The pre-salt giant, which has battled maintenance issues and stagnating production at mature fields, also said oil output was down 4.8% from the year-ago figure to 1.923 million barrels per day.
The oil figures were an improvement of 3.8% from March, however.
Pre-salt production was also up 2.3% from the prior month at 357,600 boepd.
Natural gas production in April, by contrast, was 74.7
