Total production in the three contracts under sharing regime presented a daily average of 55,000 barrels of oil (bpd) in April 2021. The Mero Development Area was responsible for 40,000 bpd, followed by Entorno de Sapinhoá and Tartaruga Verde Sudoeste. The information is part of the Monthly Bulletin of Production Sharing Contracts, prepared by Pre-Sal Petróleo (PPSA), which manages the contracts on behalf of the Union. Since 2017, the beginning of the historical series, the accumulated production under the production sharing regime is 53.9 million barrels of oil.

The daily average of the Union's total oil surplus in the three production-sharing contracts was 12,800 bpd in April, of which 6 thousand bpd in the Mero Development Area and 6.7 thousand bpd in the vicinity of Sapinhoá. The accumulated share of the Union's oil surplus since 2017 is 9 million barrels of oil.

Natural gas 

Natural gas produced an available-for-sale production of 302,000 m³ on average per day, referring to the two contracts with commercial use, 261,000 m³ per day in the surroundings of Sapinhoá and 41 thousand m³ per day in Tartaruga Verde Sudoeste. The daily average of the total surplus in natural gas was 172,000 m³ per day.

Since 2017, the accumulated production of natural gas with commercial use totals 235 million m3. The Union's accumulated natural gas surplus since 2017 amounts to 70 million m³.

Currently, of the 17 contracts operating under a production sharing regime, three are in production – Mero Development Area (Libra), Surrounding Sapinhoá and Tartaruga Verde Sudoeste, operating four FPSOS and 18 wells.

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