Agência Brasil*
Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras announced yesterday (26th) an all-time high oil production, at 2,000,238 barrels per day. The result, attained on Tuesday (25th), was possible due to six new platforms that became operational this year, and which produced 590,000 barrels per day.
The last platformed to start functioning, the P-54, began operating on December 11th, in the field of Roncador, in the Campos Basin (in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro), and already boasts a daily output of 45,000 barrels per day, with a forecasted output of 180,000 barrels per day in late 2008. The previous record high was 1,912,000 barrels, in October 2006.
The launch of four other platforms is scheduled for 2008, three of them for oil, in the Campos Basin, and one for gas, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. The Campos Basin will see entry into operation of the P-51, with a production capacity for 180,000 barrels per day, the P-53, with equal production capacity; and the FPSO Cidade de Niterói, which should produce 100,000 barrels per day.
The Espírito Santo Basin will see entry into operation of FPSO Cidade de São Mateus, designed to produce 10 million cubic metres of gas per day. Petrobras extracts over 80% of its production from offshore fields, whereas onshore production is 230,000 barrels per day.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
