Last Monday, a director of the state-owned oil company announced that the Brazilian company Petrobras should seek to obtain all of the 40% of the Mopane oil and gas exploration block in Namibia. This block is put on sale by the Portuguese company Galp

Exploration and Production Director Sylvia dos Anjos announced that Petrobras would need all of the 40% in order to exploit the oil field. According to the latter, “operating with less than 40% is very bad... (Galp) proposed the operation, and no one is operating with less than 40%.” Anjos said that in July, had made a non-binding offer as part of the tender procedure opened by the Portuguese company, which would make it the operator of the field