Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has elevated its 2023 whole oil and pure gasoline manufacturing by 3.7 p.c 12 months over 12 months to 2.78 million barrels of oil equal per day (MMboepd).
The state-owned firm posted industrial manufacturing of oil and pure gasoline at 2.44 MMboed and oil manufacturing at 2.24 million barrels per day. Petrobras additionally achieved an annual file of whole manufacturing of oil and pure gasoline within the pre-salt with 2.17 MMboepd, surpassing the earlier file of 1.97 MMboepd in 2022 and representing 78 p.c of its whole manufacturing, it mentioned in a current information launch.
Final 12 months, Petrobras put 4 new platforms into operation. In Could 2023, floating, manufacturing, storage and offloading (FPSO) Anna Nery, the primary unit within the Marlim and Voador Revitalization Venture, and FPSO Almirante Barroso, the fifth unit within the Búzios area, got here on stream. In August 2023, the corporate began up FPSO Anita Garibaldi, the second unit of the Marlim and Voador Revitalization Venture. FPSO Sepetiba, the second definitive manufacturing system of the Mero area, got here onstream in December 2023.
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In the meantime, Petrobras mentioned it had accomplished drilling the Pitu Oeste exploratory nicely within the Potiguar Basin on the Equatorial Margin. The nicely is a part of the BMPOT-17 concession and is positioned in deep waters 32.3 miles (52 kilometers) off the coast of Rio Grande do Norte.
The corporate has knowledgeable the Brazilian Nationwide Company of Petroleum, Pure Gasoline and Biofuels (ANP) that it has recognized the presence of hydrocarbons, however famous that the asset’s financial viability remains to be inconclusive.
Petrobras in a separate assertion mentioned it’s going to proceed its exploratory analysis within the area and plans to drill a second nicely within the Potiguar Basin in February, within the POT-M-762 concession in February.
On the refining entrance, the corporate’s Refinaria Presidente Getúlio Vargas – Repar refinery in Araucária broke its manufacturing data. Gasoline manufacturing exceeded 3.4 liters, surpassing the 2012 file by three p.c. The whole quantity of gasoline offered by Petrobras, inside Repar’s space of affect, was the very best ever recorded, surpassing the earlier mark by 4.8 p.c in 2022, the corporate mentioned.
Diesel manufacturing, the Petrobras plant’s key product in Paraná, reached over 5.7 billion liters, 0.5 p.c greater than in 2014.
“This efficiency was obtained as a result of reliability and operational availability of the Repar belongings, mixed with the effectiveness of the logistical operations and market provide”, Felipe Gomes, the refinery’s basic supervisor, mentioned.
The upper gross sales quantity was solely potential as a result of enterprise situations created by the corporate, in accordance with Arnei Reginato, sector supervisor of business operations within the South Area. “Petrobras boasts well-organized logistics to cater to its prospects, which permits product provide, even in instances of low demand”, he added.
“The reliability of the operations by the crops within the firm’s refining park mixed with our groups’ competence, from manufacturing planning to execution related to the effectivity of our logistical and industrial operations, allowed [us] to achieve this excessive degree of processing, manufacturing, and use of the refineries”, Petrobras’s Industrial Course of and Product Director William França mentioned. “The gross sales data verify Petrobras’s effort to spend money on refining to fulfill industrial commitments with operational availability and reliability, all the time making certain the security of the operations”.
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