Petrobras brings Búzios field on line
Brazil Petrobras FPSO P-74
The vessel is situated about 200 kilometres from Río de Janeiro in water depths of 2,000 metres in the Santos Basin. The startup represents the 13th pre-salt platform that Petrobras has brought on line in Brazil’s offshore.
Petrobras has said that four more production units could be installed in the field by 2021, each with a processing capacity of 150,000 bopd and 6 mcm (212 mcf) of gas per day. The next two such platforms are expected to begin producing by the end of 2018, with P-77 installed in 2019.
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