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(Reuters) - Ecuador's state oil company Petroecuador said on Friday that production at five of its blocks was reduced by some 31,000 barrels because of an electrical failure in the country's Amazon region. The failure occurred on Thursday at a substation run by the state electrical company, leaving areas of Sucumbios and Orellana provinces -... Continue Reading →
(OE) By David Linden Head of Energy Transition at Westwood Global Energy Group If we want to reach net zero by 2050, there is an increasingly high risk that some of the oil and gas infrastructure investments (i.e. in platforms, pipelines, processors, storage sites etc) made today will result in stranded assets. In other words,... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) The first oil transfer operation of the FPSO Carioca – the first definitive production system installed in the Sepia field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt – destined oil for the production of oil products at the Henrique Lage Refinery (Revap ) and at the Paulínia Refinery (Replan), in São Paulo. The oil produced in... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) warned on Thursday of a $400 million hit to third-quarter earnings from the damage caused by August's Hurricane Ida. However, in an update ahead of quarterly results this month, the oil major also flagged a boost to cashflows from soaring natural gas and electricity prices. Gas and power prices have been... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - The first stock offering for the divestment of stakes by shareholders in Braskem should take place in the fourth quarter and could reach 9 billion reais, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Novonor (formerly Odebrecht), creditor banks and Petrobras are discussing a plan to sell the company in several equity... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 01/19/2021, informs that it has finalized without success the negotiations with Ultrapar Participações S.A. (Ultrapar) for the sale of Alberto Pasqualini Refinery (REFAP), in Rio Grande do Sul. Despite the efforts made by both companies in this process, certain critical conditions were not... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - A global drive towards electrification of road transport to reduce carbon emissions may cut demand for the world's oil refining capacity by half in 2050, consultancy Rystad Energy says. "Going forward we will be touching by 2050 somewhere very close to 90% of electrification," Mukesh Sahdev, senior vice president and head of downstream... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) The future owner of the Landulpho Alves Refinery (RLAM) will be called Acelen. The new company was created by the Mubadala Capital fund, which signed a refinery acquisition contract with Petrobras in March, and is expected to take over the asset when the purchase process is completed, which is subject to some precedent conditions,... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that the interested parties in the sale process of the Abreu e Lima Refinery (RNEST) formally declined to submit a binding proposal for the purchase of the refinery. Therefore, the Company is carrying out the internal procedures to end the sale process underway and will evaluate its next steps.... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it signed today with the company Ream Participações S.A., a corporate company owned by the partners of Atem's Distribuidora de Petróleo S.A. (Atem), a contract to sell the shares of the company that will own the Isaac Sabbá Refinery (REMAN) and its associated logistics assets, in the state... Continue Reading →
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