Brazil’s Petrobras has begun production on the platform P-61 in Papa Terra field, which is located near the southern perimeter of the Campos Basin (State of Rio de Janeiro), approximately 110 kilometers off the coast of Brazil.
Moored in waters 1,200 metres deep, the P-61 completes the production system for the Papa Terra field, operating alongside the P-63 FPSO (floating production storage and offloading), commissioned on November 11, 2013. Thirteen production wells will be connected to the P-61, and the well currently in operation is the PPT-16. Five production and six injection wells are interconnected to the P-63, and a further five injection wells will be added.
The P-61 Tension Leg Wellhead Platform (TLWP) is connected to a Tender Assisted Drilling Platform and is equipped with a drilling and well completion rig. This is the first time a platform of this type has been used in Brazil. P-61 is connected to dry completion wells, which means that the well control valves are onboard the platform and not on the seabed.
With reservoirs containing 14 to 17 API crude at considerable water depth, developing the Papa-Terra field has been a challenging project for Petrobras, requiring many different innovative solutions.