Pre-salt production again anchored Petrobras’s growth, accounting for 82% of its total output. The company established new annual records with 2.45 million boed of own production and 3.70 million boed of operated production in pre-salt zones. The Santos Basin played a key role, with two new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units—Almirante Tamandaré in Búzios and Alexandre de Gusmão in Mero—starting operation last year. Almirante Tamandaré achieved a production peak averaging 240,000 bpd in November and December, becoming Brazil’s highest-producing platform. The FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias in Mero also hit peak output in this period.
Additionally, the FPSOs Maria Quitéria, Anita Garibaldi, and Anna Nery continued ramp-up in their respective fields, contributing significantly to overall volumes. The Búzios field reached a milestone of one million bpd of operated production with just six platforms, underscoring the high productivity of its wells. The seventh platform at Búzios, P-78, began operations at year-end and is expected to sustain production growth moving forward.
Petrobras emphasized that operational efficiency improvements across all units were pivotal in exceeding its targets. The company attributes these results to the integrated effort of its workforce while maintaining commitments to environmental protection, operational safety, asset reliability, and social responsibility. The ongoing expansion within the pre-salt and the strategic deployment of new assets indicate an optimistic outlook for Brazil’s oil and gas sector in the near term.
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