Brazil produced a record amount of Natural gas in 2021, up 5% from 2020, averaging at 134 MMm3/d (million cubic meters per day). In 2020, the average was 127 MMm3/d. Oil, in turn, was 2.905 MMbbl/d (million barrels per day), dropping 1.18% from 2.940 MMbbl/d in 2020. National production in December 2021 averaged at 3.670 MMboe/d (million barrels of oil equivalent per day), with 2.838 MMbbl/d of oil and 132 MMm3/d of natural gas. Oil production dropped by 0.5% when compared to the previous month and increased by 4.1% when compared to December 2020. There was a reduction of 3.2% of natural gas production when compared to November and an increase of 4.1% in relation to the same month of 2020. The data are available in the ANP’s Monthly Bulletin of the Production of Oil and Natural Gas for December, which provides detailed data for the national output in December 2021 and a special data for the year 2021 as whole.
Source: DATAGRO (*Translated by Ia Niani)