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(Reuters) - Brazil's direct sales of crude will more than double this year and rise sharply this decade, as oil majors deliver more of their output to the government under production sharing agreements, according to a state official. Government-owned volumes, until now nearly irrelevant, are ramping up and will reach 1.127 million barrels per day... Continue Reading →
Petro Rio S.A. (“Company” or “PetroRio”) (B3: PRIO3) announces its 1Q22 earnings. HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE PERIOD Message from the Management "2022 started with several developments that affected Brent prices, including the decrease in severity of COVID-19, an excellent reason to celebrate; and the regrettable war in Ukraine. We have seen oil prices rise sharply, with... Continue Reading →
In March, Brazil produced 2.981 MMbbl/d (millions of barrels per day) of oil, an increase of 2.2% compared to the previous month and 4.8% compared to March 2021. A further 134 MMm3/d (millions of cubic meters daily) of natural gas, an increase of 0.9% compared to February and 6.6% compared to the same month of... Continue Reading →
Petrobras will invest US$ 16 billion in the Campos Basin renovation plan, with plans to install three new platforms and connect more than 100 wells in the area over the next five years. With more than 40 years of history and two awards received by the Offshore Technology Conferece (OTC) for technological advances in the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazil's government is trying to add a 12th block to an auction of oil exploration areas expected later this year, an Energy Ministry official said on Tuesday at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. The Ametista block is located at the South border of the region known as the pre-salt and has... Continue Reading →
(WO) Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda., a subsidiary of Shell plc, announced the start of production of the FPSO Guanabara in the Mero field, offshore Santos Basin in Brazil. The FPSO Guanabara, which while under construction was also known as Mero-1, has an installed capacity of 12 million cubic meters of natural gas and 180,000 barrels... Continue Reading →
Oilfield services giant TechnipFMC has secured an additional contract and received notice to proceed from ExxonMobil for its Yellowtail development in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The newly announced, "significant" flexibles contract covers six risers that are qualified for high pressure and high temperature. For TechnipFMC, a “significant” contract is between $75 million and $250... Continue Reading →
Petrobras has just issued a tender to contract up to eight ultra-deepwater rigs for drilling operations offshore Brazil, according to Esgian. The consulting firm reports that the tender is divided into three lots. Lot 1 is for up to two high-spec rigs with drilling capabilities in water depths up to 3,000m (~10,000ft). Lot 2 is... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC has signed a frame agreement with TotalEnergies for the delivery of subsea production systems offshore Angola. Under the agreement, TechnipFMC is set to deliver its Subsea 2.0 production systems for brownfield developments in Block 17 in Angola. “Subsea 2.0 products use standardized components that are pre-engineered and qualified, which allows equipment to be rapidly... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that, on April 30, 2022, it started producing oil and natural gas through FPSO Guanabara, the first definitive production system installed in the Mero field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The platform, an FPSO (floating unit for the production, storage, and transfer of oil and gas) type, is capable... Continue Reading →
