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Keppel Offshore & Marine (KOM), a subsidiary of Singapore’s Keppel Corporation, is being sued by the eight funds managed by EIG Management Company, with a claim of almost $820m over the loss of an investment. The civil action by EIG Funds is being heard in the US District Court, Southern District of New York. In... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - A Brazilian Senate investigative committee approved a report on Tuesday that calls for President Jair Bolsonaro to be indicted for nine crimes related to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including crimes against humanity. The report, which is more than 1,300 pages long and took the opposition-controlled committee about six months to prepare,... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has awarded a two-year contract for Valaris' drillship Valaris DS-9 for operations in Angola. The drillship, formerly known as Ensco DS-9, will work for ExxonMobil's Angolan subsidiary Esso Exploration Angola. Delivered in 2015 by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, the drillship is currently preservation stacked in the Canary Islands, Spain.... Continue Reading →
Petro Rio S.A. (“Company” or “PetroRio”), following best corporate governance practices, informs its shareholders and the market in general of the start of production of the TBMT-10H well, in the Tubarão Martelo Field (“TBMT”), with initial production of approximately 3,800 barrels of oil per day, still in the assessment period. The TBMT-10H well was drilled... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Galp's recently acquired solar energy projects in Brazil should require investments between €500,000 and €700,000 per MW, informed the company's executive director, Andy Brown, at an investor conference on Monday. “But we expect to get 65%-70% financing as well, so the equity contribution is much smaller,” he said. Located in Bahia and Rio Grande... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Schlumberger signed a contract with Petrobras to supply completion systems for 21 wells in pre-salt concessions. Installation of the systems is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2022. The deal is the result of a public tender for the supply of direct hydraulic intelligent completion systems and selective lower completion systems. Petrobras... Continue Reading →
Pre-Sal Petróleo published in the Official Gazette of the Union, the notice of the 3rd Union Oil Auction, which will sell more than 55 million barrels of oil owned by the Union in the fields of Búzios, Sapinhoá and Tupi and the Mero Development Area. The auction will take place at B3 on November 26th.... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in relation to news published in the media regarding studies carried out by the government to sell Petrobras shares and lose the majority of the Company's shareholding control, informs that it inquired the its controlling shareholder, through the Ministry of Economy (ME), on the existence or not of such studies... Continue Reading →
(OE) The world’s FPSO fleet is getting older, with 55 FPSO units in the global fleet reaching the end of their design life in the next five years, with an additional five having life extension in place. With 19 more FPSOs currently being evaluated for life extension, safety issues and structural integrity concerns come to... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro repeated on Monday that he is considering the privatization of state-run oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA), remarks that lifted the company's share price. "This is on our radar," the far-right president said during a radio interview. "But privatizing a company is not just putting it on a shelf and whoever offers... Continue Reading →
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