This paper provides guidance for all stakeholders interested in investments in the oil and gas pipeline industry in foriegn markets, with an emphasis on substantially investing in Brazil's oil and gas pipeline market, including building new pipelines or puchasing existing pipeline assets. While the paper focuses on Brazil the oil and gas pipeline industry, many lessons can be learned as to why other markets have fleeting investment and how global factors impact where investment or divestment occurs.

*Brazil is open for business.* Over the past several years, the devaluation of the Brazilian real, the creation of a more flexible tax and fiscal regime in Brazil, the shift from protectionist and resource nationalization to market-oriented and resource liberalization policies of South America in general, and the continued expansion of asset divestment plans of Brazil’s largest oil producer – Petrobras – has opened up the Brazil oil and gas pipeline industry for substantial foreign investment opportunities. 

*Foreign investors will learn how to avoid failure and enable success.* Unfamiliarity with accessing and navigating the underlying structures, systems and business processes in the oil and gas pipeline industry in Brazil can lead potential foreign investors to hesitate and miss strategic opportunities to enter this rapidly evolving market. 

*Learn how to enter the Brazilian pipeline marketplace. *This comprehensive overview of the advantages, challenges and approaches to successfully doing business in the Brazil oil and gas pipeline industry will provide prospective foreign investors with ability to successfully enter and navigate this dynamic economy.  

This papers contains investment guidance and insights on legal, fiscal, taxation, regulatory and business processes in Brazil’s oil and gas pipeline sector that executive teams and boards of directors of large financial institutions, such as large oil and gas companies and large financial institutions can utilize to evaluate and execute investments in the oil and gas pipeline sector in Brazil. 


Understanding Why and How Pipeline Companies Enter Foreign Markets, Such as Brazil

Division / Sponsors: 
Pipeline Systems Division

Paper Proceedings: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IPC/IPC2020/volume/84447

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