Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta, formerly known as QGEP, has once again been forced to stop production from the only producing well on the Atlanta field to replace a faulty heater only a day after restarting it following a shutdown in November 2020. The Atlanta field Early Production System started production in May 2018, almost two... Continue Reading →
ENAUTA: ATLANTA FIELD RETURNS TO PRODUCTION
Enauta announced the return of the operation of one of the production wells in the Atlanta field, in the Santos basin. Active production had been halted since November 2020. The 7-ATL-4HB-RJS well was initially producing 11,000 barrels of oil per day. Enauta plans to put into production the second well in the field (7-ATL-3H-RJS) still... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on approval of Petros Plan 3
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on January 18, 2021, informs that the Secretariat for Coordination and Governance of State-Owned Companies (SEST) and the National Private Pension Superintendence (PREVIC) approved the Petros Plan 3 (PP-3). PP-3 will be a private pension option exclusively aimed to voluntary and timely migration of... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on agreement with Sete Brasil
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on November 12, 2020, informs that it has received a notification from the Sete Brasil in which: (a) it indicates that will not comply with certain conditions set forth in the agreement that should be fully met by January 31, 2021; and (b) requests... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on Proved Reserves in 2020
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras discloses its proved reserves of oil, condensate and natural gas, according to SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) regulation, estimated at 8.816 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), as of December 31, 2020. Oil and condensate, and natural gas correspond to 86% and 14% of this total, respectively. In 2020, we... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on Chief Refining and Natural Gas Officer
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, approved the dismissal of Anelise Quintão Lara and elected Rodrigo Costa Lima e Silva as Chief Refining and Natural Gas Officer. The Refining and Natural Gas Office is responsible for the industrial operations of refining and natural gas and is... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 picks Tenaris for Bacalhau project off Brazil
Pipe producer Tenaris and Subsea 7 have signed an agreement for the supply of pipes and coating services for Bacalhau project offshore Brazil. Equinor is the operator of Bacalhau project, located 185 kilometres off the coast of São Paulo in Brazil. Discovered in 2012, the Bacalhau oilfield sits in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin at a depth... Continue Reading →
PETRO RIO CLOSING OF THE ACQUISITION OF 30% INTEREST IN FRADE
Petro Rio S.A. ("Company" or "PetroRio") (B3: PRIO3), in accordance with art. 26 of the Novo Mercado Regulation, and in addition to the Material Fact of November 28, 2019, informs its shareholders that the country’s National Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Agency (“ANP”) has approved the concession of the 30% interest in Frade Field, currently held... Continue Reading →
Rystad: Oilfield services sector will struggle to repeat former glory amid energy transition push
Oil and gas supply chain companies have seen their profits squeezed since the E&P cost cuts of the previous downturn – and just as the industry could finally hope for better days, the Covid-19 pandemic caused the value of 2020’s awarded contracts to slump to a 16-year low of $446 billion, according to Rystad Energy.... Continue Reading →
The last of the four relief vessels contracted by Petrobras, the Eagle Passos performs its first operation in the Santos Basin pre-salt
Eagle Passos, the last of the four new relievers hired to increase Petrobras' flow capacity, concluded this Tuesday its first oil transfer operation, carried out in the Tupi field, in the Santos Basin. The oil, collected from the P-67 and Cidade de Saquarema platforms, was subsequently unloaded from Eagle Passos to an export vessel in... Continue Reading →