Output from the Cidade de Saquarema started on Friday from the initial production well in the central part of the field and ramped up to a stabilised rate of 30,000 barrels per day of oil on Monday, the state giant said on Tuesday.
The floater had left the SBM joint venture Brasa shipyard in Niteroi close to Rio de Janeiro on 22 May, bound for the field about 300 kilometres offshore.
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