The unit — which is expected to process 180,000 barrels per day of oil and 2 million cubic metres per day of natural gas — will handle a split of pre-salt light oil and heavy oil from the field.
The P-57 was originally scheduled to go on stream in August 2011. However, Petrobras has already finished the drilling and completion of horizontal producing wells 7-JUB-9HP-ESS and 7-JUB-13HP-ESS in order to have the floater ready by December.
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