The federal government and the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) expect the first cycle of Permanent Sharing Offer to take place at the end of this year, with 11 oil and gas exploration and production areas belonging to the pre- -salt. 
The agency’s director-general, Rodolfo Saboia, said today (13), in Rio de Janeiro, that the ANP is working “hard” for the auction to be held this year, and said that expectations for the results of this cycle of permanent offer are very good.
“As they are highly valued assets and the pre-salt region is considered first-rate worldwide, we hope that the permanent offer for the sharing regime will be very successful”, he said at a press conference, after the end of the session. public notice of the 3rd Cycle of Permanent Offer.
investments
The Minister of Mines and Energy, Bento Albuquerque, said that holding the auction this year is an expectation of the National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) and the government.
“We continue to work within the scope of the National Energy Policy Council to accelerate this investment process in the sector, and this evidently involves the permanent offer, through the feasibility of areas hitherto restricted to specific auctions”, he explained.
Bento Albuquerque considered that the auction held today was exceptional. With the winning bids, more than R$ 422 million in signature bonuses will be collected with the contracting of 59 blocks awarded by 13 companies or consortia. More than R$ 400 million in investments are forecast.
finished blocks
The 59 blocks won in the auction are part of a universe of 379 offered by the ANP in seven basins, based on the expression of interest by the market itself. Only the Pelotas basin received no bids, and most of the signature bonus collected was obtained in the eight blocks of the Santos Basin, totaling R$ 415 million.
“More important than the success of this auction, in my opinion, from the government’s point of view, is the consolidation of permanent offer auctions”, assured the minister, who celebrated the participation of small and medium-sized Brazilian companies.
“What we are looking for in Brazil is an open and competitive market, and what the auctions have shown is that with each passing year we have more agents and more companies participating and this is very good, because, in the end, there will be an increase not production in our country, but we will also have better prices for consumers of these inputs”, he explained.
For the director-general of the ANP, the participation of these companies is a sign of market vitality, even at a time of instability caused by issues such as the energy transition, the covid-19 pandemic and the war in Eastern Europe.
“It is an extraordinary result, especially in an adverse scenario – in the oil and gas industry in the world as a whole – in which the only certainty is instability”, he declared.
