Brazil’s direct sales of crude will more than double this year and rise sharply this decade, as oil majors deliver more of their output to the government under production-sharing agreements, according to a state official. Government-owned volumes, until now nearly irrelevant, are ramping up and will reach 1.127 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2031, according to Eduardo Gerk, head of Pré-Sal Petróleo SA (PPSA), the state-run company that oversees the country’s production-sharing contracts. Brazil produces about 3 million bpd of crude today, with the government stake responding for less than 1% of the total. The government stake is projected to rise to about 20% of the country’s total production in 2031, when total country production is estimated at more than 5 million barrels per day of crude, Gerk said.
Sources: Reuters/Datamar News