Petrobras announces record production

Petrobras has set another daily oil-production record in Brazil: 2,238,000 barrels, a mark only eight companies in the world have reached. The result was celebrated in a ceremony attended by president José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, Exploration & Production director Guilherme Estrella, Service director Renato Duque, and International director, Nestor Cerveró, in addition to executive managers José Antônio de Figueiredo (E&P/South-Southeast), and Solange da Silva Guedes (E&P/North-Northeast), among others.

During the visit made to the P-54 plant yesterday (12/25), Estrella, together with the executive managers, uncovered the plate that celebrated the record and opened the Roncador 63 well, lifting its first oil.

To achieve this mark, in 2007 alone six new platforms went online and, at peak production, they will add 590,000 barrels to the installed capacity (maximum lifting capacity the units were designed for) in Brazilian fields. The previous record had been set on October 23 2006, at 1,912,000 barrels.

Platform P-54, which kicked production off on December 11 in the Roncador field, in the Campos Basin (RJ), was the latest of the six units to go online this year. At top production, foreseen for the second half of 2008, it will add 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) to domestic production.