Espirito Santo Oil & Natural Gas Yearbook 2021
CHAPTER 2| EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION OF OIL IN ESPÍRITO SANTO
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Chapter 2
EXPLORATION
AND PRODUCTION
OF OIL IN ESPÍRITO
SANTO
The oil and gas exploration and
production infrastructure of Espíri-
to Santo State, both onshore and
offshore, comprises 68 fields in
operation and 5 fields in the devel-
opment phase. In addition to these,
the State has 30 exploratory blocks
divided into two sedimentary ba-
sins: part of the Campos basin and
the entirety of the Espírito Santo ba-
sin. On the border with the Campos
basin, the State has 7 fields in pro-
duction and 2 exploratory blocks.
In the Espírito Santo basin, there
are 61 fields in production, 7 in the
offshore portion and 54 in the on-
shore. Still, in this last basin, there
are 28 exploratory blocks, 10 in the
offshore portion and 18 in the on-
shore portion.
Twelve (12) oil companies are
operating in the State with fields
in the production stages or the
product development stages.
Among them, 4 foreign companies
(Central Resources, ONGC Cam-
pos, QPI Brasil, and Shell Brasil)
and 8 national companies (BGM,
Imetame, IPI, Petrobras, Petro-
mais, Petrosynergy, Ubunto En-
genharia, and Vipetro). Petrobras
holds the concession for the fields
with the highest productivity in the
state, such as the fields that make
up Parque das Baleias.
2.1. Drilling Activity
in Espírito Santo
The offshore drilling activities in
Espírito Santo began with the first
well on the border with the munici-
pality of São Mateus in 1968. Since
then, 535 wells have been drilled
more frequently between 2009
and 2015, when the annual aver-
age of drilling was 37 wells drilled
per year. The main oil companies
that conducted this process were
Petrobras and Shell Brasil.
In the most recent period, be-
tween 2015 and 2020, offshore
drilling was reduced to an annual
average of 3 wells drilled, mark-
ing the worst performance of the
activity since the beginning of
offshore drilling in Espírito Santo
(chart 8). In 2020, three wells were
drilled offshore, two of them in the
Campos basin (Campo de Jubar-
te and Campo Argonauta) and the
other in the Espírito Santo basin
(Golfinho). In 2021, until August,
three wells were drilled offshore:
two wells in Jubarte and one well
in block ES-M-669.
562
offshore wells have been
drilled in Espírito Santo
since 1968
37
was the annual average
of offshore well drilling
between 2009 and 2014,
the period with the highest
frequency
6
offshore wells were drilled
in 2021, 4 of which in
Jubarte, 1 in block ES-
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