Tupi (non-contracted area) Oil and Gas Field (Brazil)

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Tupi (non-contracted area) Oil and Gas Field (Tupi (Área não contratada)) is an operating oil and gas field in Brazil.

Tupi (non-contracted area) Oil and Gas Field is also sometimes referred to as Anc_Tupi.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Tupi (non-contracted area) Oil and Gas Field

*Final Investment Decision

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID* year	Production start year
Tupi (non-contracted area)	Operating	–	–	–	–	–

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Production from Tupi (non-contracted area) Oil and Gas Field

million m³/y = million cubic meters per year

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel Description	Quantity	Units	Data Year	Source
production	gas	63.51	million m³/y	2020
production	oil	1.52	million bbl/y	2020
production	oil	1.35	million bbl/y	2022
production	gas	59.32	million m³/y	2022

Location

Table 3: field-level location details for Tupi (non-contracted area) Oil and Gas Field

Basin	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Santos	Offshore, Brazil	-24.6499, -43.4723 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the field:

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Background

Discovered in 2007, the field began production two years later in 2009. At that time, it was deemed "the Western Hemisphere's largest oil discovery in 30 years."

In 2010, Petrobras renamed the field from Tupi to Lula. In 2020, following a citizen lawsuit, a court ordered Petrobras to rename the field from Lula back to Tupi. The non-contracted portion is Tupi Leste or East Tupi. Tupi Leste belongs to the federal government and is represented by Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A. or PPSA.

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Additional data

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