FPSO Carioca Becomes Petrobras’s Highest Production Platform: Unit Chartered With Modec in the Pre-Salt of Santos Basin Reaches 175,000 Barrels of Oil Per Day

FPSO Carioca Platform of Brazilian Giant Petrobras Reaches 175 Thousand Barrels of Oil Per Day (BPD), Approaching Its Total Production Capacity

Petrobras reported in a relevant fact on May 5 that the fourth production well interconnected to the FPSO Carioca, in the Sépia field, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin, has gone into operation. The opening of the last production well added 41 thousand barrels of oil per day (bpd) to the unit – which already produced 134 thousand bpd. Thus, it became the highest production platform of the Brazilian oil company, now at 175 thousand bpd.

Remember that the FPSO Carioca, a unit leased from Modec, began operations in August 2021 and has a capacity to process up to 180 thousand bpd and compress up to 6 million m³/day of natural gas. 

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On the same date as the opening of the last production well of the FPSO Carioca, Petrobras and the new partners of the shared Sépia reservoir signed the Production Sharing contracts, along with Pré-Sal Petróleo SA (PPSA), the contract manager, as well as the Co-Participation Agreement.

The shared reservoir consists of the Sépia fields (governed by the onerous assignment and production sharing contracts) and Sépia East – governed by the concession contract (BM-S-24). Thus, Petrobras, the operator, now holds a 55.3% interest in the reservoir; TotalEnergies EP, 16.91%; Petronas, 12.69%; QP Brasil, 12.69%; and Petrogal Brasil S.A., 2.41%.