The National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) approved today (16) the pre-bidding and the contract drafts that establish the bidding rules for 11 blocks located in the pre-salt area, within the Permanent Offer to Share Production (OPP). Both the pre-bidding and the contract drafts will be sent to the Ministry of Mines and Energy for approval.
The ANP recalled that the Ágata, Água Marinha, Esmeralda, Jade, Turmalina and Tupinambá blocks were scheduled to be offered in the 7th and 8th production sharing rounds, in the Santos Basin. The five remaining blocks were not awarded in production sharing bidding rounds carried out by the ANP. They are: Itaimbezinho (4th Sharing Round, Campos Basin), North of Brava (6th Sharing Round, Campos Basin), Boomerangue, Cruzeiro do Sul and Southwest of Sagittarius (6th Sharing Round, Santos Basin).
Permanent offer
According to the ANP, permanent offer is a bidding format for granting exploration and production contracts for exploratory blocks and areas with marginal accumulations, located in any onshore or offshore basins, for exploration or rehabilitation and production of oil and natural gas. In this format, the offer of exploratory blocks and areas with marginal accumulations is continuous.
Until December of last year, the permanent offer was carried out exclusively under a concession contracting regime, without the possibility of including pre-salt areas and also areas considered strategic, in accordance with Law nº 12.351/2010, whose legal regime of contracting is the sharing of production.
The Resolution of the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) No. 27/2021, of December 24, 2021, suspended this limitation by establishing that fields or blocks located in the pre-salt polygon or in strategic areas can be tendered in the system of Permanent Offer upon specific determination of the CNPE, with definition of the parameters to be adopted for each field or block.
On January 5, 2022, CNPE Resolution No. 26/2021 authorized the bidding of 11 blocks in the Permanent Offer system, under the production sharing regime, and approved the technical and economic parameters of the auction.
The ANP also informed that the exploratory blocks to be offered in the Permanent Production Sharing Offer (OPP) are not related to the blocks offered in the 3rd Cycle of the Permanent Concession Offer (OPC), which is in progress and has a public session of presentation of offers scheduled for April 13th.
