BG Group Announces Initial Extended Well Test for Guará discovery, offshore Brazil

BG Group today announced that the initial Extended Well Test (EWT) on the Guará discovery in the BM-S-9 concession offshore Brazil commenced on 25th December 2010.
The EWT is being conducted in the SPS-55 well using the Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel Dynamic Producer. The EWT will last for about five months with gross daily production estimated at approximately 14 000 barrels of oil per day (bopd).
Following completion of the EWT, a pilot project on the discovery will commence in 2013 with wells connected to the FPSO Cicade de Sao Paulo which has a production capacity of 120 000 bopd and around 177 million standard cubic feet of gas per day.
Source: Press release