Brazil’s PPSA sold Atapu field oil cargo to Equinor

(PN) PPSA carried out, this week, the direct sale to Equinor of the Union’s second oil load from the Atapu field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The Norwegian oil company purchased 500,000 barrels of oil, with a price offer based on the reference value established for Atapu oil by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP).

In all, six companies were signed up to participate in the process, but only Equinor and Petrobras submitted bids. All price offers were opened in real time in a meeting held on the Teams platform between PPSA and representatives of the participating companies. The marketed cargo will be available at the end of September. This was the first time that the Norwegian company participated in a competitive process for the purchase of oil from the Union.

In January of this year, PPSA sold the Union’s first oil load in Atapu, also in the direct sale process. At the time, the cargo, of 500,000 barrels, was acquired by Galp Energia Brasil – which had won the process carried out by PPSA, in August 2022, for the sale of the first cargo of oil from Sépia, also of 500,000 barrels. barrels.