Brazilian oil company Petrobras has started producing oil and gas from the P-76 FPSO in the Búzios field in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.
With a daily capacity to process up to 150,000 barrels of oil and compress up to 6 million cubic meters of natural gas, P-76 is the second FPSO to start-up in 2019 for Petrobras. The oil company plans to add two more FPSO’s in 2019.
The Búzios field, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin, was discovered in 2010 and is the main field under the Transfer of Rights Agreement. The field started production in April 2018, and another platform is expected to start-up this year, the P-77.
The FPSO is located approximately 180 km off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, at a water depth of 2,030 meters.
The project provides for its interconnection to ten producing wells and seven injector wells. The offload of oil production will be made by relief vessels, while gas production will be drained through the pre-salt pipeline routes.
