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Petrobras FPSO Produces First Oil in Jubarte Field

by Rocky Teodoro|Rigzone Staff | Thursday, October 17, 2024

The Maria Quitéria platform ship of Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) produced its first oil in the Jubarte field, pre-salt in the Espírito Santo portion of the Campos Basin off the southeastern coast of Brazil.

The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit can produce up to 100,000 barrels of oil a day and process up to 5 million cubic meters of gas, Petrobras said in a news release. It will be interconnected to a total of eight producing wells and eight injectors. Initially targeted for 2025, production for FPSO Maria Quitéria started ahead of schedule.

The FPSO is equipped with technologies to reduce emissions with greater operational efficiency and a reduction of around 24 percent in operational greenhouse gas emissions, Petrobras noted. With a height of 156 meters and a length of 333 meters, the FPSO is installed at a water depth of 1,385 meters. It will also have the capacity to generate 100 megawatts (MW) of energy to supply a city of 230,000 inhabitants.

Petrobras is the sole holder of the production rights for the Jubarte field, located in the area known as Parque das Baleias in Espírito Santo.

The Parque das Baleias area is made up of the Jubarte, Baleia Anã, Cachalote, Caxaréu, Pirambú and Mangangá fields. The first field, Jubarte, was discovered in 2001. In 2019, Petrobras and the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) signed an agreement to extend the concession period until 2056 for the new unified Jubarte field. This enabled the implementation of FPSO Maria Quitéria, the latest production system for the Parque das Baleias Integrated Project, as well as complementary projects in the area, according to the release.

Three other platforms operate in Parque das Baleias: P-57, P-58, and FPSO Cidade de Anchieta. When Maria Quitéria starts operating at full load, this unit will account for around 40 percent of the field's production, Petrobras said.

The Jubarte field was also the site of a pilot project by the Brazilian oil major to increase production. In August, it validated technology that could increase production by roughly one percent.

The Lift and Flow Digital Twin technology developed by the Brazilian company ESSS was validated and is ready for use after two years of testing, Petrobras said in an earlier news release.

The company’s Cidade de Anchieta and P-57 FPSO platforms, operating in the Jubarte field in the Espírito Santo state’s pre-salt and post-salt layers, participated in the pilot project that demonstrated the effectiveness of the tool.

The technology provides real-time production system data, boosting the lift and flow process, which corresponds to carrying the oil produced from the bottom of the wells to the production platforms. The digital twin can also preempt incidents that may compromise production and enable solution virtual testing, according to the release.

According to Petrobras' Exploitation and Production Director Sylvia Anjos, “the Lift and Flow Digital Twin technology can be used in all Petrobras' offshore production and injection wells. We’ll start using the tools in maritime wells of other units no later than this year”.

“Petrobras devised a Digital Twin prototype that formed the basis to specify the technology. This preliminary solution was born in the Espírito Santo Business Unit (UN-ES). We needed to develop a similar but more robust, commercial, sustained, and scalable system for the company’s offshore wells,” Renata Baruzzi, Petrobras engineer, said.

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Libra Consortium announces first oil at third FPSO in Brazil pre-salt

le 01/11/2024

Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. (Shell Brasil), a subsidiary of Shell plc, announced the start of production of the floating production storage and offloading facility (FPSO) Marechal Duque de Caxias in the Mero field, in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Also known as Mero-3, the FPSO has an operational capacity of 180,000 barrels of oil per day. (Shell share 19.3%)

“Mero-3 demonstrates our commitment to increasingly efficient and competitive projects,” said Zoë Yujnovich, Shell’s Integrated Gas and Upstream Director. “Brazil is a material contributor to Shell’s deep-water oil and gas production, and through our ongoing partnership with Petrobras in the Mero field, we can help continue to deliver safe and secure energy from one of the country’s most productive fields.”

The FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias is located 200 kilometres from the coast of Rio de Janeiro in a water depth of 2,200 metres. Its predecessor, the FPSO Sepetiba (Mero-2), announced first production in December 2023. The FPSO Guanabara (Mero-1) started production in May 2022.


Final Investment Decision on Mero-3 was announced in August 2020.

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Shell greenlights Gato do Mato project in Brazil’s Santos Basin
The Gato do Mato project, which is expected to begin production in 2029, will feature an FPSO vessel with a capacity of 120,000 barrels per day

Swagath Bandhakavi 24th Mar 2025

Shell, through its subsidiary, Shell Brasil Petróleo (Shell Brasil), has sanctioned the Gato do Mato gas-condensate project in Brazil’s pre-salt Santos Basin.

The final investment decision (FID) allows Shell and its partners to advance the deep-water development towards production.

Shell is the operator of the Gato do Mato consortium with a 50% stake. Its partners include Ecopetrol (30%) and TotalEnergies (20%).

Pré-Sal Petróleo (PPSA) oversees the production-sharing contract.

The Gato do Mato project will include a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, designed to handle up to 120,000 barrels of oil per day. The estimated recoverable resource volume for the development is around 370 million barrels.

Production from the offshore Brazilian project is expected to begin in 2029.

The field spans two adjoining blocks, which are BM-S-54, secured under a concession contract in 2005, and Sul de Gato do Mato, acquired through a production-sharing agreement in 2017.

The site is located in waters between 1,750 and 2,050m deep, near the Rio de Janeiro coastline. Initially, natural gas will be reinjected into the reservoir to maintain pressure, with the option of future exports to onshore processing facilities.

Shell expects the investment to generate an internal rate of return above the required threshold for its upstream business.

The resource estimates fall under the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Petroleum Resources Classification System at a P50 level, meaning there is an equal probability of actual recoverable volumes being higher or lower than forecasted.

Shell integrated gas and upstream director Zoë Yujnovich said: “Gato do Mato is an example of our ongoing investment in increasingly efficient projects.

“The project contributes to maintaining stable liquids production from our advantaged Upstream business, and expands our leadership as the largest foreign producer in Brazil as we continue working to provide for the world’s energy needs well into the future.”

MODEC was previously awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the FPSO unit supporting the project. The company will design the hull and topsides facilities, with the vessel to be anchored using a SOFEC Spread Mooring system at a depth of approximately 2,000m, about 250km offshore. The FPSO will store stabilised crude oil before it is transported to market using shuttle tankers.

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