voda schreef op 23 maart 2013 16:00:
Petrobras aims to triple Brazil offshore oil output
Gulf News reported that Brazil’s state run energy giant Petrobras aims to triple oil production from its huge deep water fields by 2017. By that date, the company plans to extract 962,500 barrels a day more than three times the current 300,000.
Mr Graca Foster president of Petrobas said that “The company’s top priority is exploration and production. We need to drill for oil to obtain the exceptional results expected in 2017: 3.4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day including crude oil and natural gas production. That’s 1 million more than what we had in 2012. Excluding natural gas, crude oil output in 2017 would be 2.75 million barrels a day up from 1.98 million in 2012.”
Mr Foster said that by 2020, production will reach 4.2 million barrels per day and that 52% would come from the so called pre salt reserves, located at a depth of 6,000 meters under a thick layer of salt off southeastern Brazil. Last year, the country produced an average of 1.9 million barrels per day.
Output from the pre salt reserves, discovered in 2007 off southeastern Brazil and estimated to hold up to 100 billion barrels of crude reached a record 214,000 barrels per day on December 27. This represents only seven percent of the average annual crude output in Brazil.
To reach its 2017 production target, Petrobras will invest USD 147 billion in exploration and production or 62% of the total USD 236.7 billion called for in the 5 year plan.
Source – Gulf News