The platform vessel FPSO Petrobras 58 (P-58) is anchored in the Jubarte field, located about 80 kilometers off the coast of Espírito Santo, on the coast of the municipality of Anchieta (ES), and operates both in post-salt and pre-salt.
The maximum operating capacity installed on FPSO P-58 is 180,000 bpd and 6 million m3 of gas. Its production takes place in a water depth of approximately 1390 meters and began in 2014.
FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) vessel-platforms are floating units for the production, storage and transfer of oil and natural gas. The oil production that is gradually stored in the tanks is drained to the refineries by means of shuttle tankers, which are nothing more than oil tankers that periodically connect to the FPSO to receive the oil and, thus, empty the oil tanks.
The gas production from the FPSOs, on the other hand, is transported by submarine gas pipelines to units on land, responsible for receiving, processing and transporting the gas and derivatives. In the case of FPSO P-58, the gas is drained to the Cacimbas Gas Treatment Unit (UTGC), in Linhares (ES), through the 201-kilometer Sul-Norte Capixaba gas pipeline, and also to the Sul Capixaba Gas Treatment Unit (UTGSUL), in Anchieta (ES), through the 83-kilometer Sul Capixaba gas pipeline.