Declaration of Commerciality for Brazilian oil field Peregrino
(March 15, 2007) Hydro announced today that the Declaration of Commeciality for the Peregrino oil field in Brazil was submitted to the Agência Nacional do Petróleo (ANP) in Rio de Janeiro.
 HANDOVER: From left, Kurt McCaslin, director of Kerr-McGee/Anadarko, Newton Monteiro, director of ANP, and Kjetil Solbrække, head of Hydro's Brazil business unit. |
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“The project is now moving forward, and the partnership intends to sanction the development by the end of this month,” says Kjetil Solbrække, head of Hydro Óleo & Gás, Brazil.
The Peregrino field is located 85 kilometers offshore Brazil in about 100 meters of water. The recoverable resources are estimated at between 300 million and 600 million barrels of heavy oil.
The field will be developed with an FPSO vessel (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) and two drilling platforms. There will be 30 horizontal production wells and seven water injection wells.
Production start up is planned for 2010.
On 12 March development of the Peregrino project was approved by Hydro's Corporate Management and Board of Directors.
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Hydro (operator during the project planning phase) - 50%
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Anadarko (operator during the project execution and operation phases) - 50%
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