Oil production in Brazil drops 1.2% in 2021 -ANP

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to preliminary data from the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), the average oil production in Brazil last year was 2.905 million barrels per day (barrels/day)

The average oil production in Brazil in 2021 was 2.905 million barrels per day (barrels/day), down 1.2% compared to 2020, according to preliminary data from ANP.

Meanwhile, the average production of natural gas in the year was 133.74 million cubic meters per day (m3/day), an increase of 4.98% in the year-on-year comparison.

With this, the total Brazilian oil and gas production in 2021 was 3.74 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/day), stable compared to the previous year.

In December 2021 alone, the country produced 2.8 million barrels of oil per day, a 4% growth compared to the previous year’s same month. In the last month of the year, natural gas production was 132.33 million m3/day, an increase of 4.14%.

Compared to November, oil production in December fell 0.5%, while natural gas extraction dropped 3.19% compared to the previous month.

In the month, pre-salt production reached 2.13 million barrels/day of oil and 91.68 million m3/day of natural gas. The layer below the salt was responsible for 73.84% of all Brazilian oil and gas production in December.

According to the ANP, the country’s largest oil and gas producing field last month was Tupi (formerly the Lula field), in the Santos Basin pre-salt, with the delivery of 864,000 barrels/day of oil and 40.97 million m3/day of natural gas.

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