Petrobras reported this Friday (2) that it began, last Wednesday (31), oil production from the P-78 platform ship, in the Búzios Field, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. With the capacity to produce 180,000 barrels of oil and 7.2 million cubic meters (m³) of gas per day, the platform ship will increase the field’s installed production capacity to approximately 1.15 million barrels of oil per day.
Furthermore, the operation will allow gas to be exported to the continent, via interconnection with the Rota 3 gas pipeline (formerly Comperj), in Itaboraí (RJ), expanding the gas supply in Brazil by up to 3 million m³ per day.
“With the first oil from P-78, we started the year already advancing in the main goal we have for 2026: increasing Petrobras’ oil and gas production. We plan to produce 2.5 million barrels of oil per day throughout this year and a large part will come from Búzios, the country’s largest field in terms of reserves and production. In addition, we are also expanding the supply of natural gas to the Brazilian market, another goal expressed in our Business Plan”, said the president of Petrobras, Magda Chambriard.
According to Petrobras, the platform is equipped with technologies to reduce emissions and increase operational efficiency, highlighting the combustion gas recovery system, adoption of rotation variation in pumps and compressors and energy integrations between hot and cold streams in oil and gas processing.
The P-78 is the seventh in operation in the Búzios Field, the largest in the country in terms of reserves and which, in October 2025, surpassed the 1 million barrels per day mark. This field, discovered in 2010 by well 2-ANP-1-RJS, is located 180 kilometers off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in ultra-deep waters of the Santos Basin, more than 2 thousand meters deep.
