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With efforts accelerating to develop offshore wind farms, there remain many unresolved questions on the scope of U.S. cabotage laws and how specifically the Jones Act will be applied to the construction of the wind farms. While the U.S. has said that it will apply the regulations in a similar fashion to their previous applications... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - German oil and gas producer Wintershall Dea (WINT.UL) said on Thursday it will look beyond Russia for growth in a "fundamental" change for the company, but will retain its assets there to avoid them falling to the Russian state. "There can be and will be no 'business as usual' with Russia now," Chief... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) will expand plans to buy back its own shares, the French energy group said on Thursday after first-quarter core earnings rose sharply on soaring oil and gas prices. The oil and gas major, which is bolstering its renewables and electricity portfolios, is now planning $3 billion of share buybacks during the first half... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 02/21/2020 and 02/04/2022, informs that sale process of 100% of its Nitrogen Fertilizer Unit III (UFN-III), located in the city of Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, with the Russian group Acron hasn’t been concluded, considering that the business plan proposed by the... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC has reported $1.9 billion of inbound subsea orders in the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 83% when compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, resulting in a book-to-bill of 1.5. For the Subsea segment, TechnipFMC reported revenue of $1,289.1 million, a 4.3% increase from the fourth quarter of 2021, primarily said to... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it signed today the Production Sharing Contract for the Surplus Volumes to the Transfer of Rights of Atapu in partnership with Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda (Shell - 25%) and TotalEnergies EP Brasil Ltda. (TotalEnergies - 22.5%), and a Production Sharing Contract for the Surplus Volumes to the Transfer... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it received today, at sight, the amount of R$ 14.55 billion from TotalEnergies EP Brasil Ltda. (TotalEnergies), Petronas Petróleo Brasil Ltda. (Petronas) and QP Brasil Ltda. (QP), related to the 70% stake of these companies in the Sépia compensation, block acquired by the consortium composed by Petrobras (30%),... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 09/16/2021, informs that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, approved the sale of its entire stake (27.88%) in Deten Química S.A (Deten), located in the industrial complex of Camaçari, in the state of Bahia, to the company Cepsa Química S.A.,... Continue Reading →
Craig Fleming (WO) With the havoc created by the war in Ukraine and the hard push to convert to renewables, operators are once again focusing on the high ROI that offshore prospects offer. There is an onslaught of good news and positive indicators that suggest operators are poised to significantly increase offshore development in 2022. ... Continue Reading →
In 1Q22, Petrobras kept a solid operating performance, with average oil, NGL and natural gas production reaching 2.80 MMboed, 3.4% above 4Q21. This result was achieved mainly due to the continuity of the ramp-ups of FPSOs Carioca (Sépia field) and P-68 (Berbigão and Sururu fields), located in the pre-salt of Santos Basin, to the lower... Continue Reading →
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