Executive manager for pre-salt assets Carlos Tadeu Fraga outlined some of the advances made in the ultra-deepwater pre-salt province, including a halving of drilling and completion time to 92 and 96 days, respectively, on two recent wells.

Fraga told a topical lunch audience at Rio Oil & Gas that deployment of four buoyancy supported riser (BSR) systems by Subsea 7 was a sign of progress that has opened the door to more improvements.

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