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  Magda Chambriard (an engineer and former Petrobras employee who headed the National Agency for Oil, Gas and Biofuels during Dilma Rousseff's administration), the new president of Petrobras, argues that Brazil should accelerate oil exploration to replenish reserves. Without this, according to her vision, which is the same as Lula's, Brazil could return to being an importer. She is the eighth president of Petrobras in eight years.   Chambriard, 66, is seen as someone who will strengthen the company's investments, especially in refining, and give more orders to the Brazilian shipping industry. For her, the last word must come from President Lula. She is a strong advocate of the national industry's ship orders, investments in refineries and oil exploration in the Foz do Amazonas basin, in the Equatorial Margin region. The potential exploration areas of the Foz do Amazonas Basin and Pelotas, in Rio Grande do Sul. Petrobras will focus on projects that generate profits, ...

  Petrobras announced three weeks ago that it had found an oil deposit in ultra-deep waters in the Potiguar Basin, on the Brazilian equatorial margin. This is the second discovery made in 2024 in the region, a target of conflict between the government's energy and environmental sectors. It is the first time that the state-owned company has found deposits in the region similar to those of the giant discoveries in Guyana and Suriname, which should increase the pressure for the release of environmental licenses in the area. The well responsible for the second discovery, called Anhangá, was drilled near the border between Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará, 190 kilometers from Fortaleza. It is located 24 kilometers from the first discovery, called Pitu Oeste. The discovery is unprecedented in the region as it was made in a type of reservoir called turbidite. This is what is expected on the equatorial margin. The result strengthens the evidence that gigantic reserves, like those of nei...