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April 20, 2020 Petro Rio S.A. (“Company” or “PetroRio”) (B3: PRIO3), in compliance with article 157 of Law 6404/1976, CVM instruction 358/2002, and article 26 of the Novo Mercado Regulation, announces to its shareholders and the market the election, at its Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, of four new members of the Board of Directors (“Board”). In... Continue Reading →
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 March 31, 2020 (“1Q2020”). All figures are expressed in US Dollars and... Continue Reading →
Tokyo, April 21, 2020 MODEC, Inc. ("MODEC") is pleased to announce that a US$ 1.1 billion project bond, issued by an affiliate of MODEC in August 2019, has been awarded "Marine Money Offshore Deal of the Year 2019" in the Innovation category. This issuance by MV24 Capital B.V., an affiliate of MODEC, was for the... Continue Reading →
April 20, 2020 Shell starts, by the end of April, drilling its first well on Saturno, a block acquired in the 5th Production Sharing Round, in 2018. The information was confirmed by the company to PetróleoHoje. According to the activity characterization form, submitted to Ibama in 2018, the active drilling project foresees up to five... Continue Reading →
Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras plans to restart operations in the coming days at two ships used in offshore oil production that suffered coronavirus outbreaks, an executive told journalists during a call on Friday. Petrobras Exploration and Production Director Carlos Alberto de Oliveira said operations at the Cidade de Santos should restart over the weekend,... Continue Reading →
Brazil's oil industry has requested 29 oilfields be mothballed so far, including 16 offshore and 13 onshore, with a total production of 65,000 barrels per day, as the sector struggles with lower demand amid the coronavirus outbreak, local regulator ANP said. Twenty of the oilfields expected to be mothballed are in the process of being... Continue Reading →
Apr 20, 2020 Petrobras has adopted emergency and temporary measures that have as a priority to preserve jobs and the company's sustainability in what is the worst crisis in the oil industry in a hundred years. There have not been and will not be dismissals of Petrobras employees. The measures to temporarily reduce personnel expenses... Continue Reading →
Apr 17, 2020 Times of crisis in the industry are forcing Petrobras to reassess contracts with its suppliers. But the president of the state-owned company, Roberto Castello Branco, guaranteed on Friday (17) that he will not make renegotiations with small companies, to maintain the integrity of the national supply chain. In the executive's assessment, this... Continue Reading →
Apr 17, 2020 The director of exploration and production at Petrobras, Carlos Alberto Pereira de Oliveira, declared that the exploration of the pre-salt is viable even in the face of the current scenario of lower prices. The statement was made today (17), in an online press conference. "We have a very robust portfolio, particularly in... Continue Reading →
April 17, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 02/03/2020, announces that it has started the binding phase referring to the sale of its entire stake at the Papa-terra field, located in deepwater in the Campos Basin. Qualified parties for this phase will receive a process letter with... Continue Reading →
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