Brazilian oil company Petrobras has rejected suggestions that gas and water breakthrough is affecting well flows on the Lula field, claiming such interpretations fail to take account of its production optimisation strategy.
Lula is one of the biggest oil fields in Brazil’s pre-salt province, with reserves estimated at 8.3 billion barrels oil equivalent when commerciality was declared in 2010.
The floating production, storage and offloading unit Angra dos Reis entered into production in 2011, making Lula a pioneer in terms of developing the deep-buried carbonate pre-salt reservoirs off Brazil.