(Bloomberg) -- Petrobras’s new management should carry out a two-month review of the oil giant’s business plan to bring it more into line with Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s wider policy goals, according recommendations from Lula’s transition team. The energy experts who worked on Lula’s transition concluded that Petrobras’s existing $78 billion five-year... Continue Reading →
PGS adds Petrobras to 2023 list
(OET) Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras has awarded Norwegian seismic company PGS with a 4D production contract over the Barracuda-Caratinga field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil. The Ramform Victory will most likely be rigged to acquire the Barracuda-Caratinga 4D survey, supported by PGS Apollo as a source vessel, the Norwegian company said. Mobilization is scheduled to start in the... Continue Reading →
Technology for offshore wind measurement is developed by Petrobras
(TN) Petrobras started testing the Bravo technology (Remote Buoy for Offshore Wind Assessment). The equipment, capable of measuring wind speed and direction, is essential for measurements aimed at implementing offshore wind generation projects. The total investment is BRL 9 million and there is a forecast that the use of this technology, unprecedented in the country,... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on the start of P-71 production
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, informs that it put into operation, this Wednesday (Dec,21), the P-71 platform vessel, installed in the Itapu field, in the Santos Basin pre- salt area, 200 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The start of production has been anticipated, as it was originally scheduled for 2023. From Petrobras'... Continue Reading →
Petrobras begins the non-binding phase for the sale of POSA
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 10/14/2022, informs the beginning of the non-binding phase regarding the sale of 100% of its equity interest in Petrobras Operaciones S.A. (POSA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petrobras in Argentina and holder of a 33.6% interest in the Rio Neuquén Field. Potential buyers qualified... Continue Reading →
Petrobras concludes the sale of E&P Carmopolis assets in Sergipe
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 12/23/2021, informs that it has concluded today the sale of all its stakes in the set of 11 concessions of onshore fields of oil and gas production, with integrated facilities, located in the state of Sergipe, jointly called Carmópolis Custer, to the company... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on payment of remuneration to shareholders
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 11/03/2022, informs that it has carried out today the payment of the 1st installment of the remuneration to shareholders approved by its Board of Directors in a meeting held on that date. The gross amount distributed today corresponds to dividends of R$ 1,67445... Continue Reading →
Production Resumes from Cidade de Anchieta FPSO After January 2022 Shutdown
Dutch FPSO leasing company SBM Offshore said Tuesday that production had resumed from its FPSO Cidade de Anchieta, offshore Brazil, after a lengthy shutdown. The Cidade de Anchieta, under contract with Petrobras in Brazil, has been shut down since January 22, 2022, after oil was spotted near the vessel. SBM Offshore said in one of its... Continue Reading →
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine Resolves Corruption Case in Brazil
(OE) Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine (KOM) has reached a joint resolution with the authorities in Brazil, in relation to the corrupt payments made by a former agent of Keppel Offshore & Marine in Brazil, which was previously announced in December 2017. Back in December 2017, Keppel Offshore % Marine, reached a global resolution with... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on the sale of Araucária Nitrogenados S.A.
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 10/30/2020, informs that, observing the applicable internal governance, the termination of the competitive process for the sale of all its shares in the wholly owned subsidiary Araucária Nitrogenados S.A. (ANSA), which was in the binding phase, was approved. Petrobras will evaluate its next... Continue Reading →