Aiming to attract even more investments to the oil and gas sector in Brazil over the next few years, the ANP accelerates the Permanent Sharing Offer cycle and is now studying the inclusion of new pre-salt oil blocks in a possible future auction.
The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) has new studies in progress for the inclusion of some pre-salt oil blocks in a possible new auction, located in the Santos Basin and in the Campos Basin. In addition, the agency also included new blocks of fuel this week in the Permanent Sharing Offer cycle, to expand investments in the sector.
New auction of pre-salt oil blocks may be held by the ANP, which is now seeking the necessary geological studies for the continuity of the process
Although the Permanent Sharing Offer is still the concession regime for oil blocks in the pre-salt region most used by the Federal Government today, the ANP is studying the possibility of holding a new auction with blocks of this type.
The agency still believes that a traditional concession round could attract strong investments to the oil and natural gas sector in Brazil and is now turning its efforts to that.
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In this way, the ANP started geological and economic studies this past week on the indication of four pre-salt blocks for inclusion, in the future, in a bidding round in an auction with the largest players in the oil and natural gas market. .
Among the blocks that are undergoing studies, one is located in the Santos Basin region and another three located in the Campos Basin, all in the pre-salt Polygon.
Now, the ANP's next step will be to finalize the economic and geological feasibility studies for submission to the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME). In this way, the ministry must then propose to the National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) the final definition of the pre-salt oil blocks that will be in the direct concession regimes in the auction or will enter the Permanent Sharing Offer.
Furthermore, it will be up to the CNPE, after requesting it from the MME, to define the offer system and the parameters to be adopted for each one of them.
Agency included 218 blocks of the Equatorial Margin in the Permanent Sharing Offer regime, seeking new investments in the national oil and gas sector
Over the past week, the ANP had already carried out another initiative to expand investments in the national oil and gas sector, by announcing the inclusion of 218 blocks on the Equatorial Margin in the Permanent Offer system, under the concession regime.
The blocks included in the regime are all located in the regions of the Foz do Amazonas, Pará-Maranhão, Barreirinhas, Ceará and Potiguar basins, in a marine environment of deep and ultra-deep waters.
“The ANP identified opportunities for improvement in what is foreseen in the resolution in relation to the definition of the “Total Value of the Complete System”, of systems of foreign origin without fiscal document of commercial transaction. The objective is to ensure the application of the calculation method of deduction local content in foreign supplies that contain domestic components incorporated, provided for in the Local Content Booklet contained in Annex II of the Resolution”, commented the ANP regarding its decision.
While carrying out this inclusion and studies for the new traditional pre-salt auction, the ANP is preparing the first cycle of the Permanent Sharing Offer, with pre-salt blocks. BP Energy companies; Chevron; CNODC; CNOOC; Petrobras; Petronas; Shell and TotalEnergies have signed up to the process so far.