RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (By Petrobras, 29.Jul.2025, Words: 357) — Average production of oil, NGL and natural gas was 2.91 MMboed in 2Q:25, 5.0% higher than 1Q25. This performance was mainly due to the ramp-up of FPSOs Almirante Tamandaré, in Búzios field, Maria Quitéria, in Jubarte field, Anita Garibaldi and Anna Nery, in Marlim and Voador fields, to Marechal Duque de Caxias reaching full capacity and the production start-up of FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão, both in Mero field.
On the other hand, we had higher losses due to stoppages and maintenance, besides the natural decline in production.
This quarter, we had the start-up of 14 new producing wells, 7 in Campos Basin and 7 in Santos Basin.
The FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão (photo), the fifth platform in the Mero field, located in the Santos Basin, began its operations on May 24, ahead of the date scheduled in the current business plan, marking another significant milestone for production in the Brazilian pre-salt. Gas injection has also begun, with the start-up of the first injection well on 25 Jun., 32 days after the unit operation start-up. The platform has the capacity to produce 180,000 barrels of oil per day, besides compressing and re-injecting 12 million m³ of gas per day.
FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias, whose production start-up was on October 30, 2024, in Mero field, reached its peak production of 180,000 barrels of oil per day on May 19 with just four producing wells. Altogether, the platform will have 15 wells, 8 producers and 7 water and gas injection wells.
Platform P-78 left the shipyard in Singapore on 13 Jul. and itis in transit to Brazil. It is scheduled to start-up production in the second semester. An FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading oil production system), the platform is the seventh unit to be installed in Búzios field, in Santos Basin pre-salt, and will be towed to the location with crew already on board, which will allow the production start-up to be anticipated by roughly two weeks. Its production capacity will be 180,000 barrels of oil per day, in addition to compressing up to 7.2 million m³ of gas per day.
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