Production of oil and natural gas has started from the Lula North presalt area in Brazil’s Santos basin from Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s (Petrobras) P-67 floating production, storage, and offloading vessel, reported BM-S-11 consortium partner Shell Brasil Petroleo Ltda. The FPSO, which is 260 km off Rio de Janeiro in 2,130 m of water, will produce through nine production wells.
The production hub is the seventh FPSO deployed in Lula field and the third in a series of standardized vessels built for the consortium. It is designed to process as much as 150,000 b/d of oil and 6 million cu m/day of natural gas.
Shell and its partners began production at Lula Extreme South with the P-69 FPSO in October 2018 (OGJ Online, Oct. 24, 2018).
Petrobras is the Lula consortium operator with 65% interest. Shell has 25% interest. Petrogal Brasil holds 10% interest.