RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Petrobras has produced first gas through the P-68 platform serving the Berbigão and Sururu fields in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil, the company said in its latest results statement.
It also conducted a scheduled shutdown of the Mexilhão Platform (Route 1) in the same basin for preventive maintenance, designed to ensure continued production, flow and natural gas supply operations.
In late February, the FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias departed the shipyard in Yantai, China, for the deepwater Mero oil field in the presalt Santos Basin. The platform, the third full-scale production system at the field, is due to start operating in the second half of this year, with capacity to produce up to 180,000 bbl/d of oil and 12 MMcu m/d of gas.
During March, the Búzios Field in the Santos Basin produced its one-billionth barrel of oil. Five FPSOs are currently in service on the field with six more on the way by 2027.
