Rio de Janeiro – Gas and oil fields at the pre-salt layer in the Santos Basin, on Brazil’s southeast coast, saw all-time high output in December 2013, at 346,100 barrels of oil and 12.1 million cubic metres of natural gas per day on average. As a result, total pre-salt output stood at 422,100 barrels of oil equivalent (oil and natural gas) per day, up 2.5% from the preceding month. The information was released in a report issued this Monday (3rd) by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP, in the Portuguese acronym).
Overall, Brazilian oil output averaged at 2.11 million barrels per day, up 1.4% from November and up 0.2% from December 2012. Natural gas output was a record at 81.6 million cubic metres per day, up 3.2% from November and 7.1% from December 2012. Combined oil and gas production stood at 2.611 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.
The Marlim Sul field, at the Campos Basin, remained the leading oil producing field in the country, averaging at 280,200 barrels per day. The Lula field, at the Santos Basin, was the leading gas producing field at 6.3 million cubic metres a day.
According to the ANP, Petrobras-operated fields answered to 91.9% of oil and gas production in the country. Offshore fields yielded 91.9% of total domestic oil production and 72% of gas production.
The P-56 rig, stationed at the Marlim Sul Field and covering nine different wells, produced 145,200 barrels of oil equivalent per day, making it the most productive rig in the country.
In December, 313 concessions, held by 25 concessionaires, accounted for domestic production in Brazil. Of those, 82 are offshore concessions and 233 are onshore ones.
*With information from the ANBA Newsroom. Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
