New platform Galp in Brazil has the capacity to process 150 thousand barrels per day – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

In the sixth production platform Galp in Brazil with capacity to produce 150,000 barrels of oil daily. The FPSO Cidade de Saquarema, a ship that draws as much oil as natural gas, went into operation last week announced Galp this Tuesday, July 12.

This is the second production plant to go into operation this year, and the sixth in total that is producing the Lula / Iracema field. This ship is operating in Central Lula area in the pre-salt Santos Basin.

Saquarema city has the capacity to process daily up to 150 thousand barrels of oil and six million cubic meters of gas Natural. At the same time, has a storage capacity of 1.6 million million barrels of oil.

Galp has a 10% stake in the consortium that operates the BM-S-11 block, Petrobras being the operator (65%) and 25% to fit the BG E & amp;. P Brazil, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell

the production of Galp in Brazil grew almost 50% in the first quarter to 45,000 barrels per day oil and gas. The company’s production originating in Brazil weighed 85% of total production. Reason enough for Carlos Gomes da Silva have already declared that Brazil is the “anchor activity” Galp.

In the Santos Basin, is expected to start 22 platform-ship operation in the coming years and Galp is involved in 14. at this time, the Portuguese company has three FPSOs operating here until the end of the year will have four more.