Santos Basin will open a demand prepared by the ANP based on the commitments of the operators.

According to the National Petroleum Agency – ANP, 65 of the 250 wells will be drilled in the Santos Basin by those operated next year. The remaining basins with responsibility for development planned for 2020 are Potiguar (53), Sergipe (46), Campos (41), Espírito Santo (29), Recôncavo (13), Parnaíba (3) and Alagoas (3).

Petrobras operates almost half of the fields in the development stage in the country so far. The most evident of the 84 fields currently are the Santos (22), Recôncavo (17), Potiguar (11), Campos (8) and Espírito Santo (5) basins.

In all of Brazil, there are 303 producing fields and 323 exploration blocks contracted to 47 national and 50 foreign groups. The commitments to drill exploratory wells in 2020 will be presented by the oil companies to the ANP on October 30th.

In the first half of this year, the number of new drillings (exploratory and development) decreased by 20% compared to the same period last year, totaling 79 wells compared to 103 in 2018. Compared to the previous six months, there was a 10% reduction

52 wells were drilled on land and 27 at sea between January and June this year. The Potiguar Basin accounted for 21,5% of the total (17 wells), accompanied by the Sergipe (14 wells), Santos (13), Campos (12), Espírito Santo (10), Parnaíba (7), Recôncavo (four ), Solimões (1) and Alagoas (1).

Only the Sergipe Basin had offshore wells with drilling started in 2019, in addition to Campos and Santos. The wells drilled in the Sergipe Basin, both are from Petrobras' BM-SEAL-4 block (3-BRSA-1367-SES and 3-BRSA-1368-SES), with the Petrobras 10.000 rig, operated by Transocean.

In 2019, the oil companies Equinor, Shell, Enauta and Total began drilling on the Brazilian coast, Equinor having three wells in Campos and two in Santos, Shell two in Campos and one in Santos, Enauta two in Santos and Total one in Saints.

Petrobras began drilling onshore wells, 16 in the Potiguar Basin, 12 in Sergipe, nine in Espírito Santo, two in the Recôncavo and one in Alagoas. In addition to the state-owned company, Eneva, with seven wells in Parnaíba, BMG (1 in Espírito Santo), Imetame and Maha Energy (1 in Recôncavo in each case), Phoenix (1 in Potiguar) and Rosneft (1 in Solimões).

According to the ANP, the operators' commitments associated with the E&P contracts provide for the drilling of just over 30 exploratory wells and around 150 development wells in 2019.

Between July and December, 28 blocks will have their first exploratory period coming to an end, with emphasis on Shell (nine in Barreirinhas) and Eneva (seven in Parnaíba), while Imetame's REC-T-163 will have its second exploratory period expire . In the same period, plans for evaluating the discovery of BT-PN-1 and BT-PN-4, by Eneva, in the Paranaíba Basin are expected to be completed.

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