November 1, 2024--Written by Amir Richani for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Petrobras's (NYSE:PBR) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Marechal Duque de Caxias floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has begun producing oil and gas in the Mero field of the offshore Santos Basin, the company said this week. The platform vessel has a production capacity of 12 million cubic meters of gas per day and 180,000 barrels of oil per day (BBL/d), which will bring Mero's field oil production capacity to 590,000 BBL/d.