The BBC reported BP with its pivot hopes to increase production to between 2.3 million and 2.5 million barrels of oil per day by 2030. The Brazil find also comes at the same time BP announced that it started its Argos Southwest Expansion in the Gulf of Mexico. With Argos, BP is adding 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

BP has made its largest global oil and gas discovery in 25 years in Brazil's Santos basin, it said on Monday, in what may be a major boost for the British company's strategic shift away from renewable energy to refocus on fossil fuels.

Amid a pivot back to its fossil fuel roots and away from renewable energy, Britain's BP said it had made its largest oil and gas discovery in 25 years.