Minister Edison Lobao and Petrobras’ Chief Executive Officer Jose Sergio Gabrielli met with technical teams in Brazil.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is scheduled to commemorate the event during a ceremony on a platform located at the field.
When asked whether Lula will take advantage of the event to announce changes to Brazil’s oil laws, Gabrielli told reporters, that doesn’t depend on me.
In 2008, Lula formed a working group to evaluate changes to Brazil’s oil laws that would give the government a greater take from development of massive deepwater oil deposits discovered off the country’s coast. Lula has pledged to use the newfound oil wealth to ease Brazil’s crushing poverty and improve the education system.
