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Sept 22, 2020 Oil and gas project sanctions, especially in the offshore segment, are expected to rebound next year compared to the COVID-19 ravaged 2020, and even exceed the pre-pandemic levels from 2022 onwards, energy market analysts from Rystad Energy have said. Rystad on Tuesday somewhat upgraded its expectations for 2020 too, and now expects... Continue Reading →
Sept 22, 2020 Activity in Brazil’s energy patch keeps ratcheting ever higher. During January 2020, Latin America’s largest economy saw its all-important petroleum industry achieve a new milestone pumping on average a record 3.168 million barrels of crude daily. The COVID-19 pandemic and March 2020 oil price collapse did little to slow the oil boom... Continue Reading →
September 21, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (“Petrobras”) (NYSE: PBR) today announced the final results of the previously announced offers to purchase for cash by its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V. (“PGF”), of any and all of its outstanding notes of the series set forth in the table below (the “Notes” and such... Continue Reading →
September 21, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media, referring to the divestment of the Presidente Getúlio Vargas Refinery (Repar), clarifies that the binding stage of the competitive process counts with the participation of Ultrapar Participações S.A., the consortium led by Raízen S.A. and China Petroleum &... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 Niport will provide offshore support to ExxonMobil's exploratory drilling campaign in Brazil in 2021. The company recently won the bid from the North American oil company to carry out the logistical operation on two different fronts: one in Rio de Janeiro to support activities in the Santos Basin and another in the... Continue Reading →
September 18, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has launched two programs aimed at preparing its refining and natural gas activities for an open, competitive market and to transition into a low carbon economy. Biorefino 2030 forecasts projects for the generation of new, more modern and sustainable fuel, different than the current... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 Another offshore wind farm project is being developed, this time on the coast of Espírito Santo - confirming the rush of companies for a place in this new frontier of renewable energy generation in the country. Vestu Winds, a newly created company, headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, sees the possibility of installing... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 The former director general of the National Petroleum Agency, Décio Oddone, was appointed to assume the presidency of Enauta. Final approval of the executive's name still depends on approval by the company's Board of Directors, which will meet on Monday (21) to confirm the nomination. Oddone left the ANP at the end... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has received a notice of early termination of the charter party for the one of its vessels from Italian offshore contractor Saipem. Solstad Offshore said on Thursday that the vessel in question was the offshore construction vessel Normand Maximus. The vessel, at the time of construction, was... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 Approximately 11,000 employees of Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras have accepted buyout packages and will leave the firm this year or next, Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco said during an online event on Thursday. That number, which represents about a quarter of the company's workforce, is a slight increase from the 10,000... Continue Reading →
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