Offshore staff

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Petrobras has completed 100 days of operating its Jubarte field subsea centrifuge pumping system and says the project increased oil production at the JUB-6 well from 10,000 b/d to 24,000 b/d.

The pumping system is part of Petrobras' Heavy Oil Technology Program. The Submarine Centrifuge Pumping System consists of a downhole centrifuge pump connected to the christmas tree and piping connections to platform P-34. The equipment will be monitored for the remainder of 2007 with an expected useful life of two years.

Plans are to install another such system in Marlim Leste field.

The technology was a joint development of Cenpes, Petrobras' E&P Production Engineering, and Espirito Santo (UN-ES) Business Unit.

10/19/2007