Oil and gas exploration and production activities in Brazil: The consideration of environmental issues in the bidding rounds promoted by the National Petroleum Agency

Mariano, Jacqueline; Rovere, Emilio La

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2006.10.005

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“…Oil and gas exploration and production have been subject to environmental licensing since 1986 but privatization required new measures (Mariano and La Rovere 2007). Initial ANP auctions of new concessions to private firms took no note of environmental considerations, but simply offered blocks that were likely to contain fuels.…”

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The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil

Hochstetler

2011

St Comp Int Dev

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How do societies make complex choices about concrete energy alternatives? Can citizens play effective roles in balancing risks and benefits? This article proposes that energy choices can be best understood as the result of a balance of power between state-society coalitions that aim to either block or enable the project. Environmental licensing and financing decisions are two decision points where the coalitions face off-and where energy projects go forward or are stopped. The article demonstrates that environmental licensing has become an unexpectedly stringent process in Brazil, with both formal opportunities and historic practices increasing the influence of blocking coalitions. Yet case studies of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam and massive new petroleum reserves in the "pre-salt" region show that blocking coalitions emerge inconsistently in the same institutional context, illustrating the hazards of relying on public mobilization for addressing certain kinds of risk situations. An "anticipatory state" may also pre-empt mobilization by proactively responding to the concerns blocking coalitions are likely to raise.Keywords Brazil . Energy politics . Environmental licensing . Citizen participation While millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico in the summer of 2010, dilemmas that often go unnoticed became headlines. How are choices made about the evident risks of energy production? How are costs balanced against the benefits of the energy produced? Who acquires risks, and who is likely to benefit? Perhaps most important, who should participate in this balancing exercise, and how? What roles can citizens effectively play?This article approaches those questions with a case study of Brazil. As the Brazilian state anticipates a period of economic growth, the Ministry of Mines and Energy has completed its decadal plan for expanding Brazil's energy sources accordingly (Ministério de Minas e Energia 2010). The current energy matrix is St Comp Int Dev (2011) 46:349-371

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Section: The Pre-salt: Distributing the Benefits And Costs Of A New Pmentioning

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The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil

Hochstetler

2011

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“…There was little policy integration, and the sectorial approach was the most used. In terms of environmental concerns, the environmental agency called the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) was the main instructional body (Mariano & La Rovere, 2007).…”

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“…The new regulatory agency (ANP) began attempting to address environmental matters after deciding the concession areas (Mariano & La Rovere, 2007). During the first years of this period, there were no changes in the environmental legislation, although the new regulatory agency (ANP) also had responsibility for environmental protection (Mariano & La Rovere, 2007). The previous environmental agency (IBAMA) had been founded to use the precautionary principle excessively (Mariano & La Rovere, 2007).…”

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Shifts in modes of governance and sustainable development in the Brazilian oil sector

Aguiar

Freire

2017

European Management Journal

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This article discusses shifts in modes of governance in the Brazilian oil sector over a 60-year period. On the basis of Driessen et al.'s (2012) framework, we discuss the impact of these shifts on sustainable development. Our results suggest that changes in modes of governance were driven by regulation and mostly associated with shifts in both actors and institutional features but that the underlying rationale of prioritising economic outcomes remained unaffected. The results also confirm that a central governance structure remained in place over time and co-existed in different modes of governance. Petrobras was the backbone of this structure and instrumental in empowering and disempowering non-state actors. This article stresses that a mode of governance furthering sustainable development should promote interactions of large numbers of actors and may require active participation of Petrobras to encourage rationales that support improvements in social and environmental domains.

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“…These concessions were designated as "Round 0" areas (Mariano and La Rovere 2007); • In 1999 IBAMA created the Office of Permitting of Petroleum and Nuclear (ELPN), located in Rio de Janeiro city, that was responsible to proceed the environmental permitting for offshore oil and gas activities; Basin, considering all aspects for optimizing the environmental study that would consider the issuing of a LO for drilling in an entire geographic area, instead of blocks; • In August 2006, following the same philosophy of geographic area permitting applied to drilling activities, IBAMA issues the Terms of Reference for the development of production of Parque das Baleias, located in the northern part of Campos Basin; • In the beginning of 2007, Petrobras and IBAMA signed a Commitment Term to implement the Regional Environmental Education Program in the Campos Basin, covering all permitting processes in the basin; • In April 2007, the Santos Basin drilling CAT was signed allowing drilling in areas from "Round 0" to "7 th Round"; The permitting just started in 1993 when IBAMA edited an internal regulation that provided the guidance for the first drilling permission; • In 1994, with the release of the CONAMA Resolution 23/94 establishing guidelines for the permitting of exploration and production of oil and gas, IBAMA emits the first environmental permitting for the development Caravela field, located in Santos Basin; • The Preliminary Drilling Permit (LPper No.…”

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Environmental Permitting Offshore Brazil - A New Approach For Oil & Gas Activities

Soares

Scofano

2010

SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production

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Since 2003 a new approach to conduct the environmental permitting process for oil & gas activities offshore Brazil has been negotiated with the Brazilian environmental federal authority (IBAMA). The new model is based on the concept of geographical areas, where an operator can develop a set of drilling or production projects considering just one administrative process, instead of carrying out individual ones which usually led to more prolonged permits. This model has been successfully applied by Petrobras in the drilling permits (LO) for the Geographical Areas of Campos and Espírito Santo, which respond for almost 80% of the total drilling activity carried out by the company in Brazilian waters, nowadays. The model was also applied to license a production area in the northern part of Campos Basin called Parque das Baleias. In this area, a Preliminary Permit (LP) was granted and for each new project (platform, pipeline) there are just a few steps to follow to get the Installation (LI) and Operation Permit (LO). Before using this innovative model, for each individual permitting process there were a need to prepare a different Environmental Impact Assessment Study (EIA) that, considering the characteristics of the locations, usually contained the same environmental diagnosis and the same drilling rigs and fluids descriptions. Not only repeated work was been done by operators, but also the Environmental Authority had the same effort in analyze all the documents. As a consequence, the use of the new model reduced the number of processes and allowed the establishment of unified mitigating and compensating environmental projects (environmental education, environmental monitoring and social communication programs). Finally, the unification of environmental projects, contracts and reports allows a better HSE planning and management of the activities by the operators. It is important to stand out that such environmental projects are more comprehensive and complex. On the other hand, allows an integrated vision aggregating value to the actions derived form the environmental permitting processes.

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Oil and gas exploration and production activities in Brazil: The consideration of environmental issues in the bidding rounds promoted by the National Petroleum Agency

Cited by 16 publications

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The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil

The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil

Shifts in modes of governance and sustainable development in the Brazilian oil sector

Environmental Permitting Offshore Brazil - A New Approach For Oil & Gas Activities

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