The FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias has left China and will come to the Santos Basin, where it will operate in Mero Field, operated by Petrobras which charteres the vessel from MISC. The vessel should begin operations in September and has the capacity to produce up to 180,000 boed and compress up to 12 million cubic meters of gas.
The unit will be part of Mero’s third definitive production system and will increase the field’s installed production capacity to 590,000 boed. This system provides for the interconnection of 15 wells to the unit, 8 oil producers and 7 water and gas injectors, through a subsea infrastructure consisting of 80 km of rigid production and injection pipelines, 47 km of flexible service pipelines and 44 km of control umbilicals. The FPSO has technologies to reduce emissions, like the CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage), where gas with CO2 is reinjected into the reservoir.
Mero is the third largest field in Brazil in terms of volume of oil in place, behind Tupi and Búzios, also in the Santos Basin. Petrobras promises to put another unit into operation in Mero next year. In addition to Petrobras (38.6%), the field consortium is operated by Shell (19.3%), TotalEnergies (19.3%), CNOOC (9.65%), CNPC (9.65%) and PPSA (3.5%).
