Barracuda Oil Field
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Summary Information
- Operator: Petrobras
- Country: Brazil
- Location: 100 km from the coast of Rio de Janeiro in the Campos Basin
- Production start: 2005
- Partners:
- Type: Oil / Gas
- Estimated Reserves:
- Production Volume:
Description
- The field utilises the Barracuda P 43 FPSO, which has capacity to produce 150,000 barrels per day of oil plus gas compression capacity of 6 million m3/d
Contractors
- KBR: Lump Sum EPC contract
- Jurong Shipyard:
- FPSO conversion
- Fabrication of topside production modules
- Integration of the Barracuda topside production modules with its newly-converted hull
History
- 1989 - Barracuda Oil Field discovered
- 2005 - Production commences on the Barracuda Oil Field
- 2012 - A flaw in a pipe caused the leak 5m ³ of oil into the sea
Geology
Links
- Jurong Shipyard secured a US$80 million FPSO conversion project
- Jurong Shipyard's Brazillian Joint Venture Secures First Contract Of S$270 Million
- Halliburton Announces Significant Achievement in Barracuda-Caratinga Project
- Leak in Barracuda Field
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