Oil production in Brazil started the year on a high, totaling 3.03 million barrels per day in January on average, an increase of 5.5% compared to the same month last year, with an increase in the pre-salt and of the post-salt, indicated data from the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP).
In comparison with December, there was an increase of 6.8% in Brazilian oil production.
It is the first time that Brazilian pumping exceeds 3 million bpd since September 2021.
The average production of natural gas in the country, in turn, was 136.97 million cubic meters per day (m³/d) in January, up 0.4% compared to the same period in 2021 and an increase of 3.6 % versus December.
Adding oil and natural gas, the country’s total average production in January totaled 3.89 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), against 3.73 million boed in January last year and 3.67 million boed in December. .
Pre-salt production in January totaled 2.91 million boed, compared to 2.7 million boed in December and 2.63 million boed in January 2021.
Post-salt maritime production increased to 790 thousand boed, against 746.1 thousand boed in December and 849.55 thousand boed in January last year.
Petrobras, the country’s main producer, produced 2.2 million bpd in January as a concessionaire, up 2.8% from a year earlier.
The Anglo-Dutch Shell, the country’s second largest producer and one of Petrobras’ most important pre-salt partners, produced 355,768 bpd in January, up 3.6% compared to January 2021.
Producers and distributors will have to report stocks daily to the agency
Producers, storage and distributors of fuels will have to send the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) daily information on fuel stocks in the country, according to the resolution approved this Thursday (17) by the agency’s board.
The new regulation, which has yet to be published in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU)will bring the rules, obligations and deadlines for the daily submission of stock data to the ANP.
The measure aims to secure the supply of fuel in the country, after Petrobras’ monopoly was effectively broken after an agreement with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), which determined the sale of part of its refining park.
So far, only one unit has come under the control of the private sector, with the sale of the Landulpho Alves Refinery (Rlam), in Bahia, to the Arab investment fund Mubadala.
“The objective of the initiative is to allow the ANP to more closely monitor the supply of fuels, through the daily monitoring of inventories and information related to supply, demand and logistical flows, using a business intelligence as a technological solution for data analysis”, says the ANP in a note.
In this way, the ANP will be able to identify certain situations of risk of shortages in advance, enabling the adoption of measures aimed at guaranteeing the supply of fuel to the population.
The regulated agents responsible for sending the daily data will be those related to the activities of production, storage and distribution of fuels, which will send information on the stocks of gasoline A, gasoline C (with the addition of anhydrous ethanol, sold at gas stations), LPG (gas cooking oil), diesel oil A, diesel oil B (with the addition of biodiesel, sold at gas stations), marine diesel oil, hydrous ethanol (sold at gas stations), anhydrous ethanol, biodiesel, fuel oil, aviation kerosene (QAV) and gasoline of aviation (GAV).
The ANP’s proposal is based on Law No. 9,478/97 (Petroleum Law) which establishes, as one of the agency’s attributions, the guarantee of the supply of oil, natural gas and its derivatives, and biofuels, throughout the national territory. .
As before, only Petrobras produced oil products in the country, the state company itself was responsible for maintaining and controlling the supply.
Currently, the ANP receives data on fuel supply on a monthly basis and with a delay of up to 15 days in relation to the closing of the reference month.
*With Estadão Content.
Source: CNN Brasil
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