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| Author(s): |
Miguel Vieira de Lima
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-01-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Marta Inez Medeiros Marques;
Ricardo Abid Castillo;
Fabio Betioli Contel;
Pierre Alves Costa;
Manoel Fernandes de Sousa Neto
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| Advisor: | Antonio Carlos Robert Moraes |
| Abstract | |
This study aimed to construct the trajectory of expansion of petroleum activity in Brazil. We dealt with the setting of their productive materiality, which gives a certain location to workflows, a visible consequence of the appreciation of space engendered by the petroleum economy. Some evolutionary characteristics of energy systems, such as their techno-scientific content, the high degree of connectivity and interdependence of their production stages and flows, in addition to their specialization, contribute to propose their observation as an engineering system, acting as a productive space circuit. With the petroleum exploitation of the continental shelf, the country also happens to know a new territorial configuration. The production cycle is distributed in an extremely concentrated and unequal manner. The state of Rio de Janeiro is the oil company state of Brazil, from where the commands of the circuit are issued. At the same time, it represents approximately 50% of production functions. The state of São Paulo is defined by the centrality of logistic-industrial system, with around 40% of the full capacity of terminals and refineries in Brazil. The coastal area, in the stretch that extends between the states of Ceará and Rio Grande do Sul, has 96% of the productive functions of the circuit. The recent RD I policy is an important move on extending the nexus of cooperation; although concentrated, the placement of this policy has produced positive effects, contrary to what is observed in the case of royalties, whose policy, guided by a biased reading of the space, leads to severe spatial distortions. The existence of a highly concentrated spatial distribution of oil capital, combined with the lack of tools that increase the social control of energy policy and that also ensure greater democratization of the generated resources, represent some of the challenges posed to a new period marked by the surplus paradigm. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/12801-5 - Oil and territory in Brazil |
| Grantee: | Miguel Vieira de Lima |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |