Written by Amir Richani for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Petrobras' Almirante Tamandare floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) platform recently arrived in Brazil to operate in the Buzios deepwater oil field. The new platform is part of the company's plans to expand its downstream production, with several units set to be launched.

The FPSO, which arrived from China, will be installed at the Buzios Field in the Santos Basin, offshore Rio de Janeiro. It has the capacity to produce 225,000 barrels of oil per day (BBL/d) and process 12 million cubic meters of natural gas per day.