Milton highlighted some special moments in the history of institute during 2018. The Rio Oil & Gas, for example, gathered more than 42.000 people, a 24% increase in visitation, and thousand content presentations. For the first time, the congress underlined transversal themes such as digital technologies and gender diversity in the O&G industry.

“An innovation at Rio Oil & Gas was the content offer. It was a huge success I hope spread Brazil OTC that we will held next years”, affirmed.

Other new feature, also during the Rio Oil & Gas, was the release of UnIBP, the first oil, gas and biofuels university, that represents the transition from a traditional model of training to a continuous learning format, focused on the needs of professionals who work or who wish to work in the industry.

“It’s a favorable moment to change methodology, learning, approach, which we will offer, to the industry, the possibility to capacitate them in its human resources. I, personally, think the biggest challenge of this industry resumption will be the human capital”, defended.

Antonio Guimarães punctuated the participation of employees and volunteers in the intelligence created inside the institute and defended the role of IBP as representative of the industry, especially in the moment of energy transition.

“IBP brings its ideas, expose and provoke a debate that permeates society, our leaders, the executive, the legislative and the regulator. We create dialogue”, he defended, pointed out that even more important than the industry success, the institute’s goal is to promote what is good to the country. “What we will produce, if we succeed, is wealth for Brazil, which means employment, investment, payment of taxes, and improvement of the fiscal situation and leverage of the Brazilian economy”.

In 2018, the sector also invested in a new communication format. A modern initiative lead by IBP, the Além da Superfície campaign, is on media outlets since September, with the aim of showing to the public the impact of the sector in the country´s economic development. You can watch the teaser and access the website to find out more.

Through the years, the Institute built an open and democratic space, guided by the respect to diverge opinions and by the quest for the balance of interests; a place to share technical knowledge, exchange experiences and promote the best practices in the oil and gas sector.

The IBP’s origin is associated with knowledge. To join experts from many areas and segments and contribute to nurture, growth and preservation of knowledge is the role of IBP’s technical and sectorial committees. The know-how generated inside those committees concentrates information, anticipates trends and diffuses good practices that reinforces the technical improvement of professionals and the progress of regulatory and technology environment.

The activities of the IBP’s 37 committees are based on the alignment of efforts, result of a long-standing shared work for the development of the sector. The groups transversely also enables the generation of products and services, through debates focused on quality, technology, regulation, among other topics.

Over the last two years, the resumption of the bid rounds calendar and the permanent areas offering, associated with measures that helped to create a regulatory framework to foster investments attraction, have consolidated the recent oil and gas industry transformation in Brazil and generated an important window of opportunity for wealth, job creation, taxes revenue, as well as stimulating innovation and competitiveness.

The industry actors

The IBP, as the Home to Our Industry, works to bring together the different players in the oil and gas sector, acting to gather interests, disseminate technical knowledge and good practices, and also show the potential of one of the industries that most contributes to the strengthening of Brazil’s economy.

Together with its 200 companies and 120 associated professionals, the institute is working to build, on a daily basis, an environment of knowledge and expertise sharing, helping to amplify business opportunities and engagement between stakeholders.

Find more about IBP activities and our calendar for future events and courses.