São Paulo – This Friday (30), Petrobras’ supply director Paulo Roberto Costa claimed that the Brazilian state-owned company will need to import gasoline to meet domestic demand. Costa told Agência Brasil, Costa said approximately 80,000 barrels will need to be imported per day, 30% more than the 60,000 barrels imported in 2011. According to Costa, another, 150,000 barrels of diesel will have to be imported.
This Friday (30), the state-owned company announced that it produced 2,700,814 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) in February. The volume concerns the company’s combined oil and gas output, domestic and foreign. According to Petrobras, the output is 1.1% lower than in January due to disruptions of service in the Caraguatatuba-Taubaté pipeline, to testing at the Santos Basin, and the unscheduled shutdown of another pipeline.
Domestic oil production was 2,098,064 barrels per day, and natural gas production was 56,849 million cubic metres. Foreign production stood at 245,178 barrels of oil per day and 16,983 million cubic metres of gas per day.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
