Petrobras plans for Chinook

By Anthony Guegel

 12 July 2012 22:59 GMT

PETROBRAS plans to bring the Chinook field on stream within the next two months aboard the floating production, storage and offloading vessel BW Pioneer, which has been producing since February when it achieved first oil with the first well on the Cascade field in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, writes Anthony Guegel.

The Chinook well has already been drilled and is awaiting ­final completion. It would be the second well tied back to the FPSO.

Petrobras plans a total of three subsea wells, two on ­Cascade and one on Chinook, to complete phase one development.

The second well on Cascade has just finished drilling and is next up for completion, according to Cesar Palagi, Walker Ridge Asset Manager for Petrobras America in Houston.

The completion work could be performed by the new drillship Titanium Explorer, operated by Vantage Drilling, which is under contract to Petrobras. The…

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