Iracema Sul News

Petrobras Starts production in Santos Basin

peaked to over a billion barrels of pre-salt crude. This was achieved by bringing ten high-output systems onstream in only six years, including the Lula Pilot (FPSO Cidade de Angra dos Reis), Sapinhoá Pilot (FPSO Cidade de São Paulo), Lula Nordeste Pilot (FPSO Cidade de Paraty), Lula/Iracema Sul (FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba), Sapinhoá Norte (FPSO Cidade de Ilhabela), Lula/Iracema Norte (FPSO Cidade de Itaguaí), Lula Alto (FPSO Cidade de Maricá), Lula Central (FPSO Cidade de Saquarema), as well as FPSO Cidade de Anchieta and P-58, both in Parque das Baleias. Pre-salt

Production Begins at Santos Basin Pre-salt Iracema Sul

Petrobras announced that platform Cidade de Mangaratiba went into operation today at the Santos Basin pre-salt area of Iracema Sul, in Lula field, located on block BM-S-11. The start-up of the new platform was anticipated since the original expected start-up, as provided for in the 2014-2018 Business & Management Plan, had been scheduled for November 6, 2014. The platform Cidade de Mangaratiba is an FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) type unit and it was contracted in September 2011 from the Schahin-Modec consortium. The hull of the FPSO was converted at the Cosco shipyard

Saipem: A Fleet Grows in Brazil

Guara’s FPSO to a subsea gathering manifold in the Lula field; the second 18-inch line, will be 22 km (13.6 miles) long and will connect the Lula-Northeast FPSO to the same manifold in the Lula field. Saipem has also been awarded an EPCI contract by Petrobras for the Sapinhoá Norte and Iracema Sul Project, to be developed in the Santos Basin pre-salt, approximately 300 km (186 miles) off the coasts of the Rio de Janeiro, in this project the scope of work includes engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of two offshore pipelines, with related terminations (PLETs) to be installed

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Petrobras Pre-salt Reserves Up 43% in 2013

be connected to platforms already installed in the Pre-Salt Santos Basin hub. In the second half of 2014, two new platforms will come on stream in the Pre-salt Hub in the Santos Basin: the Cidade de Ilhabela platform in the Sapinhoá Norte field, and the Cidade de Mangaratiba platform in the Iracema Sul field will increase daily production capacity by 300,000 barrels of oil per day in the Pre-salt Hub in the Santos Basin. These two new platforms will be connected to another five new wells in 2014. With the two new platforms (Cidade de Ilhabela and Cidade de Mangaratiba) coming on stream and

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