Geopolítica, segurança jurídica e inserção do Brasil na questão energética internacional

Abstract

This article presents geopolitical factors that deal with the oil and natural gas industry’s evolution. This analysis, even short, search for a better understanding of the international markets of energy instability, in this first decade of century XXI. In this context, Brazil, after shifting the oil and gas laws in 1990’s, comes getting considerable growth of the production of fluid hydro-carbons, and now is to be next to a situation of support of its self-sufficiency. The country has also a potential condition of oil and gas supplier in the international markets (if information of large oil and gas reserves recent discovered in the geologic province of Bacia de Santos wild be confirmed). So, it becomes necessary getting new strategies to increase: the capacity of attracting investments, such as regulation laws; and, the country’s geopolitical insertion in international the energy scene. The geopolitical valuation of the Brazilian State, as a global energy supplier, will allow, there is no doubt, to strengthen traditional postulates of its external politics, based on cooperation and peace between the nations.