{"id":385242,"date":"2025-04-01T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=385242"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:51:39","slug":"brazilian-oil-production-increases-by-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-oil-production-increases-by-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian oil production increases by 1.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rio de Janeiro \u2013 <strong>Brazilian oil production<\/strong> reached 3.488 million barrels per day in February this year, according to data released on Tuesday (1<sup>st<\/sup>) in Rio de Janeiro by the country&#8217;s oil regulator <strong>ANP<\/strong>. The result was 1.1% higher than the previous month and 1.2% higher than observed in February 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of this, 2.74 million barrels per day were extracted from wells located in the <strong>pre-salt layer<\/strong>, accounting for 78.6% of the country\u2019s total production. Offshore fields were responsible for 97.4% of the 3.488 million barrels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natural gas production reached 158.76 million cubic meters per day, showing a 1.2% decrease compared to the previous month. However, when compared to February 2024, there was a 6.8% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Natural gas<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The pre-salt layer accounted for 79.4% of the country\u2019s natural gas production (126.02 million cubic meters). Of the total gas produced in Brazil, 87.1% came from offshore fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tupi field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, was the largest producing area in February, with 760,730 barrels of oil (21.8% of the country&#8217;s total production) and 38.17 million cubic meters of gas (24% of the total) per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform that led production was the FPSO Guanabara, located in the Mero field in the Santos Basin, which extracted 183,580 barrels of oil (5.3% of the country\u2019s total) and 12.03 million cubic meters of gas (7.6% of the total) per day from the pre-salt layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-petrobras-eyes-africa-to-boost-reserves\/\">Brazil\u2019s Petrobras eyes Africa to boost reserves<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-186735\">Supplied\/Petrobras<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country produced 3.48 million barrels of oil per day in February, with the largest volume coming from offshore fields and the pre-salt layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":186735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[9575,9534,49082,52809,1964,10156,2545],"class_list":{"0":"post-385242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-anp-en","9":"tag-brazil-en","10":"tag-gas-2","11":"tag-offshore-fields","12":"tag-oil","13":"tag-petrobras-en","14":"tag-pre-salt"},"wps_subtitle":"The country produced 3.48 million barrels of oil per day in February, with the largest volume coming from offshore fields and the pre-salt layer.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}