Rio de Janeiro – This Friday (16th), Petrobras reported all-time high figures, for the second consecutive month, in annual, monthly, and daily deliveries of natural gas in Brazil. Last month, the oil company delivered 45.1 million cubic metres of the product per day. On October 11th, deliveries stood at 49.6 million cubic metres.
From January to October, deliveries averaged at 42.2 million cubic metres – up 14% from the daily average in the first ten months of 2011, at 37 million cubic metres per day.
In a press statement, the company ascribed the positive result to investment in natural gas production projects under program Plano de Antecipação da Produção de Gás (Plangás). “Since 2008, several new fields went into production as part of the Plangás, highlighting non-associated gas fields in Canapu and Camarupim, in the state of Espírito Santo; and in Mexilhão, Uruguá and Tambaú, in the Santos Basin. The beginning of operations at the Caraguatatuba Gas Treatment Station and the Caraguatatuba-Taubaté Gas Pipeline, in the state of São Paulo, has also contributed to the result,” according to the company.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
