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Petrobras puts refineries, pipelines and distribution up for sale, and leaves post-salt exploration with the aim of raising almost R$ 100 billion
5 jobs will be created with the decommissioning of 21 Petrobras platforms in the Campos Basin, in Rio de Janeiro. It was in the region that Petrobras became the leading specialist in offshore oil exploration. The company currently has 34 platforms operating in the region.
However, with the objective of focusing on the pre-salt layer, which has been surprising due to its productivity and oil quality, Petrobras is starting to sell 250 concessions, a large part of them in the Campos basin.
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The state-owned company aims to raise around 100 billion reais, for which the company also put up for sale eight refineries, pipelines and distribution. According to Petrobras, the money will be used for investments and the reduction of its debt of almost 400 billion reais.
The determination came from the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), which is looking at the example of the North Sea to outline this new industry in Brazil.
Immediately, 180 are being transferred to the private sector. The purpose of the Agency is for other companies to prospect in unexplored areas and reactivate wells that still have oil to be extracted.
This year eight platforms are in the process of being decommissioned — the technical term for decommissioning. Companies are being hired to dismantle and sell the scrap metal.
In the so-called post-salt layer in Brazil, I fear 66 platforms that will enter the decommissioning phase. It is estimated that in the next 10 years, 34 platforms will be deactivated in the Campos basin alone. The information was provided by the ANP.
Because of its unprecedented nature and also because of the environmental risks, it is more complex to dismantle an oil and gas production structure installed on the high seas – with platforms and extensive networks of underwater lines – than to install it.
Two years ago, ANP evaluates a new regulation, with an eye on the cycle of withdrawing these units that begins in 2020. But, given the risks and the need to discuss with companies, with the Brazilian Institute of the Environment (Ibama) and the Navy, only at the end of In October, a new resolution on the subject should be published.
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