The proposal is understood to have come from the manager of state oil holding Petroleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) in discussion with Petrobras' gas and energy director Ildo Sauer. "At the beginning, then Minister of Mines and Energy, and now Senior Minister of the President's Civil Cabinet, Dilma Rouseff was not very convinced about the idea, and supported instead transportation of Peruvian gas as part of a project called 'The gas ring', the Brazilian daily newspaper O Globo has reported. According to the newspaper, Petrobras technicians think that the fuel could be marketed at competitive prices in Brazil – at around $2.60 / million Btu, as against $3.60/million Btu for Bolivian gas.