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Through Proprietary Studies, The High Cost Data Being Disclosed By Various Unions Refers To The Fourth Quarter Of 2021, Confronting The Neoliberals.
It was economist Cloviomar Cararine, a technician from Dieese who works with the Federation of Oil Workers, who gathered the data showing that the chartered platforms had an extraction cost (lifting cost) 62% higher than that of Petrobras’s own units in the pre-salt field at the end of 2021.
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The extraction cost of the pre-salt in this period was USD 3.24 per barrel on Petrobras’s platforms. On the chartered platforms, the cost was US$ 5.26/barrel.
The issue is also that chartering can negatively impact the country concerning the reduction of the purchase of national products and services, in addition to diminishing the possibility of hiring the state’s own workers.
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In the 1970s, oil became a weapon of war and paralyzed the entire world, and now the same thing is happening again with Iran closing off the route for 20% of the planet’s fuel.
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When oil prices rise, the gas station increases prices the next day, but when it drops by 13% at once, no one explains why gasoline remains at the same price for months.
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The largest fuel distributor in Brazil has just been forced to import diesel and gasoline on its own after Petrobras reduced its monthly deliveries.
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After Trump gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the route for 20% of the world’s oil, the barrel skyrocketed to $117, dropped 13% with a truce, and the Central Bank had to inject $2 billion to stabilize the dollar.
According to Cloviomar Cararine, the price of a barrel of oil and the exchange rate affect freight and contracts. “If the price of the barrel rises, freight rates also increase. This is an example of the negative impact of the lack of sovereignty and a risky choice (by chartering) that Petrobras adopted after 2016,” he says. It was in 2016 that the company decided to base its fuel pricing policy in parallel to the dollar.
Higher Spending on Chartered Pre-Salt Platforms Confronts The Opinion of Those Who Advocate for The Privatization of Petrobras and Other Public Companies
The neoliberal thesis is that private initiatives are more efficient than public companies. With the revelation of data about the higher gains of the chartered platforms compared to Petrobras at the end of last year, unions are starting to claim that privatization harms Brazil. The chartered platforms are contracted by Petrobras to operate in wells where the state company could operate itself, according to the unions.
“The sale of Petrobras and its assets, as well as outsourcing, have worsened working conditions and increased costs for the company. What is happening today in the pre-salt is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’. The real corruption of our Petrobras lies in the deals and transfers of billions from the company’s coffers to those who are already rich, making the public pay more and more for gasoline, diesel, and cooking gas,” protests the general coordinator of Sindipetro de Minas Gerais.
Petrobras’s average production in the fourth quarter of 2021 was 2.70 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) of oil, natural gas, and liquid natural gas (LNG), according to the company’s production report.
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