The auction is scheduled for October 10th and will offer 36 blocks in marine sedimentary basins; Petrobras and 11 other giants have already signed up.
The National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), said on the 26th, that it received the registration of the first twelve companies for the 16th Bidding Round of oil and gas exploratory blocks, under concession regime, they are the giants Exxon, Shell, Equinor, Total and CNOOC, in addition to Petrobras. Focusing on the pre-salt layer, the state-owned Brazilian oil company starts selling onshore fields in Bahia.
Of those registered so far, eleven are companies of foreign origin; group that also includes BP, Chevron, Ecopetrol, Karoon, QPI and Repsol.
The auction is scheduled for October 10 and will offer 36 blocks in the marine sedimentary basins of Pernambuco-Paraíba, Jacuípe, Camamu-Almada, Campos and Santos, totaling 29,3 km² of area.
The list of registered companies may still grow, according to the ANP, which informed that other registration requests will be analyzed in the next meetings of the Special Tender Commission (CEL), which will meet again on September 16th.
The ANP highlighted that registration for the round is mandatory and individual for each interested party, even for those intending to submit an offer through a consortium.
Second he, all applicants met the requirements set out in the announcement and are eligible to participate in the round.
Registered companies may submit offers only for blocks located in sectors for which they have paid the participation fee and provided a bid guarantee.
Also scheduled for the second half of the year are the auction of the transfer of rights surplus (October 28) and the 6th pre-salt sharing round (November 7).
PEC 98, on the onerous assignment, should be voted on in the Senate plenary next Wednesday, the 28th. Rapporteur Cid Gomes (PDT/CE) will forward changes to the text, increasing the apportionment of states and municipalities in the surplus auction bonus. If the change is approved, the text goes back to the Chamber.
Governors of the South and Southeast also want to extend the practice of apportioning the bonus to other auctions. The signatories of the Letter of Victory, signed after the 4th meeting of the South and Southeast Integration Consortium (Cosud) on Saturday (24), ask that 50% of sharing auction bonuses be transferred to local governments.
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