The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum (ANP) has published the results of the fourth oil and gas production sharing round (4ª Rodada do Pré-sal), which offers the offshore areas of Itaimbezinho, Três Marias, Dois Irmãos and Uirapuru, in the pre-salt polygon of the Campos and Santos basins offshore Brazil.
ExxonMobil increased its deepwater offshore portfolio by 89,900 net acres (364 km²) and now has interest in 25 blocks. Equinor won interests in the Uirapuru and Dois Irmãos PSCs. Uirapuru will be operated by Petrobras (30%) and Equinor (28%), ExxonMobil (28%) and Petrogal Brasil (14%) will also take part in the project. Equinor (25%), Petrobras (45%, operator) and BP (30%) will own the Dois Irmãos block.
The last oil and gas bidding round was the 15th oil and gas licensing round held on 29 March 2018, which auctioned 70 blocks in the sedimentary basins of Ceará, Potiguar, Sergipe-Alagoas, Campos and Santos and in the basins of Parnaíba and Paraná. 22 of them were attributed to companies such as ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Wintershall, Chevron, Statoil (former name of Equinor) and Qatar Petroleum. Two new bidding rounds are planned for 2019: the 5th Production-sharing Round including areas in the Pre-salt Polygon (under the PSC regime) and the 16th Bidding Round of Blocks (under the concession regime).
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