Brazilian oil company Petrobras will grow by the drill bit and via massive personnel levy of 2,600 new staff, as the company gets set to test the Tupi field in early 2009 ahead of the arrival of nine, mostly Norwegian-owned rigs.
Tupi will produce test flows of 30,000 by “first quarter” next year, despite deep geology which has trapped most of its oil and gas below a salt layer, Dow Jones reported Petrobras president Jose Sergio Gabrielli saying. He said 100,000 bpd could flow from a pilot scheme in 2010, a Petrobras plan long ago reported by Scandoil.com.
Petrobras recently announced a a desire to have 16 rigs drilling in the deepwaters offshore Brazil by the end of 2010.
The news agency reported 450,000 applications have been sent the Latin American nation’s energy champion.
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