Out with the old FPSO after 8 years, in with the brand-new one at oil field overseas Brazil

A drifting production, storage, and unloading (FPSO) vessel is leaving an oil field off the coast of Brazil after costs 8 years there, as another system prepares to take its location assoonas the field’s operator, Brava Energia, previous 3R Petroleum before the merger with Enauta, gets the staying requirements out of the method.

The Brazilian energy company’s activities to change the FPSO Petrojarl I, which worked at the Atlanta field in block BS-4 in the Santos Basin because 2018, with the FPSO Atlanta, bought for Atlanta’s Full Development System (FDS) in 2022, are now nearly over.

Following the naming event held at the Dubai Drydocks World shipyard in December 2023, the FPSO reached Brazil in May 2024, makingitpossiblefor the start of activities to connect it to the wells at the field. With 19 out of 20 anchor setups finished, activities to link the veryfirst 2 wells to the FPSO Atlanta were initially preparedfor in June 2024.

Previously, all operations were to be covered up to allow the veryfirst oil from the FPSO Atlanta in August 2024, atfirst with 6 wells online, reaching 10 wells in2029 However, the operator of the Atlanta field stated in July 2024 that the production start-up could be impacted by the revealed strike of regulative firms’ workers.

As part of the production transfer to the FPSO Atlanta, well #4 was detached in early October, leading to the firm’s average production decrease. At the end of the month, production through the FPSO Petrojarl stopped and well #5 was closed, starting the system’s decommissioning procedure. OneSubsea setup the veryfirst multiphase pump (MPP) station at the Atlanta field ahead of schedule, with the extra 2 finished within a week of each other.

On the regulative front, Brava Energia validates that the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels (ANP) arranged the measurement system assessment for the FPSO Atlanta in the last week of November2024 As a result, the company strategies to total the submission of other conditions needed by ANP for the start of operations of the FPSO by the end of November 2024.

The FPSO Atlanta can shop 1.6 million barrels of oil (boe) and procedure 50,000 boe and 140,000 barrels of water per day. Chartered and ran by Malaysia’s Yinson Production, the vessel will stay on the Brazilian field for 15 years. Brava Energia can likewise extend its stay more thanks to a five-year optional duration.

Meanwhile, the firm stopped production at the Papa-Terra oil field in the Campos basin off the coast of Brazil a coupleof months earlier. Since then, ANP licensed an boost in the number of individuals on board the drifting systems, consistingof FPSO and the stress leg wellhead platform (TLWP), and approved permission for the operation of the rig setup on the TLWP in October 2024.

Afterward, upkeep and stability healing activities acquired speed, with production resumption anticipated in December2024 Additionally, the workover for pump replacement on well PPT-051 has resumed with the rig’s approval. This follows Constellation’s agreement to sublet the Alpha Star rig for 30 days throughout the continuous agreement with Brava Energia.

Regarding the Brazilian firm’s Parque das Conchas acquisition, allowed by an contract to get a 23% stake in the possession held by QatarEnergy, the procedure is now in the last approval phase. The average production for the possession in 2024, c