Aug 6 (ANP) Brazil broke a record for oil and natural gas production in June of this year, with 4.9 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. This unprecedented result, released in the Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin of the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels (ANP), affiliated with the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), considers pre-salt, post-salt, and onshore production.
Oil production reached 3.7 million barrels per day, a 10.1% increase compared to June 2024. Natural gas production reached 181 million cubic meters per day, a 20.9% increase compared to June of last year. Considering only the pre-salt layer, which accounts for 78.8% of the national total, a record was also set, with 3.8 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. The volume is 12.7% higher compared to the same month in 2024. Offshore fields accounted for 97.6% of the oil and 85.3% of the natural gas produced in the country.
The Tupi field, in the pre-salt Santos Basin, was the largest producer, registering 794,000 barrels of oil per day and 40 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. The installation with the highest production was the Guanabara platform ship, in the shared Mero field, with 183,000 barrels of oil and 12 million cubic meters of natural gas per day.
