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06/03/2012
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Rio de Janeiro - This year, IBAMA must complete the licensing of 12 new projects of production and marketing of oil offshore in the Campos, Santos and Sergipe / Alagoas. Of this total, we highlight the development of Stage 1 of the pre-salt Santos Basin, the expansion of the pipeline network for transporting the offshore production of natural gas and the revitalization of the fields in shallow waters in Sergipe. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that will subsidize these environmental licensing are already under review and is expected to hold several public hearings so that people can understand and contribute with suggestions about the projects.
This overview was presented by Director of Environmental Licensing, Gisela Forattini, and staff of the General Oil and Gas (CGPEG) twice IBAMA in Rio de Janeiro this week: the monthly meeting of the Situation Room of Oil and Gas at the hearing held by the Superintendent of IBAMA in Rio de Janeiro with the participation of leaders of the institute, Petrobras, National Oil Agency and the ministries of Mines and Energy and Planning, Budget and Management.
In the auditorium of oversight, the leaders exchanged information on the prospect of exploration and production of oil and gas between 2012 and 2015 and the situation of the federal environmental permits. The Director of Exploration and Production Petrobras, Jose Miranda Formigli Filho, recently inaugurated, has designed a set of "hard work" in the coming years: "Our exploration activity and production growth outlook has spectacular and awesome. This only tends to grow, "said the director who was accompanied by 16 other managers and technicians from Petrobras.
Also present at this hearing, the director of the Natural Gas Department of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Symone Christine de Santana Araujo, who also coordinates the Situation Room of Oil and Gas, was proud of the skill of dialogue in monitoring the licensing of PAC projects.
The director Gisela Forattini recognized the need to strengthen the IBAMA to meet the growing demand from all sectors and not just the oil and gas, but showed the progress of the environmental licensing. He said that licensing increased by 32% in 2011 compared to the previous period and the average this year remains at 2.3 licenses per day. He also said that 60% of environmental analysts have master's or doctoral experience in the area and noted the entry of 90 new analysts in the tables of licensing, to be further enhanced with implementation of new tenders.
He also highlighted some important milestones the licensing of oil and gas ventures in 2011. Among them, the issuance of operating license for the geographic area of the Santos Basin, completing the process of regularization of the environmental licensing of marine drilling by Petrobras, the strengthening of staff of the General Oil and Gas in Sergipe (UALAE), responsible the licensing of projects in the North-Northeast and publication of the diagnosis of waste generation and disposal of oil and gas in Brazil (http://www.ibama.gov.br/licenciamento/modulos/arquivo.php?cod_arqweb=NTResid) .
Other milestones were the increase of the structure of emergency response in the Campos Basin, and to enhance monitoring of simulated exercises. We analyzed 19 years in 2011, almost double the previous year.
Image caption: Director of Exploration and Production Petrobras, Jose Miranda Formigli Filho, Director of Environmental Licensing, Gisela Forattini and general coordinator of Oil and Gas IBAMA, Cristiano Vilardo (from left to right).
Sandra Sato
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