February 20, 2025--Written by Amir Richani for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Petrobras' (NYSE:PBR) (Rio de Janeiro) floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) structure Almirante Tamandare, which can produce 225,000 barrels of oil per day (BBL/d) and process 12 million cubic meters of gas per day, has begun production in Brazil's Buzios oilfield.

The platform will be connected to 15 oil, gas and water wells. The startup of the new FPSO is expected to boost the Buzios Field's production to 1 million BBL/d of oil by the second half of this year.