Pao de Acucar - Seat and Gavea Oil and Gas Fields

Summary Information

• Operator: Equinor
• Country: Brazil
• Location: BM-C-33 block of the Campos Basin
• Production start: Expected 2028
• Partners: Equinor 35 % (operator), Repsol Sinopec Brasil 35 %, Petrobras 30%
• Type: Oil / Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

Description

• Located in the Campos Basin, BM-C-33 comprises three different pre-salt discoveries – Pão de Açúcar, Gávea and Seat – containing natural gas and oil/condensate recoverable reserves above one billion barrels of oil equivalent.
• The fields will utilise the BM C 33 FPSO which will have topsides designed to produce approximately 125,000 barrels of crude oil per day as well as produce and export approximately 565 million standard cubic feet of associated gas per day. Its minimum storage capacity of crude oil will be 2,000,000 barrels.
• The sales gas is planned to be exported through a 200 kilometres offshore gas pipeline from the FPSO to Cabiúnas, in the city of Macaé, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Contractors

• Modec: FEED and EPCI for FPSO
• TechnipFMC: Subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF), integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation

History

• 2010 - Fields discovered by Repsol Sinopec
• 2016 - Equinor became operator
• 2022 - FEED contracts awarded
• 2023 - Final investment decision and EPCI contracts awarded

Links

1. Equinor and partners announce final investment decision for BM-C-33, in Brazil
2. MODEC Awarded Contract by Equinor to Supply the 2nd FPSO in Brazil
3. Equinor awards two major contracts for the BM-C-33 project in Brazil