SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Petrobras considers among the premises of its 2022-2026 Business Plan an average Brent oil of US$72 a barrel for next year, a strong rise compared to the US$45 forecast in the previous plan for 2022, according to detailing of the investment program.
The price of Brent oil is currently quoted at about $82 a barrel, close to a recent high of about three years.
The barrel of oil is an important condition for the financing of the investment plan, which foresees investments of 68 billion dollars between 2022 and 2026, versus 55 billion dollars previously projected for the five-year period 2021-2025, according to the relevant fact of Wednesday night. fair.
In detailing the plan on Thursday, Petrobras said that it works with a Brent price of 65 dollars a barrel in 2023, dropping to 60 dollars in 2024 and 55 dollars/barrel in 2025 and 2026.
In the previous plan, released last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which strongly pressured the oil market, the state-owned company had projected lower values for Brent, with an average peak of 50 dollars from 2023 onwards.
The company also projects that the dollar, another important component of the business plan, will remain above 5 reais throughout the entire horizon of the investment program.
For next year, the projection is for a dollar of 5.4 reais, which will have a slight retreat to 5.3 reais in 2023, according to Petrobras. In the previous plan, the exchange rate was projected at 4.7 reais in 2022 and 4.5 reais in the following year.
Petrobras’ dollar forecast for next year compares with an exchange rate of 5.5 reais forecast for the end of 2022 in a Focus survey released by the Central Bank.
(By Roberto Machel)
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