Petrobras announced that FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias has left Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd. yard in China, on 24th February 2024.
The FPSO is currently being towed towards Mero field, in the Pre-Salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.
The FPSO, chartered by Petrobras from MISC Group, will be part of Mero’s 3rd definitive production system and will increase the field’s installed production capacity to 590 thousand barrels of oil per day.
The FPSO is schedule for 1st Oil in September this year and has the capacity to produce up to 180 thousand barrels of oil and compress up to 12 million cubic meters of gas, all daily.
This FPSO provides for the interconnection of 15 wells to the unit, 8 oil producers and 7 water and gas injectors, through a subsea infrastructure made up of 80 km of rigid production and injection pipelines, 47 km of flexible service pipelines and 44 km of control umbilicals.
The Mero project is owned and operated by a Consortium comprising Petrobras (38.6%), in partnership with Shell Brasil (19.3%), TotalEnergies (19.3%), CNOOC International (9.65%), CNPC (9.65%) and Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A. (PPSA) (3.5%), as the Union’s representative in the non-contracted area.