Petrobras evaluates areas of the Pelotas Basin in ANP’s permanent offer

(epbr) The Pelotas Basin is one of the areas that Petrobras is evaluating in the permanent offer from the National Petroleum Agency (ANP).

The basin is located in the south of the country, on the border with Uruguay, where discoveries were made in deep waters in the last decade. Petrobras does not yet have any blocks in the region.

There is potential in the region for prospects in shallow waters, as well as in deep waters, according to Petrobras’ director of exploration and production, Joelson Mendes.

On Monday, the president of Petrobras, Jean Paul Prates, mentioned the Pelotas Basin, as well as offshore Argentina, when citing possibilities of new exploration frontiers for the state-owned company.

“In the South, there is the Pelotas Basin, in front of Rio Grande do Sul, which was, in the times when Campos and Santos were considered with great potential — and still are —, something for one day, when you need it”, he stated in participation in the Roda Viva program.

At the moment, Petrobras has focused on opening new frontiers in the Equatorial Margin, in the North and Northeast of the country. According to the director, possible exploration in Pelotas does not compete with activities on the Equatorial Margin.

Permanent offer from ANP
Scheduled for December 13th, the permanent offer is the ANP’s mechanism that allows bidding rounds for areas to take place upon demand from companies, which can express interest in the available areas at any time so that a call for tender process can begin. an auction.

To date, there have been three cycles of the permanent offer under the concession regime, with 121 contracts signed, in addition to one cycle under the sharing regime, with four contracts in force.

The notice for the 4th Cycle of the Permanent Concession Offer (OPC) includes the area with natural gas accumulation in Japiim, in the Amazon Basin, and 955 exploratory blocks located in the Amazonas, Camamu-Almada, Campos, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Foz Amazonas, Jacuípe, Paraná, Parecis, Parnaíba, Pelotas, Pernambuco-Paraíba, Potiguar, Recôncavo, Santos, Sergipe-Alagoas and Tucano

In total, 87 companies are registered in the Permanent Concession Offer, able to present offers on the day of the public session, in December.

The block sectors that will be offered in the 4th Cycle will be announced on October 16th.