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18 de abril de 2024Chinese energy companies will likely participate in bidding for Brazil’s offshore subsalt oil reserves when auctions begin and are already seeking to buy stakes in existing oil projects, a top energy official told Reuters.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is slated to visit Brazil next week to deepen ties with the South American nation as it taps tens of billions of barrels in the offshore subsalt province that has become a new frontier for petroleum exploration.
“They want to know how to get in,” said Haroldo Lima, director of Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, in a telephone interview. “They’re interested in buying from anyone that’s willing to sell. I went there to explain the rules for how they can do that.”
Auctions for the subsalt blocks have been yet been scheduled because Congress is still discussing new rules for companies investing projects there, part of an attempt by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to boost state control over those areas.
Chinese companies are also interested in investing in refineries and biofuels projects, possibly allowing them to import finished motor gasoline that is already blended with ethanol, Lima said.
The interest in principally from Sinopec (600028.SS) (0386.HK), but China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) (0883.HK) and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) have also expressed a desire to invest.
“They could refine our oil, mix (the products) with ethanol and import mixed Brazilian gasoline. They thought this was a very good idea and they’re discussing it,” said Lima.
But he said Chinese companies have been insistent on being majority shareholders in new joint ventures, which would prevent them taking part in projects with state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA)(PBR.N) that are already in development.
He said Brazil’s 11th bidding round for oil blocks, which includes onshore and shallow water projects but not subsalt blocks, will likely not take place until 2011.
Bidding for subsalt blocks was suspended in 2007 when Lula decided to change the country’s oil laws.
Lima traveled to China on invitation from his Chinese counterpart, Zhan Guobao, director general of the country’s energy administration body. He took part in a Brazil-China investment promotion conference also attended by Petrobras Finance Director Almir Barbassa.