affected by pandemic of Covid-19, the sector of Petroleum and gas shows signs of recovery, with the prospect of generating between 30,000 and 50,000 jobs in 2022. The projection is from the Brazilian Institute of Oil and Gas (IBP), an entity that brings together the main companies in the sector. The optimistic scenario is driven by the sale of Petrobras assets and the stabilization of the price of a barrel of oil.
“Oil production in Brazil, if you take it from two decades now, has grown 140%. That’s almost 3 million barrels a day. The forecast that we make, as an institute, is that this production will reach 5.4 million barrels per day in 2030. For this, a lot of investment has to be made. From 2020 to 2024, we estimate US$ 50 billion. With investments, jobs also come”, stated the president of the IBP, Eberaldo Almeida.
The increase in production and contracts is boosted by the auction of surpluses from the pre-salt, held last Friday (17), with balance of BRL 11 billion to the public coffers. The expectation, according to the IBP, is that the oil and gas exploration and production sector will jump from around 330,000 jobs to 610,000 by 2025.
Almeida points out that, among the factors that act for this scenario, are the movement of Petrobras portfolio management, freeing up projects for smaller companies, such as on land or shallow water, and also the reduction of royalties in mature fields to attract investments. According to him, this is already causing important changes in states like Rio Grande do Norte and Bahia.
In addition to the private companies, in which some had to build teams from scratch, Petrobras opened a public tender, after a voluntary dismissal program. Last Friday (17), a public notice was launched for more than 750 immediate vacancies and 3,780 for reservation registration. The basic salary is R$6,937.43, with a minimum remuneration of R$11.7 thousand.
A survey carried out by LCA Consultores, based on data from the Ministry of Labor and Welfare, shows that only the extraction sector – the initial part of the oil and gas chain – had 13 consecutive months of negative balance, between March 2020 and 2021, with more layoffs than hiring.
As of April, the sector began to show a reaction and registered, between July and October this year, four consecutive months of positive balance. However, around 1.8 thousand vacancies lost have not yet been recreated.
Economist Bruno Imaizumi, from LCA Consultores, points out that the recovery of formal jobs are driven by the pre-salt, with private operators who acquired projects, the start of operation of the FPSO Carioca platform by Petrobras, in the Santos basin, from August, and also by the increase in the extraction of natural gas to power thermoelectric plants, amidst the water crisis.
“For next year, growth is indeed expected because there are two more Petrobras units planned, Guanabara and Almirante Barroso, which will have a fundamental performance, consequently, for the creation of vacancies for the sector”, pointed out Imaizumi.
Despite the optimism, the president of the Petroleum and Gas Institute, Eberaldo Almeida, emphasizes that stability is essential for the projections to materialize, since the sector’s business involves long-term investments. “It needs to be a business environment that attracts”, he stated.
Reference: CNN Brasil
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