São Paulo – In April, Brazil produced 2.988 million barrels of oil and gas per day, divided into 2.394 million barrels of oil per day and 94.3 million cubic meters of natural gas, the National Petroleum Agency (ANP, in the Portuguese acronym) reported this Monday (1st).
ANP says oil production was up 11.6% year-on-year in April, but dropped 0.8% from March this year. Gas output was down 13.9% and 1.3%, respectively.
Pre-salt area output reached 885,300 barrels of oil equivalent per day, up 6.3% from March, to 715,100 barrels of oil per day and 27.1 million cubic meters of gas per day. Pre-salt production originates from 49 wells.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum