By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 24 -- Statoil ASA installed the topsides on two platform jackets in the Peregrino heavy oil field off Brazil.
The Hermod heavy vessel lifted the topsides onto the two jackets installed in the field last year. Statoil said development well drilling will commence later this year after the completion of the hook up.
Statoil's development plan calls for the drilling of 30 horizontal production and 7 water injection wells.
The company expects Peregrino field’s floating production, storage, and offloading vessel to arrive in the field for hook up and commissioning this year. Maersk is building the FPSO at the Keppel shipyard in Singapore.
The offshore construction vessel Boa Deep C installed the FPSO’s mooring systems earlier this year.
Peregrino field lies in 100 m of water in the Campos basin, 85 km off Brazil.
Statoil expects first oil from the field in 2011 with production continuing until 2040. The company's estimate is that the field will recover about 500 million bbl of heavy oil, excluding potential upsides. Its planned plateau production is 100,000 bo/d.
Statoil has a 100% working interest in the field.
