Fundamentos da exploração de petróleo e gás natural e análise geoeconômica da matriz energética brasileira atual e projeções futuras

Abstract

The analysis of global energy matrix, as well as Brazilian, shows that natural gas will soon represent an important source of energy promoting the national balance of payments, since the gas would be used for domestic consumption and export. The increase in national reserves of oil due to the development of technologies that promote knowledge of the brazilian basins as the potential producer of fossil fuels, allowing the discovery of new deposits. The maturing of the domestic market as the consumption of natural gas involves the construction of a robust infrastructure, efficient and enabling the capture, storage and distribution of the product. Brazil has all the necessary requirements to enter the select group of oil exporting countries, the discovery of pre-salt tends to increase the importance of natural gas to the country. At the end of the paper described future scenarios (about the consumption of energy), where we can see that the energy consumption for the coming years will increase faster than the last two decades. Analysis of these scenarios let anticipate the interest of future investments in the development of geological knowledge to promising areas.