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Shell has started production at the Parque das Conchas project 110 kilometres off the south east coast of Brazil where heavy oil resources lie beneath waters nearly two kilometres deep.
Parque das Conchas is a two phase project. The first phase now onstream involves nine producing wells and one gas injector well. The second phase will focus on the Argonauto North field.
The floating production, storage storage and offloading vessel Espirito Santo can process 100k bpd of oil and 50 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and store up to 1.5 million barrels of oil for shipment to shore by transport tankers.
To keep the heavy crude flowing the Santo, with 68 meagawatts of power generation capacity, feeds power to the deep water separation and high pressure pumping systems through large electrical umbilical cables.