Mero (non-contracted area) Oil Field (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

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Mero (non-contracted area) Oil Field (Mero (Área não contratada)) is an operating oil field in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mero (non-contracted area) Oil Field is also sometimes referred to as AnC_Mero.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Mero (non-contracted area) 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
Mero (non-contracted area)	Operating	Petrobras	Petrobras (40.0%); Shell Brasil (20.0%); TotalEnergies (20.0%); CNODC Brasil (10.0%); CNOOC Petroleum (10.0%)	2010	–	2017	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Production from Mero (non-contracted area) Oil Field

million m³/y = million cubic meters per year
million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year
million m³ = million cubic meters
million bbl = million barrels of oil

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
cumulative production	oil	3.88	million bbl	2023
cumulative production	gas	251.37	million m³	2023
production	oil	2.58	million bbl/y	2023
production	gas	114.21	million m³/y	2023

Location

Table 3: Field-level location details for Mero (non-contracted area) Oil Field

Concession/Block	Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Libra	Santos	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Offshore	-24.612, -42.22 (approximate)

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