Petrobras announces that its average domestic oil and natural gas production in January was 2.47 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), and oil and natural gas production abroad was 183,000 boed, totaling 2.65 million barrels boed. Average oil production was 2 million barrels per day (bpd) in Brazil and 92,000 bpd abroad.

Average daily production in the pre-salt province reached 1.03 million boed, while pre-salt oil output operated by Petrobras averaged 822,000 bpd. Natural gas production in Brazil, excluding the liquefied volume, averaged 74.1 million m³/day.

The Company’s oil and gas output in January was 7.1 % down on the previous month (2.66 million boed), primarily due to scheduled maintenance stoppages on high-production platforms, notably P-58 (Parque das Baleias, with a current output of around 120,000 bpd), FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba (Lula, with a current output of around 130,000 bpd) and P-48 (Barracuda/Caratinga, with a current output of around 50,000 bpd).

Oil and gas production abroad

In January, oil production abroad averaged 92,000 bpd, 4.2% down on the previous month, mainly due to a production shutdown in the Nigerian Agbami field for maintenance (already concluded) and energy cuts due to heavy rainfall in the Argentinian Medanito field.

Natural gas production averaged 15.5 million m³/d, a 4.3% reduction over the previous month, mostly in the Hadrian South field in the US, due to a shutdown to modify the platform’s gas plant.