Brazil's Petrobras has obtained environmental permits to carry out an extended well test at the deep-water Farfan field in the Sergipe-Alagoas basin, after facing months of delay due to concerns about an invasive species of coral.
The Farfan EWT was originally scheduled to begin in August 2018, but the Cidade de Sao Vicente floating production, storage and offloading vessel has been kept anchored at its last active location — the Sururu field, in the Santos basin — due to federal environmental agency Ibama’s concerns about an infestation of Tubastraea, a genus of azooxanthellate coral thought to have made its way to Brazil from China.
