Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has chosen Senator Jean Paul Prates for the role of chief executive at state-controlled oil company Petrobras, said Upstreamonline.
Multiple media outlets in Brazil reported on Thursday that Lula has selected Prates for the coveted role of Petrobras boss and that he intends to appoint Senator Alexandre Silveira to head the country’s Mines & Energy Ministry.
Prates, a senator from Lula’s Workers’ Party, is a lawyer, economist and entrepreneur, who has also held the position of energy secretary in Rio Grande do Norte state.
He has worked for more than 25 years in the energy sector, with experience and expertise in oil and gas but an equally long track record in biofuels and other sources of renewable energy.
In 1997, he helped draft the petroleum law that opened the country’s oil and gas sector to foreign investors.
Born in Rio de Janeiro state, Prates made Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, his adopted home and, as energy secretary there, was instrumental in fostering a wave of investment in onshore wind.
We remind, Petrobras has started output at the Itapu pre-salt field in the Santos basin via the P-71 floating production, storage and offloading vessel. The P-71 FPSO, which features a processing capacity of 150,000 barrels per day of oil and 6 million cubic metres per day of natural gas, was deployed in water depths of 2010 metres. “We were able to anticipate production of the P-71 platform, which was originally scheduled for 2023,” said Petrobras production development director Joao Henrique Rittershaussen.
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