A new platform ship (FPSO) has left shipyard in Yantai, China, towards the Mero oil field in Brazil, according to Petrobras, operator of the area in the Santos Basin pre-salt, co-owned by China’s CNPC and CNOC.
According to Petrobras, the Marechal Duque de Caxias FPSO, chartered by Petrobras with MISC, will be part of the third final production system of Mero and will increase the installed production capacity of the field to 590 thousand barrels daily of oil.
The production system provides for the interconnection of 15 wells to the unit, eight oil producers and seven water and gas injectors, through an underwater infrastructure consisting of 80 km of rigid production and injection pipelines, 47 km of flexible service pipelins and 44 km of control umbilicals.
New FPSO Arrives at Brazil´s Mero Oil Field Co-Owned by China´s CNPC and CNOC
The platform will enter into operation in September, the Brazilian state company said. It has the capacity to produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil and compress up to 12 million cubic meters of gas per day.
Petrobras stated that the FPSO platform will be interconnected to the HISEP equipment, which will do the separation of oil and gas at the bottom of the ocean, from where it will make the reinjection of CO2 rich gas.
Mero is the third largest field in Brazil in volume of oil, behind only Tupi and Búzios, also located in the pre-salt of Santos.
FPSO gears up for production in Brazilian oil field co-owned by China’s CNPC and CNOC
Petrobras also plans to put another unit in Mero into operation by 2025.
The operations of the unified field of Mero are conducted by the Consortium operated by Petrobras (38.6%), in partnership with Shell Brazil (19.3%), TotalEnergies (19,3%), CNOOC (9.65%), CNPC (9,65%) and Pre-Sal Petróleo S.A (PPSA) (3,5%).
