Petrobras announces that production platform P-62, one of the strategic projects of its 2014-2018 Business and Management Plan, started-up on this Monday (05/12/14), in Roncador field, Campos Basin.

P-62, installed at a water depth of 1,600 meters, is an integral part of the Module 4 project of Roncador field. Twenty-two wells, 14 of them oil and gas production and eight water injection will be interconnected to the platform.

The FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) unit has the capacity to process up to 180 thousand barrels of oil and 6 million cubic meters of natural gas per day.

The platform will export oil via shuttle tankers and natural gas will be transferred via a gas pipeline connecting the platform to the gas distribution network of Campos Basin.

The construction work created 5 thousand direct jobs, 15 thousand indirect ones, and reached a local content rate of 63%.

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