Risco e oportunidades na exploração de petróleo no Brasil e Atlântico Sul

Abstract

This research project seeks to bring understanding for practical use, focused on the analysis of investment choices in exploration and production activities of oil basins. Quantitative research was carried out, utilizing statistical methods such as percent, mean, mode, median, standard deviation, correlation coefficient, regression analysis and probability distribution. The following technical procedures were employed: bibliographical search; mining for information from events; and case studies, through modeling of selected data using a full cycle computational simulation solution available in the marketplace. The proactive search for opportunities results in strategic decisions directed at keeping the original objectives of the organization in focus. How should one prepare to face the business of exploration and discovery of hydrocarbons? First, by recognizing that risk and opportunities should not be fought, instead, one should take advantage of them. In comparing Angola, Venezuela and Brazil, despite Brazil s less favorable geological chances, its underlying juridical stability and a fiscal system with a low progressivity have attracted, and continue to attract, the investments required by the country, since these items represent a comparative advantage.