SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL (By Pedro Silva, Energy Analytics Institute, 20.Oct.2025, Words: 217) — Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras received the environmental license from Ibama to drill an exploratory well in block […]
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Petrobras Starts Equatorial Margin Drilling
(Petrobras, 23.Dec.2023) — Petrobras has started drilling the Pitu Oeste (RN) well today, which marks the resumption of the company’s search for oil and gas in the Equatorial Margin, a […]
Petrobras Updates on Offshore Wind Protocol at IBAMA
(Petrobras, 15.Sep.2023) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed to the market on 13 September 2023, informs that the request to start the environmental licensing process for ten areas […]
Petrobras Gets Help From Brazil’s Attorney General to Explore the Amazon
(Bloomberg, 23.Aug.2023) — Brazil’s government may have lifted one of the key hurdles for Petrobras to drill at a promising offshore oil region, a move that could escalate a standoff […]
Petrobras on Answer to Letter from the Ministry of Mines and Energy
(Petrobras, 19.May.2023) — Petrobras answered, on today’s date, to the requests contained in Official Letter nr. 386/2023/GM-MME, from the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), in the terms below: Regarding […]
Petrobras on Letter from Ministry of Mines and Energy
(Petrobras, 19.May.2023) — Petrobras received Official Letter No. 386/2023/GM-MME, through which the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) requests that Petrobras, within its rules of governance and in compliance with […]
Q&A: Brazil to Offer Incentives for Shale Exploration
(Argus, 11.Jan.2022) — Brazil wants to start exploration and production of non-conventional gas resources, such as shale and tight gas, rekindling the public debate that prevented the country from such […]
Brazil Faces Worst Dry Spell In 91 Years
(Reuters, 28.May.2021) — Brazil’s government agencies warned of droughts this week as the country faces its worst dry spell in 91 years, increasing fears of energy rationing, hitting hydroelectric power […]
Brazil Removes 32 Sensitive, Offshore Blocks From Round
(S&P Global Platts, 11.Dec.2020) — Brazil’s National Energy Policy Council, or CNPE, dealt a sharp blow to the country’s offshore exploration and production program by removing 32 high potential but […]
Petrobras Decommissions P-12 Platform
(Petrobras, 7.Jul.2020) — Petrobras informs that, after approval by the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) […]
COSAN Seeks Permits For Alternative Route 4
(S&P Global Platts, 6.Jan.2020) — Brazil sugar and ethanol group Cosan applied for environmental permits to build a second tranche of the Route 4 offshore natural gas export pipeline in […]
Brazil Collects 900 Tonnes Of Spilled Oil
(Kallanish, 23.Oct.2019) — Brazil has collected some 900 tonnes of oil residue from its northeastern beaches since early September, the government said in a joint note Monday. According to the […]
Brazil Cleans Beaches Affected By Oil Spill
(BBC, 20.Oct.2019) — Thousands of people have taken part in a huge clean-up operation to remove oil and tar from beaches along Brazil’s north-eastern coast. Volunteers, as well as government […]
Brazil Reports Oil Spill Along Northeast Beaches
(Reuters, Marta Nogueira and Roberto Samora, 26.Sep.2019) — Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama said on Thursday that an analysis of a vast oil spill along the country’s northeastern beaches showed the […]
Brazil To Auction Oil Camps Despite Environmental Warnings
(AP, Peter Prengaman and Mauricio Savarse, 13.Apr.2019) — The administration of President Jair Bolsonaro plans to auction seven offshore oil fields in the northeast despite contrary advice from analysts of […]
Petrobras Sales Stake In Shallow Campos Fields
(Petrobras, 28.Nov.2018) — Petrobras reports that it has signed today with Perenco the contracts for the full sale of Petrobras’ stake in the fields of Pargo, Carapeba and Vermelho, the […]
Introduction to IBAMA
(The Brazil Business, Renata Garcia, 16.Jun.2015) — IBAMA is an institute that was created to ensure the preservation and maintenance of the environment. It acts in the protection of Brazilian […]