Oil and gas production in the country reached 4.897 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) in 2025. The result is 13.3% higher than the previous year and represents the largest volume ever recorded in Brazil. The previous record was 4.344 million boe/d, in 2023.
You data are from the National Petroleum AgencyNatural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), the sector’s regulatory body, linked to the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
Boe is a unit of measurement that standardizes the volume of natural gas and oil, converting the gas to the energy value equivalent to a barrel of crude oil. This way, it is possible to add up production.
The record performance in 2025 confirms the extractive industry as one of the drivers of the national industry. The production of Brazilian industry grew 0.6% last year, with the extractive industry advancing 4.9%, as announced this Tuesday (3) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
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Gas and oil record
Specific oil production reached a record of 3.770 million barrels/day last year, 12.3% above the previous year.
Natural gas production reached 179 million cubic meters per day (m³/d), also the highest ever recorded, an increase of 17% compared to 2024.
Pre-salt
When detailing the origin of oil and gas production, the ANP identifies the leading role of pre-salt fields – reservoirs drilled at a depth of 5,000 to 7,000 meters.
The pre-salt represents 79.63% of oil equivalent production. Post-salt accounts for 15.45%; and onshore fields, by 4.92%.
The five offshore fields with the highest oil and gas production are:
- Tupi: 21.36% of maritime production
- Búzios: 20.47%
- Mere: 14.44%
- Itapu: 4.19%
- Humpback: 4.14%
By basin, Santos is the production champion, with 77.79% of everything extracted from the seabed. Next comes the Campos basin, with 19.67%. Both are on the Southeast coast.
Rio de Janeiro is the largest oil producer in the country, with 87.8% of the oil removed last year. From 2024 to 2025, Espírito Santo (5.12%) took second place from São Paulo (4.89%).
Petrobras
Headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Petrobras is the largest oil and gas producer in the country. In December, the fields operated by the state-owned company ─ in consortium with other oil companies or not ─ accounted for 90.03% of national production.
The fields in which Petrobras operates alone produced 23.9% of national production in December.
