Iracema Oil Field (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

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Iracema Oil Field is an operating oil field in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Iracema Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as Cernambi.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Iracema Oil 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
Iracema	Operating	–	Petrogal Brasil (10.0%); Petrobras (65.0%); Shell (25.0%)	–	–	2010	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Iracema Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	recoverable reserves	8300	million bbl	2010	​

Location

Table 3: Field-level location details for Iracema Oil Field

Concession/Block	Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
BM-S-11	Santos	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Offshore	-24.6499, -43.4723 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the field:

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