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THE Petrobras (PETR4) Wait for an IBAMA response until Thursday (15) on the license to operate a drill ship on the equatorial margin. According to CEO Magda Chambriard, the company is meeting all the requirements and respecting the country’s institutionality. She said that if the license is not issued, Petrobras already has everything scheduled to remove the lease.
Magda explained that the last requirement of Ibama, which was the creation of a new discharge center in the municipality of Oiapoque, was served in late March. The company has already performed the pre-operational exercise of this base, said during a press conference on Tuesday (13).
In addition, the executive added, the company is delivering the largest individual emergency plan ever developed for deep and ultra -deep water operations in the world. “It is very difficult to imagine that this license It will not be granted in such a lack of development, ”he said.
Director Clarice Coppetti said that last week, simulation tests of all emergency response exercises were performed, and the times obtained are within the standards required by the Ibama manuals. He pointed out that Petrobras has requested the agency a date and planning for pre-operational evaluation.
“The management of this process is something that is at the board level, given its importance for the composition of the country’s energy matrix,” he said. According to her, the company has been filed weekly in Ibama all the steps it is following, and believes in the response of the environmental agency.
The equatorial margin is considered an important exploratory frontier, with an estimated potential of 9 billion barrels of oil. However, part of the experts warns of the risk of environmental imbalance, especially in areas near the Amazon.
Profit of R $ 35.2 billion
The day before, Petrobras informed net profit R $ 35.2 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 48.6% compared to the same period of the previous year, and the payment of R $ 11.7 billion in dividends.
During the teleconference on the morning of Tuesday, Chambriard stated, at various times of the state conference teleconference, that the moment is “austerity” and cost control, to face the oil fall.
“When the price goes up, we have more comfort to drop our ideas. When the price goes down, it’s time to tighten the belts,” he said.
Source: Moneytimes
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