Environmental Guidelines
In compliance with the provisions of CNPE Resolution No.17/17, amended by CNPE Resolution nº 3/2020, the inclusion of areas in the bidding rounds promoted by the ANP should consider the conclusions of the Environmental Assessments of Sedimentary Areas (AAAS).
Alternatively, for areas not considered in one of the AAAS, possible environmental restrictions will be supported by a joint statement by the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Ministry of the Environment, or by their delegates, and complemented by opinions issued by the State Environmental Bodies with respect to terrestrial sedimentary basins.
The objective of this work is to exclude areas due to environmental restrictions due to the overlap with locations where oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) activities are not possible or recommended, providing more security and predictability to the environmental licensing process of petroleum enterprises.
Offshore basins
Environmental licensing of maritime activities and in an E & P transition zone is carried out by the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), through CGMAC (General Coordination of Environmental Licensing of Marine and Coastal Enterprises).
Onshore basins
State Environmental Entities (OEMAs) are responsible for the environmental licensing of land activities restricted to the boundaries of a single state.
Some OEMAs developed a specific opinion for the Open Acreage of areas while others validated the analysis performed on previous rounds.
Note: Considering that the joint Manifestations, Reports and any other documents do not have an English version, see the files (in Portuguese) on the corresponding Portuguese page: Diretrizes Ambientais — Português (Brasil) (www.gov.br)