Project Profile
Value: US$700 million
Location: Block BT-PN-8
Start-up Year: 2Q 2012
Gross flat production rate: 5.7 million cubic metres per day of gas
In 2011, only 20 months after the beginning of the drilling campaign at this basin, OGX has already declared commerciality for two gas fields, Gavião Azul and Gavião Real, with potential resources of approximately 1.1 Tcf. At the same time, the company continues the drilling of wildcat and appraisal wells, and the seismic campaign in the region, which currently has three teams, totaling more than one thousand professionals. The development of the basin is underway and should count with an exclusive rig for drilling development wells in the region during 2012 and 2013.
The California and Fazenda Sao Jose prospects were renamed the Gaviao Azul and Gaviao Real fields, respectively.
The gas will supply the MPX\'s 676MW Parnaíba 1 thermoelectric plant. OGX Maranhão, a is in a joint venture between MPX (33.3%) and Petróleo y Gas Participaciones (66.6%), who is the operator of the field.
The Gavião Real field is currently approximately 6 million m³/d of non-associated gas and has done so throughout 2016
Operators:
OGX Maranhão and MPX (33.3%)
Petróleo y Gas Participaciones (66.6%) (Field Operator)
Updated by TM.