Brazil’s national hydrocarbon company Petrobras has started the production of oil and natural gas from the shared deposit of Atapu, through platform P-70, in the eastern portion of the Santos Basin pre-salt, near the Búzios field, Brazil. The P-70 own platform has the capacity to process up to 150 kb/d of oil and treat up to 6 mcm/d of natural gas. Petrobras holds an 89.26% stake in the deposit in partnership with Shell Brasil Petróleo (4.26%), Total E&P do Brasil (3.83%), Petrogal Brasil (1.70%) and PPSA (0.95%).
In June 2020, Total commissioned a new 150,000 bbl/d Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) in the Lara cluster (Block BM-S-11A), located in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The FPSO will double the crude oil production capacity in the area, where a first FPSO started operations in November 2019.