Rio de Janeiro – In September, Brazilian oil production stood at 2.099 million barrels per day, 2.3% more than in August and 5.1% more than in September 2010. The figures were culled from the Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin issued by the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuel Agency (ANP) on its website this Thursday (3rd).
The Bulletin points out that natural gas output stood at 65 million cubic metres per day, 2.1% more than in September last year, but 1.9% less than in August this year. Oil and gas production stood at 2.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.
According to the ANP, production in the pre-salt area continues to increase. In September, 113,100 barrels of oil and 3.5 million cubic metres of gas were produced per day. In terms of barrels of oil equivalent (oil and natural gas), production stood at 135,000 barrels per day, 1.4% more than in August.
Also, 90.8% of all oil produced in Brazil came from Petrobras’ oilfields, the leading producer being the Roncador field, in the Campos Basin. The leading producer of natural gas in the country is the River Urucu field, in the Solimões River Basin.
Individually, the well at Lula Field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, remains the leading producer of oil, with an average daily extraction volume of 27,500 barrels of oil equivalent.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
