Atum Oil and Gas Field (Ceará, Brazil)

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Atum Oil and Gas Field is a shut in oil and gas field in Ceará, Brazil.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Atum Oil and Gas Field

¹Final Investment Decision
²If a country or region is known to not produce any hydrocarbons in an unconventional method, this production type is assumed to be conventional

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type2
Atum	Shut in	Petrobras	Petrobras (100.0%)	1979	–	1983	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Atum Oil and Gas Field

million m³ = million cubic meters
million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
associated gas	volume in place	2009.29	million m³	2015	​
oil	original oil in place	156.62	million bbl	2015	​

Table 3: Production from Atum Oil and Gas Field

million m³ = million cubic meters
million bbl = million barrels of oil

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
cumulative production	associated gas	680.52	million m³	2015
cumulative production	oil	37.55	million bbl	2015
cumulative production	oil	39.33	million bbl	2023
cumulative production	gas	1018.63	million m³	2023

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Atum Oil and Gas Field

Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Ceará	Ceará, Brazil	Offshore	-2.972, -38.971 (exact)

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