A relação transescalar e multidimensional Petróleo-Porto como produtora de novas territorialidades

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the petroleum sector and its strong relations with the port and maritime system (in operational and commercial terms), with political power (State) and with the financialization of the economy (in the superstructure). The research also sought to bring new elements to the understanding of the singularity of this capitalist interrelationship, lubricated by oil, as a producer of new territorialities and regionalities. The empirical observation detailed the movements of capital in the State of Rio de Janeiro (and other nodes) of the extensive and imbricated network of corporations in the oil sector at a global level. A thesis on the movements of capital amidst strong relations of power that brings innumerable evidences to the importance of the port complexes - and the maritime systems - (until then little perceived) in the organization and impetus of the petroleum industry, as a great dynamiser of historic capitalism. Through a multidimensional analysis, based especially on the economic relations and the geopolitics of energy, taking as a temporal basis the decade between the years 2006 and 2016. Starting from this temporality, the thesis identifies the petroleum sector as one of the main economic development axes of Brazil, with enormous capacity to drag on several other productive chains, linked to both industry and infrastructure, especially the movement of goods. The thesis thus confirms that the capitalist interrelationship produces a singular economic-socio-spatial dynamic, with multidimensional and transversal characteristics, in terms of repercussion on the territory. It considers that this movement of capital, its inter-sectoriality and the particular territorialization, produced a space circuit of production (of the oil and the royalties), involving three regions of the ERJ (Metropolitan, Coastal Low-lands and North) that generates an urbanization with more regional aspects