South America / GoM
Country profile: Brazil
| Location: | Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean |
| Climate: | mostly tropical, but temperate in south |
| Terrain: | mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt |
| Size: | 8511965 sq. km total (Land area: 8456510 sq. km Water area: 55455 sq.km) |
| Population: | 191,908,598 |
| Languages: | Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language); note - less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages |
| Government: | federal republic |
| Capital city: | Brasilia |
| Legal system: | based on Roman codes; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| Currency: | real (BRL) |
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Country profile
Brazil is the 10th largest energy consumer in the world and the third largest in the Western Hemisphere, behind the United States and Canada. Total primary energy consumption in Brazil has increased significantly in recent years. In addition, Brazil has made great strides in increasing its total energy production, particularly oil, over the past decade. Increasing domestic oil production has been a long-term goal of the Brazilian government.
The largest share of Brazil’s total energy consumption comes from oil (48 percent, including ethanol), followed by hydroelectricity (35 percent) and natural gas (7 percent). The large share of hydroelectricity in Brazil’s energy mix represents the dependence of electricity generation on hydroelectric dams. Natural gas is currently a small share of total energy consumption, but attempts to diversify electricity generation from hydropower to gas-fired power plants should cause natural gas consumption to grow in coming years.
Energy production and consumption
| Oil | Gas | |
| Production: | 1 million bbl/day (2006 est.) | 9 billion cu m (2005 est.) |
| Consumption: | 2 million bbl/day (2006 est.) | 17 billion cu m (2005 est.) |
| Exports: | 278,400 bbl/day (2005) | |
| Imports: | 674,500 bbl/day (2004) | 8 billion cu m (2005) |
| Reserves: | 13 billion bbl (2007 est.) | 312 billion cu m (1 January 2006 est.) |
| Major fields: |
Brazil - recent news
| 09 Jun 25 |
Brazil: Petrobras signs partnership to evaluate the transformation of fishing waste into biofuels in the Legal Amazon region Petrobras has entered into a partnership to study the transformation of fishing waste from the Legal Amazon region into energy. |
| 04 Jun 25 |
Brazil: TotalEnergies increases its interest in Lapa field, offshore Brazil TotalEnergies has announced the signature of an agreement with Shell Brasil Petróleo to exchange its 20% non-operated interest in the Gato do Mato project for an additional 3% interest in Lapa, a producing offshore oil field. |
| 27 May 25 |
Brazil: Petrobras reports that the FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão has started production in the Mero field (Libra block), in the pre-salt layer of the Santo Petrobras reports that the FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão has started production in the Mero field (Libra block), in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, more than two months ahead of schedule in its Business Plan. |
| 27 May 25 |
Brazil: Libra Consortium announces first oil from FPSO Mero-4 in Brazilian pre-salt Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda.,a subsidiary of Shell, has announced the start of production of the Alexandre de Gusmão platform vessel (FPSO – floating production, storage and offloading unit) in the Mero field, in the Santos Basin, off the coast of Brazil. |
| 20 May 25 |
Brazil: Petrobras signs R$8.4 billion contract for underwater interconnection of Búzios 11 Project Petrobras has signed an engineering, acquisition, construction and subsea installation (EPCI) contract with Subsea7 for the Búzios 11 Project, worth R$8.4 billion, as a result of a competitive contracting process. |
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Other countries in this region
- Argentina,
- Aruba,
- Bahamas,
- Barbados,
- Belize,
- Bermuda,
- Bolivia,
- Canada,
- Chile,
- Colombia,
- Costa Rica,
- Cuba,
- Dominican Republic,
- Ecuador,
- Falklands,
- French Guiana,
- Grenada,
- Guatemala,
- Gulf of Mexico,
- Guyana,
- Honduras,
- Jamaica,
- Mexico,
- Nicaragua,
- Panama,
- Paraguay,
- Peru,
- Suriname,
- Trinidad,
- Uruguay,
- USA,
- Venezuela
