Petrobras posted a 5% rise in oil and gas production in Q2 2025 compared to Q1, a performance the company attributes to the ramp-up of several FPSOs.
FPSO Almirante Tamandare. Image: SBM
Petrobras credited the production boost to its FPSOs Almirante Tamandaré, in Búzios field, Maria Quitéria, in Jubarte field, Anita Garibaldi and Anna Nery, in Marlim and Voador fields, as well as the Marechal Duque de Caxias reaching full capacity and the production start-up of FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão, both in Mero field.
This quarter, Petrobras also reported the start-up of 14 new producing wells, 7 in Campos basin and 7 in Santos basin.
The FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão, 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 June 25, 32 days after the unit operation start-up. The platform has the capacity to produce 180,000 bopd, 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 bopd 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 July 13 and it is in transit to Brazil. It is scheduled to start-up production in the second semester. The FPSO 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.
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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.
