Environmental Analysis – Maritime Basins

Environmental Licensing Directorate – DILICOil and Gas Office – CGPEG

Environmental Analysis – Maritime Basins

GTPEG Analysis

Technical-Environmental SeminarMarch 18th, 2013

Cristiano Vilardo

The GTPEG

•MMA Directive #119/08 and MMA Directive #218/12

“to provide technical support for dialogue with Oil and Gas Exploration and

Inter-institutional Working Group on Oil and GasExploration and Production Activities - GTPEG

•“to provide technical support for dialogue with Oil and Gas Exploration and

Production sector, specially regarding early environmental analysis in the

planning process of bidding areas and the strategic recommendations for

environmental licensing process in the national territory and Brazilian

offshore waters”

The 11th Round

- Original environmental analysis

- September 2009 – Technical advice GTPEG #01/2009

- Complementary environmental analysis

- February 2013 - Technical advice GTPEG #01/2013

Maritime Sedimentary Basins

• Espírito Santo

• Pernambuco-Paraíba

• Potiguar

• Ceará

• Barreirinhas

• Pará-Maranhão

• Foz do Amazonas

Espírito SantoSector SES-AP2

- Humpback whale migratory route

- Vicinity of Vitória-Trindade RidgeSeamount

- Influence of Vitória’s Eddy

- Importance of robust oil dispersionmodellingmodelling

- Primary data may be required

Schmid et al 1995

Pernambuco-ParaíbaSectors SPEPB-AP2 and SPEPB-AP3

- Deep waters, but close to shore (30 km minimum)

- Intense fishing activities in shelfbreak, with recent conflict history

- Sensitive coastal environments(estuaries, reefs and mangrooves)

- Sea turtles nesting and feeding area- Sea turtles nesting and feeding area

- Manatees are found near-shore

- High-importance tourism coastline

- Importance of robust oil dispersionmodelling

- Primary data may be required

PotiguarSector SPOT-AP1

- Blocks 477, 567, 569 and766 are partially locatedabove Seamounts

- Seamount drilling isrestricted in watersshallower than 500 meters

- Manatees are found near-- Manatees are found near-shore

- High-importance tourismcoastline

- There are several ProtectedAreas along the coast

CearáSector SCE-AP3

- Manatees are found near-shore

- High-importance tourismcoastline

- There are several ProtectedAreas along the coastAreas along the coast

BarreirinhasSectors SBAR-AP1, SBAR-AP2 and SBAR-AR2

- There are severalProtected Areas along thecoast

- Sensitive coastalenvironments (estuaries, bays, mangrooves)

- Intense fishing on the- Intense fishing on theshelf and slope

- Importance of robust oildispersion modelling

- Primary data may berequired

- Logistical challenges for emergency planning

Pará-MaranhãoSectors SPAMA-AP1 and SPAMA-AP2

- There are several ProtectedAreas along the coast

- Sensitive coastal environments(estuaries, bays, mangrooves)

- Intense fishing on the shelf andslope

- Importance of robust oildispersion modelling

- Primary data may be required

- Logistical challenges for emergency planning

Foz do AmazonasSetores SFZA-AP1, SFZA-AP2, SFZA-AR1 e SFZA-AR2

- High biological diversity, poorly known

- There are several ProtectedAreas along the coast

- Sensitive coastalenvironments (estuaries, bays, mangrooves)bays, mangrooves)

- Intense hidrodynamics

- Importance of robust oildispersion modelling

- Primary data may berequired

- Logistical challenges for emergency planning

- Transboundary risks

Perspectives

• AAAS – Sedimentary Area Environmental Assessment

• Interministerial Directive MME/MMA #198/2012

• Regional Environmental Assessment

• Early definition of areas “opened” to oil exploration, reducinguncertainties and increasing legal security of bidding and licensinguncertainties and increasing legal security of bidding and licensingprocesses;

• Early establishment of guidelines and recommendations for environmental licensing process;

• Provide a regional overview on the environment, allowing assessment of individual projects to be more focused on relevant site-specific information

www.ibama.gov.br/licenciamento

Environmental Licensing Directorate – DILICOil and Gas Office – CGPEG

www.ibama.gov.br/licenciamento

cgpeg.chefia.rj@ibama.gov.br

Phone: 21 3077 4267

Obrigado!