Brazil’s March oil output reached 2.1 million barrels per day (bopd) – 14.4 percent higher than March 2013. The country’s natural gas production, in turn, went up to a daily 83.4 million cubic meters (m³/d) in March, a new record, up 8 percent from the year-earlier month.
The figures were released Tuesday (May 6) by the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (“ANP”) on their website, and indicate that Brazil’s oil and gas production in March amounted to approximately 2.64 million of barrels equivalent (oil and gas combined) per day (boepd).
The data show that 91.1 percent of the oil and natural gas production derive from fields operated by Petrobras. The statistics further demonstrate that the output in pre-salt oceanic fields surpassed that of February by 2.4%, reaching 483.4 thousand boepd. The oil output stood at 395.9 thousand bpd, and that of natural gas at 13.9 million m³/d.
According to ANP, the country’s pre-salt oil production started in 28 wells, with the Marlim Sul Field, on the Campos Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, reporting the highest output rate, an average of 263.9 thousand barrels per day. On the other hand, the biggest natural gas producer was the Mexilhão Field, on the Santos Basin, São Paulo, with an average of 6.7 million m³/d.
Translated by Fabrício Ferreira
Fonte: Brazil’s oil output up 14.4% in March
