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the aquifer strength. In order to answer the main questions, energy flows close to source areas or long-distance confined
PETROBRAS has decided to start an Extended Well Test, gravity flows with high capacity of sediment transportation.
beginning in October 2002. The excellent well productivity Based in composition, texture, sedimentary structure and
results, 16,500 bpd by natural flow, made PETROBRAS issue geometry, the flows have been interpreted as high-density
the declaration of commerciality of Jubarte Field in December hiperpicnal flows, whereby texturally and compositionally
2002 and the phased-approach Field Development Plan as immature sediments were transferred from shallow water into
follows: deep-water settings by high-density, highly concentrated and
• Production Pilot - DP FPSO Seillean; tractive gravity flows (quasisteady currents). Catastrophic
• Phase I - Early Production System - FPSO P-34; floods probably triggered major gravity flow events allowing
• Phase II – Definitive Production System - FPSO P-57. highland rivers to deliver large amounts of sediments directly
The Pilot phase started in December 2002 and finished 3 to coastal areas. A general overview of the Jubarte reservoir
years later, while the Phase I started in December 2006 and is showing exploratory wells is presented on Figure 3.
predicted to finish in 2011.
The Phase II is planned to start production in 2011. More
details can be obtained from Table 1 below.
Table 3 – Information gathered from EWT/Pilot with future updates Table 4 – Expected information from Phase I
expected
Information How
Information How
Pressure and production data
Aquifer Strength
History Match
Vertical permeability History Match
PI [m3/d/kgf/cm2]
255
Pwf [kgf/cm2]
140
connected to the oil zone but it was not possible to model the 240
120
225
aquifer strength itself, what should be known during Phase I. 210
100
Forecasted PI 80
195 60
Jubarte Phase I 180 40
165 20
150 0
In order to answer remaining questions from EWT/Pilot
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Phase, Phase I was implemented, with production starting in
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December 2006.
Time [day]
The FPSO P-34, which has been used by PETROBRAS as P PDG Simulated P PDG Measuerd PI [m3/d/kgf/cm2]
a pilot unit in several fields, was fully modified to process Figure 4 –Production x Simulated data
60,000 bpd of 17° API oil during Phase I. It was also modified
to operate at a 1,350 m water depth. The main impact of this result is the water injection design
The expected information from Phase I regarding in Phase II. It is important to state that the design of P-57 has
reservoir, artificial lift method and production operation are already been concluded, considering information from
presented in Table 4. EWT/Pilot Phase, regarding water injection flow rate. In case
of new information arises from Phase I, it will be used in order
to optimize the Phase II water injection system, mainly the
number of injection wells.
Phase I considers no injection wells and four production
wells, with different artificial lift methods and well layouts, as
shown in Figure 5.
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Free area was saved and tie-ins were installed on the P-34
process plant to allow the test of compact 3-phase separators
from different manufactures through R&D projects
coordinated by PETROBRAS Research Center (CENPES).
This phase is expected to last four years, with a very important
task: to gather valuable information for developing the Phase
Figure 6 – Satellite well and the pumping module installed on the
II. sea bed.
Conclusions