Amid the recent recovery in oil prices on the international market, oil companies are slowly beginning to gain confidence to move forward with new projects. In month of June, when the Brent-type barrel surpassed US$ 70 for the first time in two years, Petrobras, the Norwegian company Equinor and the Australian company Karoon have announced... Continue Reading →
Petrobras announces public offering of Petrobras Distribuidora (BR)’s shares
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in continuity with the material facts dated as 8/26/2020 and 6/11/2021, informs its shareholders and the general public that, it filed the registration statement with the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) on the date hereof of the secondary public offering of common shares issued by the Petrobras Distribuidora S.A. (BR) and... Continue Reading →
Wintershall Dea IPO to Be Delayed
Chemicals group BASF put the planned stock market listing of its Wintershall Dea business on hold on Wednesday until further notice, saying the market was underestimating the value of oil and gas companies. BASF and co-owner LetterOne will postpone the Initial Public Offering (IPO), previously slated for the second half of 2021, to a later point in... Continue Reading →
Petrobras concludes the sale of onshore field in Sergipe
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 08/05/2020, informs that it has today finalized the sale of its 50% interest in the Dó-Ré-Mi onshore field, located in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, in the state of Sergipe, to the company Centro-Oeste Óleo e Gás Ltda. After fulfilling the previous conditions, the operation... Continue Reading →
Papa-Terra divestment near to closing
(PetroleoHoje) Six months after the binding date, Petrobras and 3R Petroleum should close, by the end of June, the divestment operation of the Papa-Terra field, located in deep waters in the Campos Basin. The terms of the asset purchase and sale contracts have already been negotiated, depending only on the seller's internal arrangements to conclude.
Petrobras on stake in BR Distribuidora
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on August 26, 2020, informs that it sent today to Petrobras Distribuidora S.A. (BR) a letter requesting cooperation to implement the secondary public offering (follow on) for the sale of its remaining 37.50% interest in the capital stock of that company whose execution will... Continue Reading →
Petrobras clarifies about the sale of stake in Petrobras Distribuidora
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, regarding the pieces of news published in the media concerning the sale of its entire remaining 37.5% stake in the capital of Petrobras Distribuidora S.A. (BR), clarifies that, as disclosed on 08/26/2020, the company's Board of Directors approved, on that date, the mentioned operation, by means of a secondary public... Continue Reading →
Petrobras has Cade’s approval to sell the RLAM refinery to the Mubadala group
Petrobras has the approval of the Brazilian antitrust agency for the sale of its Landulpho Alves (RLAM) refinery, in Bahia, to Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign fund of the Abu Dhabi government. The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) approved the transaction without restrictions, according to a publication in the Federal Official Gazette this Wednesday... Continue Reading →
Government makes key changes to enable sale of the Sépia and Atapu blocks, by Henrique Jäger and João Montenegro
(TNPetroleo) After the unsuccessful attempt to auction off the production surpluses from the Sépia and Atapu pre-salt blocks, on November 6, 2019, the government decided to carry out a broad change in the parameters that guide the supply of these areas. Either directly, through the significant reduction of government participation in the revenue that will... Continue Reading →
Tullow Oil seals Dussafu Marin stake sale to Panoro
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil has completed the sale of its Dussafu Marin permit asset in Gabon to Oslo-listed Panoro Energy. Tullow Oil said on Wednesday that it had already received a payment of $39 million for the Dussafu asset earlier in the day as well as a $5 million contingent consideration relating to... Continue Reading →