Territory, public power and economic agents: piped gas concession in São Paulo and the actions of the company Compass Gas & Energia S.A

• Grant number: 21/09060-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2021
• End date: February 20, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography
• Principal Investigator: Fabrício Gallo
• Grantee: Larissa Gabriella Silva Oliveira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

We propose to analyze the dynamics of private companies in the national territories, especially the concession of piped gas in São Paulo and the performance of the corporation Compass Gas & Energy SA in the dispute to acquire more influence in the management of differentiated territories according to their wishes. Moreover, in this debate also come into question the socio-spatial implications and changes in the Brazilian natural gas market after the New Regulatory Framework of 2020 approved by the federal government, which contributes to even greater competition in the use of territory by concessionaires. This is a demonstration of the phenomenon of the ingression of national politics in the dynamics of the international economic structure, in which it causes changes in the use of territory by economic agents and, in this process, the State, as a liberal agent of spatiality, has a fundamental role, in view of the fact that it articulates the national projects according to the particular attractions of the companies, providing the operation of the event. To investigate this dynamic in depth is also to make available some perspectives on the dynamics of the use of territory in the current phase of capitalism. (AU)