Total oil and natural gas production in November in Brazil reached 3.978 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), of which 3.095 million barrels of oil per day (bbl/d) and 140.380 million cubic meters of natural gas per day (m³/d). The data are part of the Monthly Bulletin of Oil and Natural Gas Production released today (3) by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP).
According to the bulletin, oil production dropped by 4.6% compared to the previous month, but compared to November 2021, the volume means an advance of 8.5%. In natural gas, there was a decrease of 5.6% in production compared to October. In the opposite direction, it registered an increase of 2.8% in relation to November of the previous year.
According to the ANP, production stoppages in pre-salt areas led to the declines in performance in November. “The drop in oil and gas production was mainly due to scheduled and unscheduled production stoppages at the FPSOs Cidade de Ilha Bela, Cidade de Caraguatatuba and Cidade de Mangaratiba, located in the Pre-Salt”, he informed.
Pre-salt
The bulletin also shows that pre-salt production reached 2.964 million boe/d, which is equivalent to 74.5% of Brazilian production. In 129 wells, 2.327 million bbl/d of oil and 101.35 million m³/d of natural gas were produced. The volume represents a drop of 5.7% compared to the previous month and an increase of 9.2% compared to the same month in 2021.
Natural gas
The ANP informed that the use of natural gas reached 97.4% in November. “50.53 million m³/d were made available to the market and 3.65 million m³/d were burned. There was an increase in flaring of 25.6% compared to the previous month (due to the commissioning of FPSO Guanabara and the scheduled stoppage of FPSO Cidade de Ilha Bela) and a reduction of 3.6% compared to November 2021”, added the agency regulator.
fields and facilities
Offshore fields produced 97.6% of the oil and 84.7% of the natural gas. In the fields operated by Petrobras, alone or in consortium with other companies, production reached 91.61% of the total produced. With 812.49 thousand bbl/d of oil and 38.38 million m³/d of natural gas, the biggest producer, in November, was the Tupi field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt.
Among the installations, the one with the highest oil production was FPSO Carioca (Mv-30). The platform, whose acronym in English is Floating Productions Storge and Offloading, produced 173,746 thousand bbl/d in the fields of Sépia, Sépia Leste and Sépia Eco. The one with the highest production of natural gas was the FPSO Guanabara, with the production of 9.24 million m³/d of natural gas in the shared deposit of Mero.
The Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin can be accessed at agency page.
