Petrobras now operates more floating production platforms (including self-owned and chartered ones) than any other company in the world, according to Petrodata, a consulting firm that specializes in providing information about the global oil industry. According to the company’s latest figures, as of December 2014 Petrobras operated 110 offshore production units off the Brazilian coast. This total included 45 floating platforms, broken down into 29 FPSO vessels, 15 semisubmersible platforms, and one production vessel, P-53, which differs from FPSOs in that it does not store oil. Besides these 45 floating platforms, the company also operated four floating storage and offloading vessels.
In December 2014, floating platforms off the Brazilian coast operated by Petrobras produced an average of 2 MMbbl/d of oil—88% of the total volume of oil produced in the country—and 51 MMcm/d (1.8 Bcf/d) of gas—57% of domestic gas production. These volumes do not include Petrobras’ share of the output of the FPSO vessels Frade and Fluminense, installed in the Frade and Bijupirá-Salema fields, in Campos Basin, whose respective operators are Chevron and Shell, and in which Petrobras holds minority stakes.
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