Table of contents Brazilian law and general principles Marcelo Viveiros de Moura Pinheiro Neto Advogados National Petroleum Agency and Ministry of Energy: Functions and Responsibilities José Carlos Ribeiro Filho Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa e Guerreiro Advogados Brazilian players: Petropras, NOC, IOCs and independents Luiz Antonio Maia Espínola de Lemos Luis Antonio Menezes da Silva Marcelo Romanelli de Oliveira Felipe Rodrigues Caldas Feres Campos Mello Advogados Licence regime Daniela Ribeiro Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa e Guerreiro Advogados The new petroleum regime Luis Fernando Pacheco Veirano Advogados Joint ventures Jose Virgilio Lopes Enei Leonardo Miranda da Silva Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados Infrastructure and third party access Luiz Antonio Maia Espínola de Lemos Luis Antonio Menezes da Silva Marcelo Romanelli de Oliveira Felipe Rodrigues Caldas Feres Campos Mello Advogados Environmental regulation Luiz Fernando Pacheco Veirano Advogados Upstream and corporate tax regime Camila Galvão Anderi Silva Fernando Tonanni Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados Decommissioning Eduardo Guedes Pereira Petra energia Essential elements of upstream in Brazil, part I Luiz-Claudio Campos Ernst & Young Essential elements of upstream in Brazil, part II Andrew Duncan Merril Lynch Law and jurisdiction Marcelo Viveiros de Moura Pinheiro Neto Advogados