Total to add additional capacity at Libra

Total SA plans to bring its Mero 1 floating production, storage, and offloading unit onstream in 2021 on Libra block offshore Brazil in the Santos basin. The FPSO will have 150,000 bo/d of production capacity, and Total plans to drill 17 wells in the northwestern part of the block. The operator started production with its 50,000-b/d Pioneiro de Libra FPSO in late November (OGJ Online, Nov. 27, 2017).

Total said it plans to add three additional FPSOs in the coming years, bringing production from Libra field to more than 600,000 b/d.

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