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(eixos.com.br) The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) will announce, next week, the first environmental license for an offshore wind project in Brazil. Exios learned that the license will be for a pilot project of the Senai Institute for Innovation in Renewable Energy (ISI-ER), in Rio Grande do Norte. The decision of... Continue Reading →
Reuters) - Exxon Mobil and Chevron on Tuesday took their first steps toward exploring for oil in Brazil's Foz do Amazonas basin, scooping up offshore blocks auctioned by the country in the promising but environmentally sensitive area. The bids came as state-run Petrobras touted signs of breaking a stalemate on licensing in the offshore region near the mouth... Continue Reading →
Petrobras published its Sustainability Report, providing a snapshot of the company's progress in its journey towards the Fair Energy Transition in 2024. The investment of US$16.3 billion in low-carbon projects over the next 5 years, the generation of 315 thousand jobs in the same period and the reduction of 40% in absolute CO2e emissions since... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Finland's Wartsila is betting that a more nimble way to generate power with ethanol will prove viable in Brazil where similar efforts by major firms floundered a decade ago. Wartsila announced a partnership in March with a power plant in the northeast Brazilian city of Recife, where a four-megawatt engine will burn ethanol for 4,000... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) Galileo Energy and Hope Group have received an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) permit from Italy’s Ministry of Environment and Energy Security for the 1.1 GW Barium Bay floating offshore wind project. The joint venture partners said that this is the largest offshore wind farm to have achieved this milestone in Italy and the Mediterranean... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Brazil's Senate has approved legislation to loosen environmental licensing, despite criticism from climate policy groups and figures inside President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government. The bill, which was approved in the Senate by 54 votes to 13 late on Wednesday, would allow projects considered to have a small or mid-sized impact, such as... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Brazilian oil firm Petrobras will have a drill ship ready to make the trip to the northern state of Amapa by the end of the month, three sources close to the matter told Reuters, as the company rushes for a drilling license for the Foz do Amazonas Basin. According to the sources, work to... Continue Reading →
(PN) Petrobras' Director of Exploration and Production, Sylvia dos Anjos, detailed the company's next steps in Brazil and abroad during a press conference. One of the company's focuses continues to be the Aram area, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, where two new drillings are planned, following the second discovery of oil in... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Mexican state energy company Pemex plans to reopen old wells in a bid to squeeze more barrels out of them to boost declining oil production, according to two documents and four sources, as it struggles to reach an ambitious government target. Pemex said in a filing to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) France’s energy giant TotalEnergies is getting ready to embark on drilling activities off the coast of Suriname with a drillship owned by Stena Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor. TotalEnergies has set its cap on drilling the Macaw-1 exploration well in Block 64 by mid-May 2025, according to Suriname’s national oil company (NOC), Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie). This... Continue Reading →
