(Reuters) - Geneva-based energy trader Gunvor Group has widened its executive committee to 14 people including its chief executive, reflecting the growing importance of gas trading for the firm, the company’s website showed on Thursday. The new members are Benoit Roulon, the new global head of crude oil trading; Richard Brockmeyer, head of North American... Continue Reading →
Ministry of Mines and Energy classifies the project for the new FPSO in the Atlanta field as a priority
(PN) The Ministry of Mines and Energy gave the seal of “priority” to the project to implement the new FPSO in Enauta's Atlanta field, located in the Santos Basin. As a reminder, the new platform will be used in the field's definitive production system. The FPSO OSX-2 (renamed FPSO Atlanta), which will be used in... Continue Reading →
Angola: Chevron Extends Jack-up Drilling Rig Contract
(OE) Oslo-listed offshore drilling company Shelf Drilling has secured a contract extension for its Shelf Drilling Tenacious jack-up rig. The contract is in direct continuation of its current contract for drilling operations offshore Angola until November 2023. The contract includes an additional one-year option. According to Shelf Drilling's fleet status report, the BMC Pacific 375... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on the method of shareholder remuneration distribution
– Petróleo Brasileiro S.A – Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on November 03, 2022, informs that the distribution of the second installment of the remuneration to shareholders, approved by the Board of Directors on that date, to be paid on January 19, 2022, in the amount of R$ 1.67445, will be paid as... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on real state receivables certificates
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 10/31/2022, informs that it concluded the bookbuilding procedure for the issue of real estate receivables certificates (CRI), in up to 3 (three) series, as part of the 1st (first), 2nd (second) and 3rd (third) series of the 67th (sixty-seventh) issue of Opea Securitizadora... Continue Reading →
Seadrill makes a comeback on Oslo Stock Exchange
After months of absence, Seadrill, an offshore drilling contractor, has returned to the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE). Back in February 2021, Seadrill filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, its second in about four years. It took about a year of restructuring for Seadrill to emerge from bankruptcy. The relisting updates came about two months after this. Come... Continue Reading →
Argentina cenbank debt poses ‘systemic risk’ to financial sector, Moody’s says
(Reuters) - Argentina's rising central bank debt poses a risk to the country's monetary stability, ratings agency Moody's said on Wednesday, adding it could further stoke inflation and aggravate any exchange rate shock if savers flee from the local peso currency. In that scenario, Moody's warned, authorities could even freeze peso deposits, an extreme measure... Continue Reading →
Siemens Energy Gets Boost from Record Orders
(Reuters) Siemens Energy on Wednesday reported a record order backlog of nearly 100 billion euros ($104 billion), boosting its shares and overshadowing a widening net loss blamed on its struggling wind turbine division, Siemens Gamesa. Siemens Energy - which provides services and equipment to the power sector, such as gas and wind turbines - said... Continue Reading →
Saipem Wins Offshore Drilling Contracts Worth $800M
Italian energy industry services firm Saipem said Wednesday it had secured new offshore drilling contracts, three in the Middle East and two in West Africa, worth around $800 million in total. In the Middle East, two new contracts have been awarded for two high-specification jack-up drilling units, the Perro Negro 12 and Perro Negro 13,... Continue Reading →
Russia’s Rosneft to pay $3.6 bln in first nine-month dividend
(Reuters) - Russian state energy company Rosneft (ROSN.MM) said on Monday it plans to pay a dividend on its nine-month results, the first such payment in its history, which is expected to total 216 billion roubles ($3.6 billion) and to boost the nation's budget. The importance of dividends by state companies, including Rosneft and Gazprom (GAZP.MM), as a... Continue Reading →