巴西石油宣布Libra FPSO计划

Brazil’s Petrobras has unveiled plans to install four large floating production, storage and offloading vessels at the giant Libra field in the Santos basin pre-salt province by 2023, as it looks to speed up development in the prolific carbonate play.Fernando Borges, Petrobras executive manager for the Libra project, said all four FPSOs will be deployed in the north-western section of the field.Production is expected to begin with the Libra pilot FPSO.The Libra pilot will be followed by the Libra 2 FPSO, due to start production in June 2021. At the panel, Borges announced that Petrobras also intends to have another two units at Libra NW early next decade, including one in 2022 and another in 2023.The Libra 2 floater will be similar in size with the Libra pilot FPSO, but Borges made no mention to the potential processing capacity of Libra 3 and Libra 4.Both the Libra pilot and Libra 2 FPSOs will have a total of 17 development wells each, including eight oil producers and nine injectors.Before commercial production begins in 2020, Petrobras will run a series of extended well tests in the north-west section of the Libra reservoir.