Field Brazil Tender

Scope BM-C-33 is a deepwater gas and condensate field being developed in the pre-salt region at the southern part of the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.The licence is situated approximately 200km from the shore in water depths up to 2900m.BM-C-33 comprises three pre-salt discoveries- Po de Acar Gvea and Seat. The field cluster is estimated to contain natural gas and oilcondensate recoverable reserves of more than one billion barrels of oil equivalent boe.Equinor operates the field with a 35 interest. The other partners are Repsol Sinopec Brasil 35 and Petrobras 30. The field is expected to start production in 2028.BM-C-33 field background detailsRepsol Sinopec Brasil acquired the BM-C-33 block in an auction held by Brazils National Petroleum Agency ANP in 2005.The discoveries were made by Repsol Sinopec in 2010.Equinor became the operator of the block in 2016 and the company along with its partners Repsol and Petrobras approved the development concept for BM-C-33 in March 2021.The final investment decision to develop the project was taken in May 2023. The development is expected to entail an investment of approximately 9bn.Geology and Appraisal detailsThe BM-C-33 field features complex reservoirs that exhibit a heterogeneous silica-rich carbonate with vugs caverns and fractures.Between 2013-2015 the project partners drilled and tested the Seat-2 PdA-A1 and PdA-A2 appraisal wells in the licence.The Gavea A1 appraisal well completed in 2016 encountered a 175m hydrocarbon column in a high-quality reservoir of silicified carbonates of Macabu formation.It reached a total depth of 6230m and was tested producing around 16 million standard cubic feet scf of gas and 4000 barrels per day of oil.Previously in 2012 Po de Acar well which discovered the third find in the block encountered two pre-salt accumulations comprising a hydrocarbon column of 480m with a total pay of around 350m.BM-C-33 Development DetailsThe BM-C-33 development plan includes a floating production storage and offloading FPSO unit capable of processing gas and oilcondensate thereby eliminating the need for further onshore processing.The well streams will be tied to the FPSO vessel which will process gas and oilcondensate to sales specifications for export.The processed crude will be offloaded by shuttle tankers and then transported to the international market following ship-to-ship transfer.The gas processed at the FPSO will be transported via a 200km offshore gas pipeline to an onshore gas receiving plant at the Petrobras TECAB complex at Cabinas in the city of Maca Rio de Janeiro state. From there the gas will be transported to the domestic gas transmission network.According to the development plan the projects gas export capacity will be 16Mm3day with average exports expected to be 14Mm3day.Daily oil processing capacity will be around 20000