– PRIO S.A. ("Company" or "PRIO") (B3: PRIO3) informs its shareholders and the market in general that, at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on this date, the payment of interim dividends, to the account of the unrealized profits reserve, in the total gross amount of R$60,615,773.09 (sixty million, six hundred and fifteen... Continue Reading →
3R Petroleum November Production Data
3R PETROLEUM ÓLEO E GÁS S.A. (“3R” or “Company”) (B3: RRRP3), following best practices in corporate governance, informs its investors and the market in general the preliminary unaudited production data for November 2023. (1) It does not consider gas production at Areia Branca, Fazenda Belém and Papa Terra Clusters, as those volumes are consumed in... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Lula Reluctantly Becomes Mediator in Venezuela-Guyana Crisis
(Bloomberg) President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has long tried to position himself as an independent arbiter in global conflicts, now faces the uncomfortable task of mediating a crisis between Brazil’s northern neighbors Venezuela and Guyana. Escalating tensions over Essequibo, an oil-rich region roughly the size of Florida that’s controlled by Guyana but claimed... Continue Reading →
More work for Weatherford with Petrobras
(OET) U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford International has secured a multi-year contract to deliver drill pipe riser (DPR) intervention services to Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras. Weatherford announced it had been awarded a five-year contract with Petrobras in Brazil, after a competitive tender, to provide DPR ultra-deepwater offshore intervention systems and services. The new seven-system... Continue Reading →
France Earmarks EUR 4.12 Billion for 2024 Floating Wind Tender
(OW) The European Commission has given France the green light to support the construction and operation of two floating offshore wind farms in the Gulf of Lion with EUR 4.12 billion, which will be awarded through a tender the French government is expected to launch next year. Developers of the two floating wind farms, each... Continue Reading →
Yinson invests in carbon capture technology firm to curb emissions from FPSO ops
(OET) Yinson Production, an offshore production business arm of Malaysia’s Yinson Holdings, has made a move to slash its carbon footprint by making a strategic investment in Ionada, in recognition of the potential the firm’s carbon capture technology holds as a tool to decarbonize FPSO operations and lead to emissions reduction in the hard-to-abate industries.... Continue Reading →
Prysmian wins €100 million contract with Petrobras
(OET) Italian cabling giant Prysmian has secured a contract worth over €100 million with Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras for the provision of umbilicals and steel tube. Under the contract, Prysmian will deliver 170 kilometers of deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals and the related specialized offshore and logistic services. The deep-water steel tube and thermoplastic umbilicals... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s priciest power transmission auction expects few bidders
(Reuters) - Brazil's largest-ever power transmission auction by expected investment volume may see little competition, experts and executives said, as the need for billions of dollars in investments and tech expertise may dissuade potential bidders. In the last five years, Brazil's transmission lines auctions have had on average at least six bidders for each allotment,... Continue Reading →
ANP sends new studies on two pre salt blocks to the MME
(PN) The board of directors of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) approved the geological and economic studies that resulted in the delimitation of two more pre-salt exploratory blocks: Rubi and Granada, both located in the Santos Basin. The agency will forward the studies to the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) to analyze the feasibility... Continue Reading →
China’s Envision Energy Says ‘Easy’ to Triple Renewables
(Reuters) Chinese wind turbine maker Envision Energy believes "it's easy" to meet an international pledge made at the COP28 climate summit to triple renewables by 2030. "This is not visionary," Envision CEO Lei Zhang told Reuters on the sidelines of the summit in Dubai. "If you look at the wind and solar growth rate in... Continue Reading →