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(Reuters) - Shares in Siemens Gamesa (SGREN.MC) fell more than 18% on Thursday after the wind turbine maker's second profit warning in less than three months due to spiralling raw materials prices and the cost of delivering its new onshore platform. The warning of a possible loss this year had a knock-on effect on parent Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE),... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil firm PetroRio said Wednesday it had completed the tieback between the Polvo and Tubarão Martelo offshore fields, a move that will slash its operational costs as there would no longer be a need for a chartered FPSO. According to PetroRio, the tieback project between the Polvo-A Platform and the Bravo FPSO was completed... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) After extending the charter period for the Petrobras 10.000 drillship, Petrobras extended the contract for the drillship Etesco Takatsugu J with Etesco for another three years. The deadline, which would expire in April 2022, was extended until April 2025. The rig's daily rate during this extension period will be reduced to around US$ 230,000.... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on 04/17/2020 and 11/24/2020, informs that it has signed with the company 3R Petroleum Offshore S.A. (3R Offshore) a contract for the sale of the totality of its participation in the Papa-Terra production field, located in the Campos Basin. The amount of the sale... Continue Reading →
Determined to increase its production capacity of Diesel S-10 in the coming years, Petrobras announced new investments in the Duque de Caxias (Reduc) and Henrique Lage (Revap) Refineries. Previously, the company had already announced that it would expand another of its plants, the Paulínia Refinery (Replan). The state-owned company claims that the refining segment will... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) will boost returns to shareholders via share buybacks or dividends earlier than expected after a sharp rise in oil and gas prices helped it reduce debt, the Anglo-Dutch energy firm said on Wednesday. Shell will increase its distribution to shareholders to 20% to 30% of cash flow from operations beginning in... Continue Reading →
Mexico chose state-owned Pemex to run a major shared oil find over the private consortium led by a U.S. oil company that first discovered it, in the latest win for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's nationalistic energy policies. The disputed deposit, believed to hold some 700 million barrels of oil, is thought to straddle two... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on June 30, 2021, informs that it signed today with the company Petromais Global Exploração e Produção S.A. (Petro+) the agreement for the sale of the totality of its stake in a set of seven onshore and shallow water concessions denominated Alagoas Cluster, located... Continue Reading →
Russian oil company Lukoil has agreed to acquire a 50% operator stake in the Area 4 project offshore Mexico. The transaction value is $435 million-plus expenditures incurred in 2021 as of the transaction completion date. The completion of the transaction is subject to certain conditions, including approval by the Mexican authorities. The project includes two... Continue Reading →
(TNPetroleo) Eneva signs concession contracts for the assets acquired by the Company in the second cycle of the Permanent Offer of the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), held on December 4, 2020, which include three onshore exploratory blocks in the Amazon Basin, the Juruá area in the Solimões Basin and 70%... Continue Reading →
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