system and consists of the interconnection of 15 wells to the unit, eight oil producers, and 7 water and gasoline injectors utilizing underwater infrastructure.
The FPSO platform will likely be interconnected to HISEP gear, which can separate the oil and gasoline on the backside of the ocean, from the place it’ll reinject the carbon dioxide-rich gasoline. HISEP is a know-how patented by Petrobras that may probably enhance manufacturing and relieve the floor gasoline processing plant whereas lowering the depth of greenhouse gasoline emissions.
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