The ANP published yesterday (13/6) the pre-announcement of the Round of Bids of Surplus Onerous Assignment under the regime of Production Sharing, scheduled to take place on November 6. Today also began the deadline for payment of the participation fee and for registration in the round.

The pre-announcement, which contains the minutes of the contracts, will be in public consultation until July 3 and, on July 5, the public hearing will be held in Rio de Janeiro. Among the main changes in relation to the previous notices of the sharing rounds are:

- No operational phase; 

- Coexistence between two exploration and production contracts in the same area, since the blocks on offer contain reservoirs coincident with those under the onerous assignment regime, called coparticipated areas; 

- Conclusion of a partnership agreement, for unified development and production of each of the offered areas, called coparticipated areas; 

- Inclusion of another type of technical data package: the Additional Technical Data Package, which differs from the Technical Data Package usually made available in the bidding rounds (also available in this), as it contains information provided by Petrobras specifically for this bid; 

- Alteration of the procedure for submitting bids, with a requirement that all qualified bidders appear at the public bidding session and submit an envelope to the Special Bidding Committee (CEL).

The Bidding Round of the Onerous Assignment Surplus will offer the development areas of Atapu, Búzios, ltapu and Sepia, in the Santos Basin, with a total area of 1,385 km². The signing of the production-sharing contracts resulting from the round is scheduled to take place until March 2020.

In the rounds in the sharing regime, the signature bonuses are fixed and the winning companies or consortia are those that offer a greater percentage of surplus in oil to the Union, from the minimum defined in edict. In the Bidding Surplus Round of the Onerous Assignment, signature bonuses vary between R$1,766,000,000.00 and R$68,194,000,000.00 and the minimum percentage of surplus in oil between 19.82% and 27.65%.

The pre-announcement, draft contract, schedule of the round and procedures for participation in the public consultation and hearing are available on the website of the Rounds and on the page of the Public Consultation and Audience ANP nº 13/2019.