Os Efeitos Multiplicadores da Indústria Brasileira de Petróleo.

The text aims to analyze the multiplying effects that the oil industry is able to impel, and the Brazilian economy is taken as empirical reference. It begins introducing the main arguments concerning the relation between that industry and development. Subsequently, the new frontiers opened by the discovery of large oil reserves in the pre-salt layers of the Brazilian continental shelf are approached. The third and last item of the text presents the effects that the mentioned discoveries have already been causing to the oil business related industry, to technological research advances and to labor force qualification. The text is closed with a caution advice, since the pre-salt reserves give the country the possibility to offer income increase and thousands of jobs to future generations, as well as the capacity to strengthen local capital through the formation of new companies. However, all this wealth may not be turned into a lever that gets the country out of the emerging condition. A frustrating scenario may occur through the frivolous employment of this wealth by our elected officials, combined to public unawareness and indifference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]