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                         “It’s positioned in the centre of the Guyana-Suri-  LNG plant. The gas is needed to feed the thermal
                         name Basin and, ideally, will service all Atlan-  power plant (TPP) that will ensure low-cost and
                         tic-markets and have infrastructure for the   steady supplies of electricity to the port facility
                         sustainable development of world-class facili-  and SEZ, he explained.
                         ties to stimulate not just oil and gas but trade,   Once gas supply arrangements have been
                         agriculture, manufacturing and tourism,” he   settled, he added, PDC and HBS should be able
                         commented. “The idea is to add value to all the   to launch the deepwater port in two years’ time.
                         products in the region and create a cost-effective   “Being a modular design, we can move that fast
                         export route.”                       and get the facility operational,” he said.
                           The project could create as many as 1,000   He continued: “We will be powering it from
                         jobs for local workers, he said.     onshore and we already purchased a Siemens
                           Joslyn noted, though, that PDC and HBS had   gas-fired power plant [of] 420 MW capac-
                         not yet set a start date for construction. The part-  ity. That will operate technology from Baker
                         ners are still waiting to learn when natural and   Hughes, and the technology is modular so we
                         associated gas from offshore fields will be made   would be able to build and expand capacity as
                         available for an associated offshore gas hub and   more gas becomes available.” ™



                                                        BRAZIL
       ANP data show Brazil’s crude oil, natural



       gas output topped 4mn boepd in September






                         BRAZIL’S hydrocarbon production hit 4.048mn   ANP went on to say that offshore fields in the
                         barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in Sep-  pre-salt zone had made up 74.11% of total out-
                         tember 2022, according to data released last   put, or about 3mn boepd. The biggest produc-
                         week by the country’s National Agency of Petro-  ing fields within the pre-salt region were Tupi
                         leum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP).  and Buzios, which yielded 1.16mn boepd and
                           This is only the second time that monthly   676,600 boepd respectively, it said, followed by
                         output has ever topped the 4mn boepd mark.   Sapinhoa, Sepia and Atapu at 256,000 boepd,
                         The last time it did so was in January 2020,   196,700 boepd and 193,600 boepd respectively.
                         shortly before the outbreak of the coronavi-  With respect to crude oil alone, the biggest
                         rus (COVID-19) pandemic, when production   producer was the Tupi field, which yielded
                         totalled 4.041mn boepd.              887,710 bpd in September, the agency stated.
                           The ANP’s data indicated that crude oil   It also identified the production facility with
                         accounted for almost three quarters of total   the highest yields as the Carioca floating pro-
                         production in September, reaching 3.148mn   duction, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel,
                         barrels per day (bpd). The remaining volumes   noting that this unit had handled 196,740 bpd
                         consisted of 143mn cubic metres of associated   of crude oil from its four connected wells last
                         and natural gas.                     month.
























                              FPSO at Buzios, the second largest producing oilfield in the pre-salt zone in September (Photo: Petrobras)



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