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Brazil oil output tops 4 mi barrels a day in September

Pre-salt production accounted for 74.11% of the total
Douglas Corrêa
Published on 21/10/2022 - 11:10
Rio de Janeiro
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Brazil’s total oil and gas production in September amounted to 4.048 million barrels of oil equivalent per day—3.148 million barrels of oil per day plus a daily 143.07 million cubic meters of natural gas, as reported by national authority ANP.

This is the second time the total output exceeds the 4 million threshold, the agency added. The first had been in January 2020.

Production in the pre-salt layer reached 3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day—74.11 percent of the national total. The Tupi field ranked first, with 887,71 thousand barrels produced.