Economy
Oil, gas output totals 3 mi barrels a day in August
Of this amount, 2.2 million come from the pre-salt layer
Vitor Abdala
Published on 03/09/2019 - 14:05
Rio de Janeiro
The total production of oil and gas of Petrobras averaged a daily 3 million barrels of oil equivalent in August this year. The output peak reached 3.1 million barrels in one day, in record figures.
The average for pre-salt production also reported a record high in August—2.2 million barrels of oil equivalent, with a 2,5 million apex in one day.
Barrels of oil equivalent per day is a unit used by the oil industry to calculate the amount of oil (measured in barrels) and gas (measures in cubic meters) combined.
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