Matheus Varanda

Senior Specialist S&P Global Commodity Insights

Matheus Varanda is a senior specialist for the Upstream Costs and Supply Chain team at S&P Global Commodity Insights. He focuses on E&P activity, market fundamentals, market segments demand, supply capacity, and cost drivers in Latin America. Previously, Mr. Varanda worked as assistant controller at Ocyan, as upstream specialist consultant at Deloitte, and as consultant at the partnership between UN-Habitat and Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall, where he led projects aimed at capturing the O&G industry’s potential for the city.

Mr. Varanda holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a specialization in O&G both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. 

Pre-Congress Focus Day: New Frontiers of Exploration: Opportunities in the Equatorial Margin (20 May 2025)

10:40 AM Unlocking the Potential of Equatorial Margin: Challenges and Opportunities

Unlocking the Potential of Equatorial Margin: Challenges and Opportunities

Located to the north of Brazil, the Equatorial Margin has an important oil potential and offers many new possibilities.  

  • Exploring the vast potential of Brazil's Equatorial Margin: what we know so far about the Equatorial Margin
  • Addressing environmental concerns to ensure safe and responsible exploration and production including: its geography, concern locations, environmental risks 
  • What can be done to curb the environmental risks?

12:05 PM Roundtable B: Investment Opportunities and Risks in FPSO Projects in the Equatorial Margin

·      Main challenges in financing new FPSO projects 

·      How to mitigate construction risk to ensure project bankability 

·      ESG restrictions and reduction of liquidity for greenfield projects 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Matheus.

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