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(Reuters) - Chevron Corp on Tuesday outlined a plan to expand oil and gas production through 2025, but without spending significantly more, and pledged to limit the pace of growth of its carbon emissions. Falling energy demand due to pandemic-driven lockdowns sent the industry into a tailspin in 2020 and led Chevron to a $5.54... Continue Reading →
Fugro is carrying out seep survey and geochemical campaign for Petronas in Block 48, offshore Suriname. Petronas hired the Dutch-based surveyor in order to optimise future exploration activities in this frontier area. The work, conducted from the survey vessel MV Fugro Brasilis, involves geophysical data collection; heat flow measurements; core sampling as well as onboard geochemical... Continue Reading →
Rio de Janeiro, March 10, 2021 - Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that received official letter from the Ministry of Mines and Energy with two nominations for the Board of Directors in the next Extraordinary General Meeting, selected as provided in art. 18, § 7, of Petrobras’ Bylaws: Cynthia Santana Silveira Ana Silvia Corso Matte... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas companies Apache and Total have been forced to stop drilling operations at an offshore well in Suriname due to "substantial pressure increases." As announced on January 14, the Keskesi East-1 well discovered oil, volatile oil, and condensate in the Upper Cretaceous-aged Campanian and Santonian intervals and, subsequently, continued drilling toward deeper Neocomian-aged... Continue Reading →
Dutch FPSO giant SBM Offshore has ordered the fourth Fast4Ward FPSO hull from the Chinese Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) shipyard. SWS said that his type of FPSO hull also adopts SBM’s ‘universal’ hull design concept and has an oil storage capacity of 2.3 million barrels of crude oil. It also meets the marine environmental conditions... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on March 3, 2021, informs that it has received a letter from Fundo de Investimento em Ações Dinâmica Energia and Banclass Fundo de Investimento em Ações, managed by Banco Clássico S.A., indicating Leonardo Pietro Antonelli for election to the company's Board of Directors,... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil is set to drill another well in the Canje Block, offshore Guyana, after it was last week announced that the first well drilled -the Bulletwood-1 - failed to strike commercial oil volumes. ExxonMobil has now moved Stena Drilling's Stena Carron drillship to the Jabillo-1 well location in the same block and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Monday annulled the criminal convictions against former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a move that could allow the popular politician to run in next year’s presidential election. The decision roiled financial markets and scrambled forecasts for the 2022 race, with many investors betting it would... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that received official letters from the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Ministry of Economy with six nominations for the next Extraordinary General Meeting, to exercise the position of the company’s Board of Directors members: Eduardo Bacellar Leal Ferreira – Chairman of the Board Joaquim Silva e LunaRuy Flaks... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Yemen's Houthi forces fired drones and missiles at the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry on Sunday, including a Saudi Aramco facility at Ras Tanura vital to petroleum exports, in what Riyadh called a failed assault on global energy security.The Saudi energy ministry said there were no casualties or loss of property from the... Continue Reading →
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