Brazil

Nov. 25, 2009
Petroleo Brasileiro SA has towed out the platform jacket for Mexilhao gas field for setup in the northern Santos basin off Brazil.

By OGJ editors
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 25
– Petroleo Brasileiro SA has towed out the platform jacket for Mexilhao gas field for setup in the northern Santos basin off Brazil.

The 182 m tall jacket left a fabrication yard in the Niteroi borough of Rio de Janeiro on the morning of Nov. 19 for the 140-km tow to the field location off Sao Paulo state. Mexilhao is expected to go on production in 2010.

Mexilhao is Brazil’s largest fixed gas platform. Production capacity is 530 MMcfd of gas through a pipeline with landfall at Caraguatatuba, where the Monteiro Lobato gas treatment plant is under construction. The plant will also handle gas from Urugua and Tambau fields off Rio de Janeiro and from the Tupi field pilot in the Santos basin.