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(Reuters) - European utilities are offering a slew of offshore wind farms, eager to cash in on high valuations as investors hungry for stable returns increasingly flock to the sector, people close to the matter said.FILE PHOTO: Power-generating windmill turbines are seen near Port Saint Louis du Rhone, near Marseille, May 7, 2014. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractors Noble Corporation and Pacific Drilling have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Noble will acquire Pacific Drilling in an all-stock transaction. It is worth mentioning that both of these companies have recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Pacific Drilling completed its balance-sheet restructuring and emerged from the Chapter 11 process in... Continue Reading →
Floatel International, a company providing offshore accommodation rigs for the oil and gas industry, said Wednesday it had successfully completed its comprehensive balance sheet restructuring. The company said it had secured a fully consensual deal among all key stakeholders, including its shareholders, 1L Bondholders, 2L Bondholders, and its Bank Vessel Facility lenders. In connection with... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, elected Mr. Salvador Dahan to the position of Chief Governance and Compliance Officer, as of May 1, 2021. Mr. Salvador Dahan has a Bachelor of Law from Mackenzie University, with an MBA in Business Security Management from FECAP and... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed today, informs that it has signed a contract with MC Brazil Downstream Participações, a company of the Mubadala Capital group, for the sale of the company's shares that will hold the Landulpho Alves Refinery (RLAM) and its associated logistics assets, in the state of... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 03/01/2021, informs that it received last week the second, and last, installment, in the amount of US$ 59.4 million, of the leniency agreement entered into by Samsung Heavy Industries. With these values, Petrobras surpasses R$ 5.7 billion in funds recovered through collaboration, leniency... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that Andrea Almeida, Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer, Carlos Alberto Pereira de Oliveira, Chief Exploration and Production Officer, André Chiarini, Chief Trading and Logistics Officer, and Rudimar Chief Production Development Officer, informed today to the Board of Directors that they do not intend to renew their respective terms.... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, as a follow up to the release disclosed on February 8, 2021, informs that the company's Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, approved the sale of the Landulpho Alves Refinery (RLAM) and its associated logistics assets, in Bahia, to Mubadala Capital for US$ 1.65 billion. The signing of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters)The first cargo from new oil producer Guyana to the world's third-largest crude importer, India, departed this month from a production facility off the South American nation's coast in a vessel chartered by trading firm Trafigura, data from Refinitiv Eikon showed on Tuesday. India has asked refiners to speed up the diversification of imports to cut... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - The deadly coronavirus wave that has torn through Brazil in recent weeks has not spared its oil industry, according to unions and government data reviewed by Reuters, with infections among workers jumping and production taking a hit. New COVID-19 cases among offshore oil workers rose to 46 on March 24 from 17 on... Continue Reading →
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