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After having been suspended due to the adverse scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 17th Concession Round of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) will be resumed. The event will take place on October 7, 2021. The restart of the usual procedure for organizing the bid was approved this week during the meeting of the ANP... Continue Reading →
The companies EnP, Oil Group and Porto Central, today signed (26) a memorandum of intent to develop the project of a Refinery in Espírito Santo. The event was held in Vitória, with the presence of Governor Renato Casa Grande. RefinES is being studied to be implemented in the Porto Central area, a port industrial complex... Continue Reading →
Seismic contractor Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a large Ocean Bottom Node 4D Baseline survey in Brazil with the Brazilian national oil company Petrobras. The deepwater OBN survey will be carried out at the Jubarte Field in the Campos Basin. The 810 sq. km survey will start in the first half of 2021 and be... Continue Reading →
Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors approved, in a meeting held today, the Strategic Plan for the five-year period 2021-2025 (SP 2021-25). The plan maintains the 5 pillars that support the implementation of the company's set of strategies: (i) Maximization of the return on capital employed; (ii) Reduction of the cost of capital; (iii)... Continue Reading →
Brazil's potential for power generation with wind farms installed at sea, a technology that is on the rise in the world but still unprecedented in the country, entered the radar of government technicians and companies such as the Norwegian oil company Equinor and the electric company Neoenergia, of the group Spanish Iberdrola. The state-owned Energy... Continue Reading →
The secretary of oil and natural gas of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, José Mauro Ferreira, announced that the government should approve in December the so-called Promar – Mature Offshore Fields Revitalization and Incentive Program. The announcement was made during the opening of the Mossoró Oil & Gas event in Rio Grande do Norte.... Continue Reading →
Petrobras announced two relevant bids this week, involving subsea equipment and pipeline connection services on platforms. The first bid includes the acquisition of five umbilical termination units (UTA) for the Búzios 5 platform, FPSO Almirante Barroso. The second bid for a service contract for the operation of pull-in and pull-out systems for subsea pipelines on... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media, regarding the divestment of the Papa-Terra field, Campos Basin, clarifies that the stage of receiving binding offers was completed on 9/29/2020. As a result, on 10/29/2020, negotiations started with Starboard Asset Ltda (Starboard), a fund manager that has a relevant stake... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that the Petrobras Day will be held in Portuguese on November 30th, 2020 and in English on December 1st, 2020, when it will present its 2021-25 Strategic Plan. Petrobras will use the Microsoft Teams tool (link below) for the event. Petrobras Day Portuguese November 30th, 2020 Petrobras Day ... Continue Reading →
Group moves forward in negotiations to acquire its first deepwater project in the Campos Basin. 3R Oil & Gas should acquire the Papa-Terra field in Petrobras' divestment program. Sources linked to the business anticipated that the Brazilian group presented the best proposal in the process, being selected as the preferred leader. The company has already... Continue Reading →
