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Petrobras Misses Production Target for 2018

Written by Paulo Nogueira
Published on 17/01/2019 at 07:32
Petrobras perde meta de produção para 2018
A produção doméstica foi afetada por atrasos de FPSO e desinvestimentos
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Domestic Production Was Affected by FPSO Delays and Divestments

The Brazilian oil giant Petrobras recorded a 5.5% drop in domestic oil production in 2018 and did not meet the proposed target, affected by delays in the start of some production units in the pre-salt province and by asset sales. Petrobras ended 2018 with an average production of 2.034 million barrels per day of oil in Brazil, the lowest level since 2014 – down from 2.153 million bpd in 2017. The company expects to end the year with a production of 2.1 million bpd.

Natural gas production in the country fell by 1.6% in 2018, to 78.3 million cubic meters per day, while total hydrocarbon production in Brazil and abroad decreased by 5%, to 2.627 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Despite four large floating production, storage, and offloading vessels entering operation for Petrobras in 2018, the first oil from three other FPSOs – P-67, P-68, and P-76 – ended up being postponed to 2019.

Petrobras did not set a national oil production target for 2019, but stated that it expects total hydrocarbon production to increase to 2.8 million boept this year.

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Paulo Nogueira

Graduated in Electrical Engineering from one of the country's technical education institutions, the Instituto Federal Fluminense - IFF (formerly CEFET), he worked for several years in the offshore oil and gas, energy, and construction sectors. Today, with over 8,000 publications in online magazines and blogs on the energy sector, the focus is to provide real-time information on the Brazilian job market, macro and microeconomics, and entrepreneurship. For questions, suggestions, and corrections, please contact us at informe@clickpetroleoegas.com.br. Please note that we do not accept resumes at this contact.

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