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June 30 (OE) Cidade de Niterói MV18 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) unit, owned and operated by MODEC, has arrived at a ship recycling facility in Denmark after completing charter and operations and maintenance services for Petrobras at the Marlim Leste field offshore Brazil. The FPSO departed Brazil following the completion of demobilization... Continue Reading →
June 25 (oinow.gy) SBM Offshore says the GranMorgu floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit will be the largest FPSO it has delivered to date, as construction advances in China for Suriname’s first offshore oil development. Pierre Gaté, Country Entry Manager for SBM Offshore Suriname, provided the update on day 2 of the Suriname Energy,... Continue Reading →
On June 23, the Búzios field, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt, reached a record average daily production of 1.1 million barrels of oil per day, surpassing the 1-million mark achieved in October 2025. As the country's largest field in terms of production and reserve volume, Búzios accounts for approximately one-third of all oil production... Continue Reading →
Rio de Janeiro, June 23, 2026 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), with the purpose of establishing strategic and technical cooperation for the assessment, development and joint execution of projects in the hydrocarbons industry, including the development of opportunities in the... Continue Reading →
June 23 (OE) Energy and marine consultancy ABL has opened a new office in Salvador, Brazil, expanding its presence in the country and strengthening its asset integrity management offering for the oil and gas, maritime and industrial sectors. The new office will support asset integrity management projects in Brazil and across the wider Americas region,... Continue Reading →
June 19, 2026 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors today approved the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the RPBC Biorefining project, which provides for the implementation of a dedicated plant for the production of bio-jet fuel and renewable diesel at the Presidente Bernardes Refinery (RPBC), located in Cubatão (São... Continue Reading →
June 18 - The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) approved, without restrictions, the acquisition of control of Brava Energia (BRAV3) by Ecopetrol, removing another regulatory step for the completion of the operation. The decision comes a day after Brava announced that the public takeover bid (OPA) launched by the Colombian oil company was temporarily... Continue Reading →
June 18 (offshore-energy.biz) A multi-client 3D seismic survey is on the agenda at one of the frontier regions in Brazilian waters, with Norway’s energy data and intelligence company TGS and its joint venture (JV) partner, U.S.-headquartered SLB, at the helm of the campaign that will help boost the hydrocarbon exploration momentum in the South American... Continue Reading →
June 17 - BRAVA ENERGIA S.A. (“Brava” or the “Company”) (B3: BRAV3), hereby informs its investors and the market in general that it has received, on this date, a request for arbitration from Westlawn Energia Brasil Ltda. ("Westlawn"), in which Westlawn claims, among other matters, that the transaction announced by the Company involving Ecopetrol and the... Continue Reading →
June 17 (Reuters) - Brazil will end subsidies for diesel and gasoline if the price of crude oil stabilizes around $80 per barrel due to progress toward a U.S.-Iran deal to end their conflict, the executive secretary of the Finance Ministry, Rogerio Ceron, told Reuters. Ceron said in a Tuesday interview that de-escalation in the... Continue Reading →
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