Tham khảo tài liệu 'natural gas part 10', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 352 Natural Gas GASENE branch. The recent increase in gas availability for the Northeast was caused by the beginning of operations in the Manati field in Bahia. Still viewing the expansion in the Brazilian natural gas production Petrobras conducts investments in the Santos Basin. The short-term production expectations in the Santos Basin are 30 MMm3 per day of natural gas with excellent perspectives for continuous growth mainly after the finding of the of the Tupi and Jupiter mega-fields with an estimated reserve of 5 to 8 billion barrels of petroleum equivalent and more recently the announcement of the finding of field BM-S-9 known as Carioca with an estimated reserve of 33 billion barrels of petroleum equivalent. Besides the distance of these new fields from the Brazilian coast another great difficulty of these recent findings is the thickness of the water blade and well depth - the sum of the parts results in total depths of over 5 000 meters. This is because the E P cost considerably increases with the depth of the fields due to the need of using more resistant materials and more adequate to the pre-salt environment as presented in Figure 13. Hence the exploration of these wells is only viable and attractive with the increase in the petroleum barrel price. Cost MM Fig. 13. E P Cost x Depth Source British Petroleum 4. Market Opportunity for LNG in Brazil The need of flexibility for the Brazilian natural gas market and its relation with LNG Albeit incipient the Brazilian natural gas industry needs great flexibility. In the 1990s the conduction of liberalizing reforms changed the economic context in Brazil causing the 353 Looking for clean energy considering LNG assessment to provide energy security in Brazil and GTL from Bolivia natural gas reserves industrial organization and the contracts traditionally used in the incipient stage of the natural gas industry not be the best instruments to reduce the investments risks in relation to the infrastructure of this
