Norway's Statoil maintained its position as the second largest producer after Brazil's state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Petrobras.

The 47 companies with production in Brazil saw output rise 4.75% to 2.60 million barrels of oil and natural gas equivalent per day (boepd) in June, compared with 2.49 million boepd in a year earlier.

Brazilian output rose 5.68% from May when Brazil produced 2.47 million boepd.

Petrobras produced 2.30 million barrels of oil and gas in the month, or 88% of total output, one of the lowest output shares for the country's dominant oil company ever. Statoil was No. 2 producer saw output with 54,872 boepd in June.

The Statoil-operated Peregrino field in Brazil's offshore Campos basin, with 91,000 boepd of output in June is Brazil's eighth-largest field and the only non-Petrobras-operated area among Brazil's 10 most productive fields.

Statoil owns 60% of the output from Peregrino. China's Sinochem owns the rest. Sinochem was Brazil's number 4 producer in June with 36,581 boepd of output.

Peregrino output rose 54% from a year earlier and about 5% from May.