Large Oil Discovery Confirmed in Brazil
. In January 2013, a QGEP official said that the area's wells will likely produce up to 35,000 barrels of oil a day each, a large amount for such offshore fields and similar to that at Petrobras' successful Lula field. The Carcará N well was drilled to a depth of 6,178 meters by Odebrecht Oil & Gas's ODN II drillship. (Reporting by Jeb Blount; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
Ezra Wins $110m Deepwater Brazilian Contract
of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, north of Tupi field. The oil field estimated to contain recoverable resources ranging between eight billion to 12 billion barrels of oil and is one of the largest deepwater oil accumulations globally. OOGTK Libra GmbH & Co KG, a joint venture between Brazil’s Odebrecht Oil & Gas and Teekay Offshore, awarded a contract to Jurong Shipyard for conversion of the Navion Norvegia shuttle tanker to form the Libra EWT FPSO. This joint venture company will own and operate the FPSO, chartering it to Petrobras for twelve years, excluding options. LMC scope of supply
Deltamarin Designs the Libra FPSO
and offloading unit). Deltamarin’s scope of work covers the marine part of the Navion Norvegia shuttle tanker conversion into the Libra FPSO. The conversion shall be performed at the Singaporean Jurong Shipyard, whose customer is OOGTK Libra GmbH & Co KG, a 50/50 joint venture between Odebrecht Oil & Gas and Teekay Offshore. The joint venture company works as the lead commercial bidder for the Brazilian energy company Petrobras on the Libra project. The vessel is expected to be owned and operated by OOGTK and chartered to Petrobras and will serve the Libra presalt field in the ultra-deepwa
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