Badejo Field is an offshore oil field in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It is a mature oil field located in the southwest part of the

Campos Basin The Campos Basin is one of 12 coastal sedimentary basins of Brazil. It spans both onshore and offshore parts of the South Atlantic with the onshore part located near Rio de Janeiro. The basin originated in Neocomian stage of the Cretaceous period ...

off the coast. Above of it is laying partly the Membro Siri (sometimes referred just as Siri) extra heavy crude oil field with and 12.8°

API gravity The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity, is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water: if its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks ...

. Oil was discovered in the Membro Siri reservoir in 1975, but was considered uneconomical to develop this time. In 2008 the

FPSO A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing of hydrocarbons, and for the storage of oil. An FPSO vessel is designed to receive h ...

Petrojarl Cidade de Rio das Ostras Teekay Petrojarl was the largest Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) operator in the North Sea with a daily production of 339,000 barrels of oil A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are d ...

'' started test production of the Siri crude. Part of the process equipment on the FPSO is an

electrostatic coalescer Electrostatics is a branch of physics that studies electric charges at rest (static electricity). Since classical times, it has been known that some materials, such as amber, attract lightweight particles after rubbing. The Greek word for amber ...

with the VIEC technology from

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. The process system was delivered by

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. It consists of two separator stages and the electrostatic coalescer. Using high processing temperature the process system is designed to output crude oil with an export specification of 1%

BS&W Basic sediment and water (BS&W) is a both a technical specification of certain impurities in crude oil and the method for measuring it. When extracted from an oil reservoir, the crude oil will contain some amount of water and suspended solids from ...

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Presentation of the Petrojarl Cidade De Rio Das OstrasTeekay Petrojarl, presentationHamworthy’s VIEC technologyExpro's solution for the process system
Oil fields of Brazil Campos Basin Petrobras oil and gas fields {{oilfield-stub