Albacora Oil and Gas Field

Summary Information

• Operator: Petrobras
• Country: Brazil
• Location: Campos Basin, offshore Brazil
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• Type: Oil / Gas
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Description

• A large deep water field in the Campos Basin, the first giant deepwater field in Brazil
• The Albacora field comprises 65 wells, two production units (semisubmersible P-25 and P-31 FPSO) and seven diverless manifolds (six for oil production and one for water injection).
• The production has reached 150,000 bopd and 90 mmcf/d of natural gas.
• The semisubmersible platform P-25 has a process plant with the capacity of 100,000 bopd and 115 mmcf/d of natural gas.
• There are 14 production wells connected directly to the platform (satellite wells) and 16 wells connected to two diverless production manifolds by a vertical flowline connection system.
• These FMC Technologies manifolds, installed in December 1995 and April 1996, were the world’s deepest subsea production manifolds and multiplex control pods at the time.
• The FPSO P-31 process plant capacity is 200,000 bopd and 130 mmcf/d of gas.
• The plant processes the oil produced in P-25 platform and the oil production of 28 production wells connected to four FMC Technologies production diverless manifolds.

Contractors

• FMC Technologies:
  • Design and construction of permanent internal mooring system for FPSO
  • Subsea trees, production manifolds, control modules & vertical connection modules

History

• 1984 - The Albacora field was discovered
• 2007 - Temporary stoppage due to riser problems

Links

1. Petrobras Albacora
2. Preventive stoppage at Platform P-25