In September 2019, 293 concession areas, two onerous transfer areas and five sharing areas, operated by 34 companies, were responsible for national production. Of these, 71 are maritime and 229 terrestrial

In September 2019, oil and natural gas production in Brazil totaled 3,738 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (MMboe/d). The Lula, Búzios and Sapinhoá fields, all in the Santos Basin pre-salt, produced 1,924 MMboe/d, which corresponds to around 51,5% of Brazilian production in the month.

Oil production was approximately 2,927 million barrels per day (MMbbl/d), a decrease of 2,1% compared to the previous month and an increase of 17,8% compared to September 2018. natural was 129 million cubic meters per day (MMm3/d), a decrease of 3,4% compared to the previous month and an increase of 14,1% compared to September 2018. The main reason for the drop in production was the scheduled shutdown of the FPSO Pioneiro de Libra, in the Mero field.

September production data are available on the page of the Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin.

Pre-salt

Pre-salt production, from 110 wells, was 1,827 MMbbl/d of oil and 73,3 MMm³/d) of natural gas, totaling 2,289 MMboe/d. There was a reduction of 5,7% compared to the previous month and an increase of 28,3% compared to the same month of 2018. Pre-salt production corresponded to 61,2% of the total produced in Brazil.

Use of natural gas

In September, the use of natural gas was 97,5%. 67,1 MMm³/day were made available to the market. Gas flaring in the month was 3,275 MMm³/d, a decrease of 1,4% compared to the previous month and an increase of 5,2% compared to the same month in 2018.

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producing fields

Lula, in the Santos Basin, produced the most oil, an average of 962 MMbbl/d. It was also the largest producer of natural gas: an average of 39,7 MMm3/d.

Origin of production

Offshore fields produced 96,4% of the oil and 80% of the natural gas. The fields operated by Petrobras produced 92,9% of the oil and natural gas. Regarding the fields operated by Petrobras, with exclusive participation, they produced 44% of the total. National production occurred in 7.221 wells, 655 offshore and 6.566 onshore.

Highlights

Estreito, in the Potiguar Basin, had the highest number of onshore producing wells: 1.105.

Marlim Sul, in the Campos Basin, was the offshore field with the highest number of producing wells: 74.

Petrobras Platform 66 (P-66), producing in Campo de Lula through seven wells connected to it, produced 143,8 Mbbl/d and was the facility with the highest oil production.

The Polo Arara facility, producing in the Arara Azul, Araracanga, Carapanaúba, Cupiúba, Rio Urucu and Sudoeste Urucu fields, through 36 wells connected to it, produced 8,6 MMm³/d and was the facility with the highest natural gas production.

Marginal accumulation fields

These fields produced 48,5 bbl/d of oil and 1,0 Mm³/d of natural gas. The Itaparica field, operated by Newo, was the biggest producer, with 16,7 boe/d.

Further information

In September 2019, 293 concession areas, two onerous transfer areas and five sharing areas, operated by 34 companies, were responsible for national production. Of these, 71 are maritime and 229 terrestrial. Of the total production areas, 10 are related to contracts for areas containing marginal accumulations.

The average API grade was 27,5, with 36,4% of production considered light oil (>=31°API), 52,7% medium oil (>=22 API and <31 API) and 10,9% heavy oil (<22 API).

The mature onshore basins (fields/long-term tests in the Espírito Santo, Potiguar, Recôncavo, Sergipe and Alagoas basins) produced 109,7 Mboe/d, of which 87,5 thousand bbl/d of oil and 3,5 MM m³/ d of natural gas. Of this total, 101,6 thousand boe/d were produced by Petrobras and 8,1 thousand boe/d were produced by concessions not operated by Petrobras, of which: 369 boe/d in Alagoas, 5.238 boe/d in Bahia, 17 boe /d in Espírito Santo, 2.298 boe/d in Rio Grande do Norte and 188 boe/d in Sergipe.

Source: ANP