BP Brazil head says future oil auctions unlikely to lure foreign players: paper

Foreign oil companies that have not joined Brazil’s last two auctions of offshore “pre-salt” fields are also unlikely to bid next year, BP Plc’s Brazil president told newspaper Valor Economico in an interview published on Wednesday.

Adriano Bastos argued that, even if the pre-salt areas that have not received any bids are auctioned again with better terms, other projects elsewhere in the world will attract such multinational oil firms, reducing their capacity to invest in Brazil, according to the paper.

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