Before the COVID pandemic, oil and gas companies invested only a small fraction of their capital on sustainable energy technologies. With the substantial improvement in the performance of batteries and their rapid cost ...

Due to the success of shale gas developments observed in the US and lack of domestic legislation specifically for unconventional gas projects in the countries, an arising question is whether replicating the fiscal terms ...

I study a scoring auctions implemented in Brazil to sell oil exploration rights. Differently from most sales of this kind, bidders had to submit a multi-dimensional bid that included a bonus and an exploratory program. A ...

This paper analyses the development of spot market gas prices at the TTF gas hub from 2011 – 2014. The long run link of the gas price with the prices of the energy commodities crude oil and coal is evaluated with the ...

This work proposes the PetroBERT, which is a BERT-based model adapted to the oil and gas exploration domain in Portuguese. PetroBERT was pre-trained using the Petrolês corpus and a private daily drilling report corpus over ...