Rio de Janeiro – Production of oil extracted in the pre-salt layer by Petrobras in Brazil should exceed 1 million barrels in 2017. The forecast is in the 2013-2017 Business Management Plan, presented today (19) by the company and investors.
According to Petrobras president Graça Foster, pre-salt production reached 300,000 barrels a day in February this year. She pointed out that the company took only seven years to reach this figure. In Campos Basin, for example, it took 11 years, in the Gulf of Mexico, in turn, 17 years, and in the North Sea, nine years.
“I consider any statement disqualifying Petrobras regarding its capacity to produce pre-salt oil in Brazil totally unfitting. It cannot be sustained. Production is there: we are producing 300,000 barrels a day,” she said.
The plan also forecasts that production should reach 2.1 million barrels of oil in 2020. Among the challenges already overcome, according to Graça Foster, are reduction of the time necessary to prepare a well and promotion of high resolution seismic studies (searches) to guarantee greater exploratory success.
*Translated by Mark Ament
