The Marechal Duque de Caxias FPSO began producing oil and gas on Wednesday, 10/30, in the Mero field, Libra block, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. The platform has a production capacity of up to 180 thousand barrels of oil per day and a processing capacity of 12 million m3 of gas. PPSA (Pré-sal Petróleo S.A.) is the representative of the Government in the non-contracted area and the manager of the production sharing agreement for Mero, a field that will produce 590 thousand barrels of oil per day when the Marechal Duque de Caxias reaches its full capacity.

“The start of production at Marechal Duque de Caxias represents an important step for the growth of production in the Mero field, which is already the main oil producer for the Government. This FPSO also comes with decarbonization technologies and will use, for the first time, HISEP, bringing yet another innovation to pre-salt production,” said Evamar José dos Santos, Director of Agreement Management at PPSA.

The HISEP technology separates oil and gas at the bottom of the ocean, from where it will reinject the CO2-rich gas into the reservoir. Thus, in addition to enabling increased oil recovery, it is expected to also contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions intensity into the atmosphere.

In total, the FPSO will have 15 wells, 8 oil producers, and 7 water and gas injectors, interconnected to the platform via subsea infrastructure.

Mero unitized field operations are conducted by the consortium operated by Petrobras (38.6%), in partnership with Shell Brasil (19.3%), TotalEnergies (19.3%), CNODC (9.65%), CNPC (9.65%) and Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A (PPSA) (3.5%), as representative of the Government in the non-contracted area.