Production at the field will be crucial for the independent, as the Campos basin tract remains one of the company's few viable assets as it seeks to settle debts of up to $5 billion in what is one of Latin America's biggest bankruptcy cases.

OGX said the TBMT-8H well has already been connected to the OSX-3 floating production, storage and offloading unit with a second well, OGX-44HP close behind.