{"id":312495,"date":"2025-11-11T14:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/petrobras-and-amazonica-energy-sign-historic-amazon-lng-agreement\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:18:32","slug":"petrobras-and-amazonica-energy-sign-historic-amazon-lng-agreement","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/petrobras-and-amazonica-energy-sign-historic-amazon-lng-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrobras and Amaz\u00f4nica Energy sign historic Amazon LNG agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Petrobras and Amaz\u00f4nica Energy<\/strong> signed the first contract for the small-scale commercialization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Urucu Cluster, located in the Solim\u00f5es Sedimentary Basin. The agreement establishes an <strong>initial supply of 100,000 cubic meters per day<\/strong> as of February 2028, with a ten-year duration and the possibility of extension. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the expected benefits of the agreement?<\/h2>\n\n<p>The contract includes investments by Amaz\u00f4nica Energy in infrastructure for liquefaction, transportation and regasification of natural gas. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/how-is-gas-made-formation-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">natural gas<\/a><\/strong>as well as the <strong>expansion of the delivery point<\/strong>, to facilitate access to LNG in river and land areas that are difficult to access in the Amazon.<\/p>\n\n<p>Among the expected objectives of the agreement is to bring cleaner and more efficient energy to electricity generating industries and vehicles, using <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/liquefied-natural-gas-in-latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Compressed Natural Gas<\/a><\/strong>which can <strong>attract investment and create jobs<\/strong>. It will also take advantage of <strong>energy resources already produced in the region<\/strong> that previously could not be distributed efficiently. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The importance of Urucu<\/h2>\n\n<p>Since 1988, Petrobras has been operating in the Urucu field, <strong>the third largest natural gas producer in Brazil<\/strong>, with an average production <strong>of 5.1 million cubic meters per day<\/strong>. This volume supplies 65% of the electricity generation of Manaus and other cities in the state of Amazonas. <\/p>\n\n<p>Petrobras&#8217; operations in the area generate nearly <strong>20,000 jobs<\/strong>, of which some 1,000 are local workers. In addition, the Urucu Pole maintains 98% of its areas preserved, has waste management systems, and operates with energy self-sufficiency from its own natural gas. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An energy bet for Petrobras and Amaz\u00f4nica Energy<\/h2>\n\n<p>This contract between <strong>Petrobras and Amaz\u00f4nica Energy<\/strong> is not only about selling gas, it also seeks to <strong>solve an infrastructure problem<\/strong> in one of Brazil&#8217;s most difficult regions, integrating this remote region into the national energy matrix in a practical and sustainable way.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/agencia.petrobras.com.br\/w\/petrobras-e-amaz%C3%B4nica-energy-firmam-primeiro-contrato-para-comercializa%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-gnl-em-pequena-escala-a-partir-do-polo-urucu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Petrobras<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contract will enable the distribution of liquefied natural gas on a small scale in remote regions of northern Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10019,"featured_media":312449,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13036],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-312495","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-oil-and-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/312495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/312495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=312495"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=312495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}