Operation activities for the Development of Production and Flow of Lula Extremo Sul authorized through FPSO P-69, of the Santos Basin Pre-Salt Pole

It is cleared for the FPSO P-69 vessel to produce in the Santos Basin pre-salt. IBAMA granted the Operating License for the unit, which had been allocated in the Extreme South module of the Lula field. According to Petrobras, the platform should start operating later this quarter.

The license released by IBAMA has 35 reservations for operation, including projects to monitor aquatic mammals such as whales and dolphins, the impact of platforms and vessels on the avifauna in the Santos Basin, fishing activities, beaches, an environmental education project including workers in this didactic among other conditions. The entity also defined the development of a project to control pollution.

With the capacity to process 150 barrels of oil and 6 million cubic meters of gas daily, the platform has a structure capable of storing 1,6 million barrels of oil and will operate at a depth of 2.200 meters. The ship is 288 meters long, 54 meters wide and 31,5 meters high and was built at the Cosco shipyard in Zhoushan, China.

This “Pre-salt Stage 2”, as it is called, is carried out in a regional licensing process, which covers seven Early Production Systems (SPA), 13 structures for production development, 15 gas pipeline stretches and among them the P -69.

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