Petrobras reported on February 24, in a press release, that the platform ship Marechal Duque de Caxias left Yantai, China, heading to Brazil, in the Mero field, operated by the company in the pre-salt Santos Basin.

The unit will be part of Mero's third definitive production system and will increase the field's installed production capacity to 590 thousand barrels of oil per day.

The platform will go into operation in September, the state-owned company said. It can produce up to 180 thousand barrels of oil and compress up to 12 million cubic meters of gas per day.

The operations of the Mero unitized field are conducted by the Consortium operated by Petrobras (38.6%), in partnership with Shell Brasil (19.3%), TotalEnergies (19.3%), CNOOC (9.65%), CNPC (9.65%) and Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A (PPSA) (3.5%).

(Source: Money Times, on February 24)