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Brazilian oil giant Petrobras (PETR4.SA) said on Friday that its cash burn could reach $1 billion a month in periods of extreme stress and volatility, noting the current level of uncertainty in being able to accurately predict spending. The state-owned firm, formerly known as Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., cited current costs, expenses and volatile oil prices... Continue Reading →
May 8, 2020 Oil company plans to drill up to three wells in the Patola discovery area, in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin Karoon submitted a project to Ibama to drill two production wells and a contingent in the area of the discovery of Patola, in the south of the Santos Basin. The... Continue Reading →
May 08, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras in view of the news published today in the media regarding the meeting held on 05/06/2020 by the Executive Board in an internal event with the company's employees, clarifies that it has been keeping the market informed about the actions on resilience adopted due to the impacts... Continue Reading →
May 07, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that the rating agency Fitch Ratings revised today the company's international long-term ratings outlook from stable to negative, and maintained the ratings of Petrobras at "BB-". This week the agency revised the sovereign rating outlook due to uncertainty over the duration and intensity of the Covid-19... Continue Reading →
May 7, 2020 Petrobras continues its effort to protect its employees. The company has already carried out about 6,300 tests for Covid-19 among its employees, service providers and contact persons of suspected cases. Of this total, about 4 thousand were rapid tests, which detect antibodies and have been used, for example, to screen professionals before... Continue Reading →
May 7, 2020 President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree that qualifies a pilot project for evaluations in the country on the exploration of unconventional oil and gas (shale) for the Federal Government's Investment Partnership Program (PPI). The inclusion of the initiative in the PPI aims to “support environmental licensing and other measures necessary for the... Continue Reading →
Rio de Janeiro, May 6, 2020 - Petro Rio S.A. (“Company” or “PetroRio”) (B3: PRIO3), following best practices in corporate governance and transparency, informs its preliminary and non-audited Operational Data for the month of April. 1. January figures account for a 70% stake in the Frade Field. The acquisition of the remaining 30% stake – announced... Continue Reading →
May 7, 2020 Petrobras should start in June a new exploratory campaign in the Campos Basin, in the CM-657 block, acquired in the 15th ANP Concession Round, in 2018. Although the company is postponing some works and cutting investments due to the Covid-19 crisis and the price of oil, the oil company is prepared to... Continue Reading →
Equinor has suspended its 2020 oil and gas output guidance amid government-imposed curtailments and a glut of supply, and could take further action to scale back activity this year, the Norwegian energy firm said on Thursday. With operations from the North Sea to Africa, the Americas and Asia, Equinor had expected 7% output growth this... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s central bank slashed interest rates more than expected on Wednesday, cutting its benchmark Selic rate by 75 basis points to a record-low 3.00% and previewing another cut as it battles an economic crisis fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. It was Brazil’s biggest rate cut since October 2017 and, recognizing that the downturn will be... Continue Reading →
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