The National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) announced yesterday (5) its Production Report. The document indicates that the production of oil and natural gas in Brazil in March totaled approximately 2.643 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, with 2.119 million barrels per day of oil and 83.4 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. In comparison with the previous month had oil production increase of approximately 1.4% and 14.4% compared to March 2013. Already the production of natural gas increased by approximately 8% compared to March 2013 and about 0.2% in the previous month, surpassing the record set in February 2014, when production reached 83.2 million cubic meters.

The production in pre-salt exceeded 2.4% in the February, totaling 483,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day, 395,900 barrels of oil and 13.9 million cubic meters per day of gas natural. The production originated in 28 wells located in fields of Baleia Azul, Baleia Franca, Jubarte, Pirambu, Caratinga, Barracuda, Linguado, Lula, Marlim Leste, Pampo, Sapinhoá and Trilha.

The Marlim Sul field in the Campos Basin, was the largest oil production averaging 263,900 barrels per day. The largest producer of natural gas was Mexilhão field in the Santos Basin, with a daily average of 6.7 million cubic meters. The P-52 platform, located in the Roncador field, was the unit that most produced  in the period with a volume of 135.100 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The production coming from onshore mature basins was 175 Mboe/d, and 142.7 Mbbl/d of oil and 5.1 million m³/d natural gas. Of this total, 3.9 Mboe/d were produced by concessions not operated by Petrobras, with 340 boe/d in the State of Alagoas, 1,894 boe/d in Bahia, 45 boe/d in the Espírito Santo, 1,296 boe/d in Rio Grande do Norte and 282 boe/d in Sergipe.

The field with the highest number of producing wells was Canto do Amaro, in the Potiguar basin, with 1,125 wells. Marlin and Ubarana, located in the Campos and Potiguar basins respectively, were offshore fields with the highest number of producing wells, both with 52 in total.