RIO DE JANEIRO — Petrobras has announced the start-up of the Lula Central production system, with the interconnection of the first production well (8-LL-81D-RJS) to FPSO Cidade de Saquarema, on July 8, and theproduction stabilization at around 30 Mbpd on July 11.
Located in Lula field, Santos basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, this is the tenth large definitive production system operating in the pre-salt layer. The complete scope of the Lula Central project includes 18 wells: 9 production and 9 injection.
FPSO Cidade de Saquarema is capable of processing 150 Mbbl of oil and compressing up to 6 million m3 of gas per day and is anchored at a water depth of 2,120 m. The vessel left the Brasa shipyard in Niterói on May 22 towards the current location, around 300 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. It was converted from a very large crude carrier (VLCC) at the CXG shipyard in China. Nine of its modules were manufactured in Brazil, where work was also completed to integrate them with the processing plant.
Lula Central is the second system to start up this year and will contribute to the company’s production growth. This project is part of the company’s efforts to achieve its annual target of 2.145 MMbopd in Brazil.
This system joins the nine already operating in the pre-salt layer of the Santos and Campos basins, which were responsible for record production in the fields operated by Petrobras in this province (1.24 MMboed) and contributed to the company’s record output of oil and gas in Brazil (2.70 MMboed), as reported to the markets yesterday.
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