Brazil produced, in the last month of April, 2.999 million barrels a day (Mmbbl/d) of oil, an increase of 0.6% compared to the previous month. Compared to April 2021, there was an expansion of 0.8%. A further 137 million daily cubic meters (MMm3/d) of natural gas were produced, up 1.8% from March and 4.1% from April of the previous year. In total, 3.860 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (MMboe/d) were produced.
The data were released today (3) by the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) and are available in the Monthly Bulletin of Oil and Natural Gas Production. They can also be accessed, interactively, in the Dynamic Panels of Oil and Natural Gas Production.
Pre-salt
Production in the pre-salt region recorded, in April, a volume of 2.911 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (MMboe/d), with 2.298 MMbbl/d of oil and 97.6 MMm3/d of natural gas, which corresponded to 75.4% of national production. According to the ANP, there was an increase of 1.2% compared to the previous month and 5.4% compared to April 2021. Production came from 129 wells.
In April, the use of natural gas was 98%. 52.2 MMm³/day were made available to the market. Gas flaring in the month reached 2.8 MMm³/d, showing a reduction of 7.3% compared to the previous month, and of 4.5% compared to the same month in 2021.
In the month analyzed, the offshore fields produced 97.3% of the oil and 86.5% of the natural gas. The fields operated by Petrobras were responsible for 94.4% of the oil and natural gas produced in Brazil.
highlights
The Tupi field, located in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, was the largest producer of oil and natural gas in April, recording 858 MMbbl/d of oil and 41.2 MMm3/d of natural gas. The Petrobras 77 platform, operating in the Búzios field through five interconnected wells, produced 158,096 Mbbl/d of oil and was the facility with the highest oil production.
The Polo Arara facility, producing in the fields of Arara Azul, Araracanga, Carapanaúba, Cupiúba, Rio Urucu and Leste do Uruco, through 33 wells, had the highest production of natural gas, accounting for 7,756 Mmm³/d.
Estreito, in the Potiguar Basin, had the highest number of onshore producing wells (952), while Tupi, in the Santos Basin, was the offshore field with the highest number (64).
The marginal accumulation fields, in turn, produced 372.3 boe/d, being 136 bbl/d of oil and 37.6 Mm³/d of natural gas. The Iraí field, operated by Petroborn, was the largest producer, with 212.9 boe/d.
Areas
In April of this year, national production came from 275 areas granted, five areas of transfer of rights and six areas of sharing, operated by 42 companies. Of these areas, 62 are offshore and 224 onshore, 12 of which are related to contracts for areas containing marginal accumulations. Production took place in 6,089 wells, of which 447 are offshore and 5,642 onshore.
The ANP bulletin also reveals that mature onshore basins (fields/long-term tests in the Espírito Santo, Potiguar, Recôncavo, Sergipe and Alagoas basins) produced 91,380 Mboe/d, of which 68,120 Mbbl/d of oil and 3,698 MMm³/d of natural gas. Of this total, 42.9 thousand boe/d were produced by Petrobras and 48.5 thousand boe/d were produced by concessions not operated by the national company, of which: 19,884 in Bahia, 19,649 in Rio Grande do Norte, 7,312 in Alagoas, 1,477 in Espírito Santo and 178 boe/d in Sergipe.
