Brazil to join 石油輸出国機構+ but won't cap oil 生産(高), Petrobras CEO says

By Rodrigo Viga Gaier

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Brazil is 推定する/予想するd to join the 石油輸出国機構+ group of oil-producing countries in January but would not 参加する the group's 連係させた 生産(高) caps, the 長,指導者 (n)役員/(a)執行力のある of 明言する/公表する-run oil 会社/堅い Petrobras told Reuters.

The group's surprising

告示

on Thursday that the South American nation would join it raised 即座の questions on whether Brazil would 参加する the 生産/産物 caps, as 石油輸出国機構+ nations agreed to

voluntary 削減(する)s

approaching 2 million バーレル/樽s per day (bpd) for 早期に next year.

"There is no 割当," ジーンズ Paul Prates said in an interview. "We would never be part of an organization that 課すs (生産/産物) 割当s to Brazil, Petrobras is a 公然と-貿易(する)d company and we cannot have 割当s."

Brazil's energy 大臣 said on Thursday the country was eager to join 石油輸出国機構+ after a 十分な technical 分析. 大統領 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's office 確認するd receiving the 招待する, but said he had not 正式に 答える/応じるd.

Brazil is the largest oil 生産者 in South America, at 4.6 million バーレル/樽s per day of oil and gas, of which 3.7 million bpd are 天然のまま.

Prates, who in October received 石油輸出国機構 長官 General Haitham Al Ghais in Brazil, 公式文書,認めるd 石油輸出国機構+ was a group that 含むs countries with no 投票(する)ing 権利s and to which 生産/産物 caps are not 課すd, which would be the 事例/患者 of Brazil.

He welcomed Brazil's move to join the group.

"Brazil would start 参加するing in the 会合s as some 肉親,親類d of 観察者/傍聴者 member, which I think is really nice," Prates said, 追加するing the move would be 重要な to 石油輸出国機構's and Brazil's energy 移行 成果/努力s.

He 推定する/予想するs Brazil to 正式に 受託する the 招待 by June. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Rodrigo Viga Gaier; 令状ing by Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Steven Grattan)

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