Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Petrobras has started production through the FPSO Sepetiba at the deepwater Mero Field in the Libra Block in Brazil’s presalt Santos Basin.
The platform, located more than 180 km from the coast of Rio de Janeiro, is the third production system to operate on Mero. It has capacity to produce 180,000 bbl/d of oil with compression of up to 12 MMcf/d (associated CO2-rich gas is reinjected into the reservoir) via a network of eight producer and eight water/gas injection wells.
It also marks the startup of the project’s second development phase, Mero-2, which will lift overall production capacity to 410,000 bbl/d, according to partner TotalEnergies.
Two further phases of 180,000 bbl/d each, Mero-3 and Mero-4, are under construction, with both set to go onstream by 2025.
Petrobras chartered the FPSO from SBM Offshore. Other partners in the development are Shell, CNPC, CNOOC, and Pré-Sal Petróleo (PPSA) (3.5%), the federal government's representative in the non-contracted area.
