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Búzios (centre) is in the pre-salt section of the Santos basin (Image: Petrobras)
For its part, Keppel said it intended to fabricate It has also arranged to buy and install two more
the topside modules of the P-78 FPSO and carry – the P-79 and P-80 vessels, which are now in the
out integration and commissioning work at its contracting process – in addition to P-78.
shipyards in Brazil, China and Singapore. The Búzios field was discovered in 2010 and
The vessel’s 85,000-tonne hull and living came on stream in 2018. It contains more than
quarters module, which will house 240 peo- 3bn barrels of oil equivalent and may see output
ple, will come from Hyundai Heavy Industries rise to 2mn boe per day (boepd) by the end of
(South Korea). this decade. This would make it Petrobras’ single
Petrobras has four working FPSOs at Búzios. most productive asset. ™

PERU
PetroTal expects Bretaña field to

yield 18,000-19,000 bpd by year-end

PETROTAL (Canada) expects production lev-
els at Bretaña, its flagship oilfield in Peru, to rise
to at least 18,000 barrels per day by the end of
this year. Yields currently stand at around 11,100
bpd but are on track to reach 18,000-19,000 bpd
in late December, the independent company
said in an operational update published earlier
this week.
In the update, the company explained that
output at Bretaña was slated to rise following
the recent completion of a seventh development
well at the field. It identified the well as 7D and
said it had sunk the shaft along a deviated path to
a total depth of 2,696 metres over a period of 33
days. The cost of drilling came to about $8.6mn,
7% below the original estimate of $7.2mn, it
said. The Bretaña oilfield is part of Block 95 (Image: PetroTal)
The 7D well yielded some 3,700 bpd of oil
on average during its first 10 days in operation, protocols, and no safety issues were encountered
PetroTal said. Since then, yields have climbed to during the operation,” it added.
4,550 bpd, it stated. The company went on to say that it was
“This was the first well executed under Petro- already at work on another well at the Bretaña
Tal’s enhanced COVID-19 [coronavirus] safety field – 3WD, a water disposal well..

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