Petrobras will participate, between the 1st and June 5th, the World Gas Conference (World Gas Conference - WGC 2015), the most important global event for the area of natural gas. At the 26th edition of the event in Paris, France, the company will present the Gas Utilization Optimization Program (POAG), and work on the prospects of natural gas in Brazil and neighboring countries and technological innovations in the fertilizer industry. Company representatives also preside five panels.
The Optimization Program Petrobras Gas Utilization (POAG 2015), which significantly reduced the flaring of natural gas in the activities of Exploration and Production Company, even with increased production, will be one of the topics presented at the event on 5 at 11:20 am, by Vitor de Souza Lima, coordinator in the area of Exploration and Production. In the lecture, called "POAG 2015 - Reducing gas flaring in Petrobras' ('POAG 2015 - The reduction of gas flaring at Petrobras'), will address the gas utilization rate of Petrobras, which hit historic highs, putting the Brazil among the countries that better exploit the resource in the area of E & P. This index reached in February this year monthly record in the company, with the use of 96.5% of the gas produced in Brazil.
The balance between supply and demand for gas in the Southern Cone region will be addressed by Gisele Mello Senra Rodrigues, a consultant in the area of Gas and Energy, and Gisela Andrade de Oliveira, Petrobras' International Area manager. The thematic session called "Strategy and Regulation" ('Strategy and Regulation') will be held on 3 to 17h. Among the topics that will be presented is the increase in gas supply security in the Southern Cone, with planned investments for the Brazilian pre-salt and unconventional gas in Argentina as well as new developments in Bolivia.
Tax system - Member of the International Gas Union (IGU), the organization responsible for the event, Marcos de Freitas Sugaya, Exploration Area consultant and Production Petrobras, will chair the session "tax schemes for conventional gas and unconventional" (' tax regimes for the production of conventional and unconventional gas') on day 3, at 17h. In this session, Sugaya also present the results achieved by the study group who led the last three years. The team, comprised of professionals from various countries, pointed out the best practices to encourage the production of natural gas after analyzing the most important tax regimes existing in the world. He will also chair another panel, called "Competitiveness in the gas market and investments in exploration and production sector" ('Gas on gas competition and upstream investment') on the same day, at 8:30 am, which will deal on product pricing mechanisms.
The combination of technological innovations and best practices in fertilizer production area will be highlighted by the coordinator Cristiane Lodi, the Gas and Energy of Petrobras. The session, called "Additional Uses for Gas" (Additional Uses Gas) will be on the 3rd, from 13:50 to 14:35. The accumulated operational experience in the production of fertilizers resulted in project units whose energy consumption is among the lowest in the world.
Panels with participation of Petrobras - Five conference panels will be chaired by representatives of Petrobras. In addition to those mediated by Sugaya, general manager of Control and Performance Evaluation of Exploration and Production, Krambeck Denis Dinelli, will be ahead of three other: the first on reduction of natural gas flares, next to the Reduction Program Manager of the World Bank Flares (GGFR), Bjorn Hamso, on 2/6, at 15:15; the second, on unconventional gas, will be Dinelli Energy beside the secretary of the first administration of President Barack Obama in the US, Jason Bordoff, on the 3rd of June at 15h. Dinelli will command, also a panel called "Natural gas everywhere: an assessment of global wealth and reserves" ('Natural gas available everywhere: an assessment of global resources and reserves'), to be held on the 4th, at 17.15 .
International Gas Union (IGU)
Petrobras was president of E & P International Gas Union Committee (IGU) in the last three years, and was responsible for the extensive report of coordination on exploration and production of natural gas in the world, including the application of new technologies and the quantification and reserves resources both in regard to the conventional gas as the unconventional. Founded in 1931, the IGU is a worldwide non-profit organization whose mission is to defend the natural gas as part of a sustainable global energy system. The association has over 140 members, including associations and companies in the gas sector, representing more than 95% of the global market.