Fossil Energy – FPSO
After leaving the Benoi shipyard in Singapore on July 13th, the FPSO P-78 arrived Tuesday, September 30th, at the Búzios Field in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin.
The unit will now connect to the wells to start production soon.
The Búzios Field is located in ultra-deep waters of the Santos Basin at depths of up to 2,100 meters, 180 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state.
The Búzios 6 project involves 13 wells: 6 producers (with 2 convertible to injectors), 6 Water Alternating Gas (WAG) injectors, and 1 gas injector. The unit will be interlinked with rigid pipelines for production, injection, and gas export, as well as flexible pipelines for service lines and gas lift.
The FPSO P-78 is the seventh unit planned for the field and will join six other platforms currently in operation: FPSOs P-74, P-75, P-76, P-77, Almirante Barroso, and Almirante Tamandaré. The P-78 has a production capacity of 180,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd), in addition to compressing 7.2 million cubic meters (m3) of gas daily.
