Petrobras technological innovation program on deepwater exploitation systems - PROCAP - 2000
- Cidade Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Petrobras has been making important oil strikes in waters deeper than 400 meters in the past few years. This exploratory success is not only mainly reflected by the Albacora (1984) and Marlim (1985) giant fields but also the discoveries of other deepwater fields in the Campos Basin. The reserves in those fields, located in waters of 400 to 1000 meters (classified as deep) and those in depths over 1000 meters (classified as ultra-deep), account for 64% of total reserves in Brazil. The importance of deepwater technology is also stressed by the fact that over 60% of the potential oil discoveries (future new discoveries) will be in deep and ultra-deep waters. These figures demonstrate that the production of its deepwater fields is a vital issue for Brazil. In order to face technological challenge of producing oil in deep waters, Petrobras established a special program named PROCAP, aiming at maximizing the technological capability of the Company on deepwater oil exploitation between 1986 and 1991. The excellent results obtained by that program encouraged Petrobras to create a new one called PROCAP - 2000 (Technological Innovation Program on Deepwater Exploitation Systems), far more daring than the previous one, that intends to change the current way of producing in such water depths. This paper presents the driving forces to go beyond 1000 meters water depth, a review of the first PROCAP and its main results achieved, besides a detailed description of the PROCAP - 2000, including the goals, the strategies and the systemic projects considered essential to boost the development of deep and ultra - deepwater oil and gas production in Brazil.
- OSTI ID:
- 28890
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9407111-; TRN: 95:000928-0005
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: BOSS `94: 7th international conference on the behaviour of offshore structures, Cambridge, MA (United States), 12-15 Jul 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of BOSS `94: Behaviour of offshore structures. Invited papers; Chryssostomidis, C.; Triantafyllou, M.S.; Whittle, A.J.; Hoo Fatt, M.S. [eds.]; PB: 77 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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