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{{Short description|Organization regulating the oil industry}}
The '''National Petroleum Council''' ('''Conselho Nacional do Petróleo''' or '''CNP''') is a Brazilian [[organization]] that was established in 1938 to "supervise, regulate, and carry out the [[oil industry]] activities previously executed by the '''SFPM''' (de Oliveira, 2012)<ref name="Oil and Governance: State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply">{{cite book|last1=de Oliveira|first1=Adilson|title=Brazil's Petrobras: strategy and performance|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=521}}</ref> The SFPM (Service for Promotion of Mineral Production, according to de Oliveira) was a previous [[governmental organization]] established to encourage the search and production of [[mineral]]s and [[oil]] but proved to fail. The CNP was headed by General Horta Barbosa and its first mission was to find [[oil]] in [[Bahia]].
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