The pre-salt fields stand among the world’s oil fields which operate with the lowest CO2 emissions. The average emission of CO2 equivalent per barrel produced in the world industry is 70% higher than in the pre-salt - 17kg of CO2 per barrel produced in the world against 10 kg per boe in the pre-salt (Tupi and Búzios fields).
Brazil this decade expects to gradually add 3 million barrels per day of oil and gas to its production but cannot speed up those plans to offset a ban on Russian oil, top oil regulator Rodolfo Saboia told Reuters last week. One of the largest and fastest growing non-OPEC oil producers, the South American country .