Table of contents
Introduction
Eduardo Pereira
Petra Energia
5
The general principles
of Brazilian law
Marcelo Viveiros de Moura
Décio Pio Borges de Castro
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
9
Governmental authorities:
the CNPE, the Ministry
of Mines and Energy and
the ANP
Andrea Falcão
Lawyer
27
Brazilian players: Petrobras,
NOC, IOCs and independents
Felipe Feres
Luiz Antonio Lemos
Luis Antonio Menezes
Marcelo Romanelli
Campos Mello Advogados
39
Concessions and the
licence regime
57
Daniela Ribeiro Davila
Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa e Guerreiro
Advogados
The new petroleum regime
Felipe Feres
Luiz Antonio Lemos
Luis Antonio Menezes
Marcelo Romanelli
Campos Mello Advogados
73
Joint ventures
José Virgilio Lopes Enei
Leonardo Miranda
Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e
Opice Advogados
83
Transport and thirdparty access
Felipe Feres
Luiz Antonio Lemos
Luis Antonio Menezes
Marcelo Romanelli
Campos Mello Advogados
99
Environment
113
Jorge Tuffi P D Cassab
Elina Cunha
Maria Christina M Gueorguiev
Werner Grau Neto
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Tax
Camila Galvão Anderi Silva
Fernando Tonanni
Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e
Opice Advogados
119
Decommissioning
Eduardo Pereira
Petra Energia
145
Finance, part I
Luiz Claudio Campos
Ernst & Young Terco
169
Finance, part II
Andrew Duncan
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
187
Law and jurisdiction
Ludmilla Corkey
Luis Cláudio Furtado Faria
Marcelo Viveiros de Moura
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
209
About the authors
229