Rio de Janeiro — Brazilian state-led oil company Petrobras will pump first oil from the Mero Field in the Libra production-sharing area in the first quarter of 2022 amid delays in building the field's first floating production unit, the company said April 7. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now "The FPSO is going through conversion in China and, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were delays in work on the unit, with a subsequent adjustment in the project's timeline," Petrobras said. The company had said Feb. 25 that it expected the FPSO Guanabara floating production, storage and offloading vessel to pump first oil in the fourth quarter of 2021, likely close to the end of the year.