According to the ANP, the measure complies with the decree released last week, which requires the disclosure every month, up to the tenth working day, of the national average of the last six months of LPG.
A significant portion of August’s output was extracted from pre-salt layers. They reached 2.764 barrels a day—2.193 million barrels of oil, 90.8 million cubic meters of natural gas daily.
The Tupi Field alone—Brazil’s top producer—accounted for 32.8 percent of the country’s production, with a daily 1.2 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Considering the product extracted from pre-salt layers alone, the output reached 2.07 million barrels of oil and 88.3 million m³ of natural gas
The production of pre-salt stemmed from 117 wells and accounted for 70.7 percent of the country’s production.
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