The Secretary of Energy Planning and Development of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), Paulo César Magalhães Domingues during the Energy Seminar: Development, Challenges and Opportunities, promoted by the Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro( Firjan) and the Rio de Janeiro Naval Technological Cluster (CTN-RJ) that Beginning today 05/30, it presented Brazil's performance in the international market, as the seventh largest oil producer and the same position as the largest exporter. It also showed the growing volume of investments that has been taking place in several areas, especially after auctions.

“When the world deals with energy transition today, Brazil is already far ahead”, he added, referring to the country's strategy to advance in clean and renewable energy.

The secretary also referred to the production of hydrogen, which, as he explained, has great synergy with the production of offshore wind (at sea). “Offshore wind associated with the production of hydrogen, which is extremely electro-intensive, is quite interesting. There is offshore wind power, which produces hydrogen, a part of this energy stays in Brazil and another part is transformed into hydrogen both for internal use and for export”, he revealed.

“We are creating the entire legal, regulatory and legal framework to allow the growth of these sources in Brazil”, he concluded.

Natural Gas

The director general of the ANP, Admiral Rodolfo Saboia, indicated that the natural gas market in Brazil has undergone an even greater transformation than that of oil, but is faced with the need for a larger structure to develop.

“Brazil greatly lacks natural gas infrastructure. We have a few hundred times fewer kilometers of pipelines than the United States and Argentina, for example,” he said, adding that the situation has improved in this regard since the new gas market law was passed last year.

“We are already seeing a different dynamic in the natural gas market. We are moving from a market that left the de facto monopoly of Petrobras, until recently, to another in which there is already the entry of a large number of players with regulatory simplifications, because the regime is no longer one of concessions”, he observed. 

The director of Oil, Gas and Biofuels at Empresa de Pesquisa Energética (EPE), Heloísa Esteves, highlighted the importance of biomass for energy production, which has already surpassed the use of sugarcane to obtain ethanol and has started to use other products. “We have the fourth largest agricultural production in the world. This has a very large synergy with our bioenergy potential”, he said.