(PetroleoHJoje) The Maersk Developer rig, chartered to execute Karoon’s intervention campaign in Baúna, in the Santos Basin, is already on its way to Brazil. The Maersk unit, which left Trinidad & Tobago last week, is expected to arrive in the country in the second half of April.
The semi-submersible Maersk Developer will start campaigning in May, if the schedule is not delayed. The rig will make a stop in Guyana to load and unload some equipment.
In Brazil, the unit will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the internal authorities, which will prevent the equipment from going straight to the location. Maersk Developer will await release in sheltered waters off Rio de Janeiro, near Niterói.
Karoon’s firm campaign will include four intervention operations in the Baúna field, an asset acquired in the Petrobras divestment program, and the drilling of two new wells in the Patola prospect. The rig will be chartered until at least December.
With these activities, Karoon plans to double the project’s production. The goal is for the volume to jump from the current 13,000 bpd to 30,000 bpd in 2023.
The oil company is evaluating the possibility of drilling one or two control wells with Maersk Developer in the Neon area, a project adjacent to Baúna. The decision on the campaign will be taken by the board at the end of March.
If Karoon chooses to execute the Neon wells, the rig will be under contract until 2023.
Karoon’s contract with Maersk Drilling was signed in April 2021. The campaign will be carried out in shallow water, marking the oil company’s first intervention work in Baúna and the start of operation of the Danish company’s first rig in Brazil.
The oil company acquired the Baúna field in 2019, for US$ 665 million, and the operation of the asset was transferred only in November 2022, when the process was concluded.
The Baúna field operates connected to the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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