Agência Brasil*
Rio de Janeiro – Average oil and natural gas production in Brazil in March totalled 2.85 million barrels a day, an increase of 3.2% when compared to production in March 2006. From February to March this year, however, the production volume remained stable, according to information disclosed yesterday (19) by the state-owned oil company.
The figures disclosed show that production of oil in national fields reached a daily average of 1.8 million barrels last month, 3.7% greater than in March 2006.
Campos basin, on the north shore of the state of Rio de Janeiro (SE Brazil) – the largest oil province in the country -, answered to 87% of the oil produced (1.464 million barrels per day). Espírito Santo basin, also in southeastern Brazil, and which is now the second largest producing province, answered to 103,320 barrels per day.
National production of natural gas, in turn, reached around 44 million cubic metres per day. From the basin in the north of Rio came little over 20 million cubic metres a day, whereas Espírito Santo produced 2.6 million cubic metres per day. The second greatest gas production in the country came from the northern state of Amazonas, around 9 million cubic metres per day.
*Translated by Mark Ament
