Development CAPEX for 116 Brazilian oil & gas developments — from the Santos pre-salt supergiants and the Campos deep-water fields to the mature onshore basins of the Northeast and the Amazon — re-expressed in a common 2026 price basis with the CAF Cost Index and read against the CAF Location Factor.
What's inside
Table of contents — 10 chapters
1Executive summary
2Brazil upstream in context
3How the number is built
4Location Factor — Brazil (Kpex Z.4)
5The benchmark
6Asset map — by basin
7CAPEX by functional unit
8The 116 developments
9Field profiles
10Data quality, referential fields & sources
Figures & charts — 2
▸Unit CAPEX (US$/boe, 2026) — P10 / P50 / P90
▸Benchmark cost curve (log-log, with project points)
Tables — 12
▪Table 1 — 2023 production by basin (ANP, kboe/d; gas at 6 Mcf = 1 boe, gross).
▪Table 2 — Development archetypes and how the reconstructed (B) CAPEX is priced (2025 basis before calibration).
▪Table 3 — Calibration of the reconstruction on documented (A) projects (MMUSD; ratio = A escalated / B before calibration).
▪Table 4 — Brazil location-factor drivers (Kpex Z.4): institutional and infrastructure drivers with source, rating, percentile and factor.
▪Table 5 — CAPEX by development archetype (2026 basis).
▪Table 6 — CAPEX by producing basin (2026 basis): number of fields, aggregate development CAPEX and recoverable reserves.
▪Table 7 — CAPEX by operator (2026 basis; operator as reported to ANP in 2023, current corporate names).
▪Table 8 — Functional-unit split by archetype (indicative Kpex allocation, DRAFT) and portfolio CAPEX by functional unit.
▪Table 9 — Asset register: the 116 Brazilian upstream developments with basin, operator, archetype, recoverable reserves, escalated CAPEX, unit CAPEX and data grades (CAPEX A = documented, B = reconstructed; EUR A = declared/certified or final cumulative, B = ANP data with explicit estimate).
▪Table 10 — Referential fields held outside the fit.
▪Table 11 — Validation points and anchors not used in calibration (2026 basis).
▪Table 12 — Bibliography: 37 sources, the figure each supports and its link.
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