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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
154,334
Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., better known by and trading as the portmanteau Petrobras (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˌpɛtɾoˈbɾas, pet-]), is a Brazilian majority state-owned multinational corporation in the petroleum industry, which is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company's name translates to Brazilian Petroleum Corporation.
The company was ranked #71 in the 2023 Fortune Global 500 list. In the 2023 Forbes Global 2000, Petrobras was ranked as the 58th-largest public company in the world.
Origin
Petrobras was founded in 1953 in Brasília by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder
Getúlio Vargas
1882–1954
President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)
Photo: Governo do Brasil · Public domain · file
Corporate profile
Reported financials
Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.
Revenue
88.8bn USD
Reported for 2018
Corporate structure
Services and products
Fleet on record
Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Petrobras. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By vessel type
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 3 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8768713 | Rig / offshore unit | Marshall Islands | 2008 | 61,018 | — | 92.0 m | — | |
| 9541203 | Rig / offshore unit | Turkey | 2012 | 60,316 | 61,619 | 227.0 m | Samsung Heavy Industries | |
| 8916566 | Rig / offshore unit | Brazil | 1996 | 33,000 | — | 112.0 m | Fincantieri |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 3 vessels attributed to it here, Petrobras is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Brazil is the country of registration for 11 commercial operators in this directory, among which Petrobras ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 8 vessels here. See every operator registered in Brazil.
Founded in 1953, Petrobras is 73 years old. This directory holds 81 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Transpetro
1 on record · est. 1998
Citrosuco
1 on record · est. 2010

Sapura Navegação Marítima S.A.
1 on record · est. 2011
Vale
1 on record · est. 1942

Lloyd Brasileiro
1 on record · est. 1894
Mercosul Line
0 on record · est. 1996
Aliança Navegação e Logística
0 on record · est. 1950
Barcas Rio Consortium
0 on record
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q210047, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Petrobras on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.