TotalEnergies begins production at Lapa South-West project

TotalEnergies has announced the commencement of accumulation astatine the Lapa South-West task successful the Santos Basin, situated astir 300km offshore Brazil.

Lapa South-West is an enlargement of the deep-water Lapa tract operated by TotalEnergies (48%), with Shell (27%) and Repsol Sinopec (25%) being the different stakeholders.

Sanctioned successful 2023, the enlargement task progressive the drilling of 3 wells, which person been linked to the existing floating production, retention and offloading (FPSO) portion astatine the Lapa field.

Lapa South-West is intended to summation output from the Lapa tract by 25,000 barrels per day.

Aker Solutions was engaged by TotalEnergies to present the subsea accumulation system, tools and each associated engineering, procurement, operation and installation interfaces for the Lapa South-West project.

TotalEnergies exploration and accumulation president Nicolas Terraz said: “The start-up of our operated Lapa South-West task marks different important milestone for TotalEnergies successful Brazil, a cardinal maturation state for our company.

“This project, which leverages the disposable capableness of the existing Lapa facilities, delivers low-cost and low-emission lipid accumulation successful enactment with our institution strategy and contributes to the accomplishment of our nonsubjective to turn our accumulation by 3% per twelvemonth until 2030.”

Prior to achieving the milestone astatine Lapa South-West, TotalEnergies announced archetypal lipid accumulation from its non-operated Mero-4 task successful the Santos Basin successful May 2025.

Mero-4 is an enlargement of the Mero tract connected the Libra block, located 180km disconnected Rio de Janeiro’s coast. The task progressive drilling 12 wells, which were connected to the Alexandre de Gusmão FPSO unit.

TotalEnergies’ stock of accumulation successful Brazil is expected to further ramp up with the anticipated start-ups of Atapu-2 and Sépia-2 successful 2029.

In Brazil, TotalEnergies presently takes portion successful 9 exploration and accumulation (E&P) licences, 4 arsenic operator. The French lipid and state large reported an mean regular output of 184,500 barrels of lipid equivalent from Brazil successful 2025.

Last month, TotalEnergies signed a missive of intent with Glenfarne Alaska LNG to procure liquefied earthy state (LNG) from the Alaska LNG project. Under this agreement, TotalEnergies volition acquisition 2 cardinal tonnes per annum for much than 20 years.

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