(Reuters) - Spanish oil company Repsol (REP.MC), opens new tab has agreed to sell oil and gas production assets in Colombia to Geopark (GPRK.N), opens new tab for $530 million, the two companies said on Friday. The assets include Repsol's oil extraction operation in central Colombia and a 25% stake in SierraCol Energia Arauca, the Spanish company said in... Continue Reading →
Petrobras announces teaser for transfer of minority stake in the Tartaruga Field in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that it has started the teaser stage for the transfer of its 25% minority stake in the Tartaruga Field, located in the town of Pirambu-SE, in shallow waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, operated by SPE Tiêta (Petrorecôncavo). The teaser, which contains the main information about the opportunity and the... Continue Reading →
Exclusive: Brazil’s government and banks in talks to take Novonor’s Braskem stake, sources say
(Reuters) - Brazil's government and several of its largest commercial banks are working on a plan to speed the divestment of engineering group Novonor's majority stake in Braskem, Latin America's largest petrochemical company, according to six people familiar with the talks. Novonor, which changed its name from Odebrecht after a major graft scandal nearly a decade... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies Grows Its Orange Basin Appetite
(Reuters) TotalEnergies is seeking environmental authorization to drill up to seven exploration wells in the southern part of its Deep Water Orange Basin (DWOB) block off the west coast of South Africa, documents from environmental consultants SLR showed on Tuesday. Oil companies including Shell are looking towards South Africa's west coast, close to the border... Continue Reading →
Peru’s state oil firm could open to private investors in 2025, chairman says
(Reuters) - Peru's indebted state-run oil firm PetroPeru could consider offering a minority stake to private investors in the second half of 2025, when the company hopes to emerge from a crisis and post profits, Chairman Alejandro Narvaez told Reuters on Wednesday. At an interview in his office in Lima, Narvaez said the offering would only start... Continue Reading →
Swiss asset manager EIP lifts stake in Eni’s Plenitude to 10%
(Reuters) - Swiss asset manager Energy Infrastructure Partners (EIP) will raise its stake in Eni's Plenitude unit to 10%, in a deal that values the group's retail and renewable business at more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) including debt. The Italian energy group said in a statement on Monday that EIP had agreed to subscribe... Continue Reading →
First Installation Campaign at 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project Completed
(offshorewind.biz) Dominion Energy revealed that 78 monopile foundations and four offshore substations were installed at the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project in the US during the first installation season. Dominion Energy said that it achieved its initial goal of installing at least 70 monopiles into the seafloor 27 miles off the coast... Continue Reading →
Chevron beats quarterly profit expectations on higher oil output
(Reuters) - Chevron Corp beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Friday, helped by higher oil and gas output, but its earnings fell from a year ago. The U.S. company, whose proposed $53-billion takeover of Hess has been delayed due to a challenge by rivals Exxon and CNOOC Ltd , reported an adjusted profit of $4.53 billion, compared to... Continue Reading →
Exxon Mobil to sell its Vaca Muerta assets in Argentina to Pluspetrol
(Reuters) - U.S. energy giant Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), opens new tab agreed on the terms and conditions to sell its oil and gas assets in Argentina's Vaca Muerta formation to Pluspetrol, a source at Exxon Mobil said on Wednesday. Exxon will sell five blocks in Argentina's western Neuquen province, home to Vaca Muerta, and its stake in... Continue Reading →
BP’s Profit Drops 30% to Almost Four-Year Low
(Reuters) BP on Tuesday reported a 30% drop in third quarter profit to $2.3 billion, the lowest in almost four years, weighed down by weaker refining margins and oil trading results. The drop in profit from a year earlier was, however, smaller than expected. It comes amid a slowdown in global economic activity and oil... Continue Reading →