President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent to the National Congress on Wednesday, a proposal that allows the government to sell in an auction all oil and gas production in pre-salt fields that operation under the sharing regime.
According to members of the Esplanada, it would be possible to raise $ 15 billion this year with the measure. The relief of revenue, if Congress takes advantage of the proposal, would occur at a time when the government is being pressured to retreat from the increase in tax on financial operations, with which it is expected to raise $ 19 billion this year.
The pre-salt operates under the sharing regime, so that part of the production is up to the federal government (the percentage was defined in the dispute between companies). The government sells this product through state -owned PPSA when it receives oil and gas.
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The project’s proposal is to put for sale all the union’s surplus oil in non -contracted areas of the Tupi, Mero and ATAPU fields, all exploited under sharing regime. It would be a kind of anticipation of oil receivables.
For this, a auction would be made later this year. By the proposal in processing, sent to the Urgent Regime Congress, the National Energy Policy Committee would evaluate the conditions of the announcement and the values involved for the release of the auction.
Chinese groups already explore the Tupi and mere fields along with Petrobras. And a small percentage of them is not hired. The idea is to offer this in auction.
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Initially, the government even argued to include the revenues arising from this project in the report that indicated the freezing of R $ 31.3 billion in spending last week. But held on technical reasons. The appeal can only be counted in the budget after the approval of the text.
