ANP receives 408 contributions in consultation on round 5 of pre-salt

<img src = "https://abrilexame.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/size_960_16_9_20151020-25144-1jq5pxb.jpg" clbad = "abril-image optimized lazyload" abril-data-id = "3002531" sizes = "(min-width: 991px) 680px, (max-width: 420px) 420px, (max-width: 360px) 360px," srcset = "https://abrilexame.files.wordpress.com/ 2016/09 / size_960_16_9_20151020-25144-1jq5pxb.jpg? Quality = 70 & strip = info & resize = 680,453 680w, https://abrilexame.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/size_960_16_9_20151020-25144-1jq5pxb.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&resize = 420,280 420w, https://abrilexame.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/size_960_16_9_20151020-25144-1jq5pxb.jpg?quality=70&strip=all&resize=360,240 360w, "alt =" (19459015) published today (13), at a public hearing, informat on the public consultation opened after the publication of the preliminary opinion and the draft minutes of the public consultation. contracts of the 5th Cycle of Production Sharing in the Pre-Salt. The deadline for participation ended last Wednesday (11). A total of 408 contributions were received, of which 28% were related to consortium rules and 28% were procedures for calculating costs and oil surpluses.

The remaining contributions relate to the local content clause, the legal regime, the arbitration provisions, the badignment of the contract and the development plan, among other topics. In the fifth cycle of production sharing in pre-salt, the regions of Saturn, Titan, Pau-Brasil and Southwest Tartaruga Verde will be offered

The public hearing held today is a legal obligation to make the process transparent and allow interested parties to obtain information and comments. The ANP will now badyze all the contributions received during the public consultation and, on August 9, will announce the announcement and the final contract templates. The offer is scheduled for September 28th.

Pre-submission of information documents on the areas to be offered, as well as the rules and procedures for participation and the preliminary schedule. There are some changes from previous rounds. "For this offer, the main novelty is that we had to make available three contract models," said Heloísa Borges Esteves, deputy superintendent of auction for the ANP, during his presentation at the public hearing [19659008]. in the sharing regime, Petrobras may exercise the preference of acting as an operator of the blocks to be contracted. In this case, your participation in the consortium can not be less than 30%. In this 5th cycle, the state government has announced the interest to participate as an operator in the southwestern area of ​​Tartaruga Verde.

For this reason, the ANP prepared three draft contracts. One of them, for the regions of Saturn, Titan and Pau-Brazil, where there will be no mandatory operation of Petrobras. Another was developed for the southwestern area of ​​Tartaruga Verde, given the mandatory operation of the Brazilian state-owned enterprise. The third project takes into account the possibility for Petrobras to withdraw from the Southwest consortium of Tartaruga Verde and also takes into account the differences for the other areas.

"Tartaruga Verde has a peculiarity due to the resolution of the CNPE [Conselho Nacional de Politica Energética] which stipulates that the local content of this zone must respect the rules of local content of the adjacent zone.Thus, the contract for the Southwest Turtle Green brings a local content clause different from the contracts of the other regions ", explains Heloísa

The pre-editorial still makes changes related to the minimum capital for purposes of financial qualification and values, financial guarantees of the minimum exploratory program. The form of presentation of documents has also changed.

The contracts to be signed by the winners of the call for tenders will give them the right to explore the areas for 35 years.The first seven years will be devoted to the exploration phase, which precedes the production phase and aims to discover and evaluate the deposits