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January 29, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras discloses that its proved oil, condensate and natural gas reserves according to SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) regulation were estimated at 9.590 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), as of December 31, 2019, as displayed in Table 1. Continue reading
January 29, 2020 The federal government made a change to the re-bidding of the surplus of the Transfer of Rights assignment of Sépia and Atapu, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, and Pre-Salt Petroleum (PPSA) will be responsible for negotiating and defining with Petrobras the value of the indemnity that will be charged to possible partners... Continue Reading →
Jan 29, 2020 A new chapter in the history of Petrobras' problems with flexible risers. A line connected to the FPSO Cidade de Angra dos Reis, located in the Lula field, broke on the 21st. According to Petrobrás, there was no damage to the environment and it was also not necessary to stop production. The... Continue Reading →
Jan 29, 2020 Petrobras hired seven investment banks to sell a stake in BR Distribuidora, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The offer will be coordinated by the investment banking units of Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase & Co, Goldman Sachs Group, Itaú Unibanco Holding, XP, Bank of America and Citgroup, the... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 But they were less than a third of the volume of oil consumed in 2019! The world still celebrates the modest increase in discoveries of oil resources in 2019, after a period of several years of discoveries far below those of the years until 2015 (Rystad Energy, 2020). Still, even in... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 For the first time, an FPSO installed in the Lula field was the one that produced the most in the country The FPSO P-69 extracted 183,767 thousand boed in November 2019, occupying, for the first time, the top of the list of FPSOs with the highest production in the country, according to... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 Report by consultancy Wood Mackenzie highlights that Petrobras and Shell found evidence of oil and gas in their wells, but nothing economically attractive for now Since 2017, oil companies have paid R$ 42 billion for exploration areas in the Brazilian pre-salt layer, one of the regions most coveted by multinationals. Despite this,... Continue Reading →
JAN 27, 2020 After being declared commercial by Equinor, in December last year, the Carcará area will gain a new name, well befitting the Norwegian culture. The asset will be renamed Bacalhau and the choice is interesting and symbolic because it is the first time, in the last 50 years, that a field in the... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s government is changing the rules to give foreign companies an equal shot at winning government contracts, the Economy Ministry said on Monday. Economy Minister Paulo Guedes has pledged to fight corruption and open up one of the world’s most protected countries to foreign business and the overseas investment necessary to modernize Brazil’s crumbling infrastructure.... Continue Reading →
Jan 24, 2020 The fleet of maritime support in Brazilian waters, at the end of December, totaled 366 vessels, being 324 of Brazilian flag and 42 of foreign flags. 89% of the offshore support fleet in Brazil is made up of Brazilian flag boats and 11% of foreign flags. Not all units are in operation,... Continue Reading →
