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Jul 17, 2020 BP Energy initiated the licensing of an exploratory well in the BM-C-35 block, in the Campos Basin. It intends to start the campaign in August 2022 and the well is part of the commitment made to the ANP in the Discovery Assessment Plan (PAD) of the Basilisco prospect. After Petrobras' decision to... Continue Reading →
Jul 16, 2020 Wintershall DEA started the licensing process for an exploratory well in the area of block CE-M-601, in deep waters of the Ceará Basin. The vertical well will be drilled in a 2000 m water depth slide and the company expects to find oil, with an average estimate of 24º API. The CE-M-601... Continue Reading →
Energy industry analysts seem to agree that the future is bright, or at least brighter, when it comes to the contracting activity for the floating production systems, from 2021 onwards after COVID-19 and low oil prices hit the market in 2020. Norway's Rystad earlier this week said that, apart from the Sangomar FPSO ordered by... Continue Reading →
July 16, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), an organization which Petrobras is a member, established a new collective target to reduce the carbon intensity of upstream operations. The new collective target sets an intensity between 20 kg and 21 kg CO2 for each barrel of... Continue Reading →
July 15, 2020 BOGOTA, Colombia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GeoPark Limited (“GeoPark” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GPRK), a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador, today announced its operational update for the three-month period ended June 30, 2020 (“2Q2020”). All figures are... Continue Reading →
July 15, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 09/30/2019, informs that it has finalized today the sale of its entire participation in two onshore production fields (Ponta do Mel and Redonda), located in the Potiguar Basin, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, to Central Resources do... Continue Reading →
July 15, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 07/24/2019, reports that it has today completed the sale of its entire stake in the ten fields that comprise the Pampo and Enchova Clusters, located in shallow water in the Campos Basin in the state of Rio de Janeiro, to... Continue Reading →
Jul 15, 2020 The Búzios field is the highlight of the news this Wednesday (15). The novelty now is that the second phase of the asset should begin in 2024, according to Petrobras president Roberto Castello Branco. The executive also confirmed that, in this new stage, FPSOs with a greater production capacity than those used... Continue Reading →
Jul 14, 2020 Altogether, 40 small and medium-sized companies, 30 of which are Brazilian, are in the dispute to buy onshore mature oil fields from Petrobras, reveals Roberto Ardenghy, director of Institutional Relations at the state-owned company. With the pandemic, the company postponed for 12 months the conclusion of the sale of its 157 onshore... Continue Reading →
July 14, 2020 Petrobras accepted only one proposal to adapt the gas submarine network of the project in the Campos Basin Mota Engil Engenharia was the only company to have a proposal accepted by Petrobras in the bid for the acquisition of goods and services to adapt the underwater gas network of Parque das Baleias.... Continue Reading →
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