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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 03/01/2021, informs that it received last week the second, and last, installment, in the amount of US$ 59.4 million, of the leniency agreement entered into by Samsung Heavy Industries. With these values, Petrobras surpasses R$ 5.7 billion in funds recovered through collaboration, leniency... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, as a follow up to the release disclosed on February 8, 2021, informs that the company's Board of Directors, in a meeting held today, approved the sale of the Landulpho Alves Refinery (RLAM) and its associated logistics assets, in Bahia, to Mubadala Capital for US$ 1.65 billion. The signing of... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, regarding the pieces of news published in the media, clarifies about the sale process of Landulpho Alves Refinery (RLAM) and its associated logistics assets. In all asset sale processes, Petrobras establishes a value range that guides the transaction and considers the technical and productivity characteristics and the asset's potential to... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling has received court approval for a previously proposed deal which entails Vantage managing some of the rigs owned by Seadrill Partners. Vantage said Friday it had has entered into a Framework Agreement and related Management and Marketing Agreements with Seadrill Partners LLC (“Seadrill Partners”) under which Vantage’s subsidiaries will provide operating, management... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexico is looking to renegotiate some of its hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of contracts with Vitol SA after the global energy trader acknowledged paying kickbacks to win business with state oil company Pemex, Reuters has learned. The dispute in Mexico, the world’s fourth-largest importer of refined oil products, is part of the... Continue Reading →
The board of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) approved phase 1 of the Development Plan (PD) of the shared deposit of the Bacalhau and Bacalhau Norte fields, in the Santos Basin. The operator of the area, the Norwegian Equinor, forecasts about US$ 8.5 billion in investments in this stage of the undertaking, with the expectation... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexico’s government will absorb regular debt payments this year for Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador intensifies his efforts to prop up the heavily-indebted state-run oil company. Those so-called debt amortization payments will total over $6 billion in 2021, Chief Executive Officer Octavio Romero said Thursday at an event in... Continue Reading →
3R Petroleum Oil and Gas recorded a loss of R$ 147.5 million in the fourth quarter of last year. With the result, the company recorded a total net loss of R$ 172.3 million in 2020. With regard to net revenue, the company recorded R$ 85.2 million in the fourth quarter, with a value of R$... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling managed to cut its losses in the last quarter of 2020 when compared to the same period in 2019 despite lower revenues but went from black to the red on a yearly basis. Vantage on Thursday reported a net loss attributable to controlling interest of approximately $44.9 million for the... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) Vitol Group reaped record profits of around $3 billion last year as the world’s largest independent oil trader surfed the dramatic moves in energy markets, according to people familiar with the matter. The results are the latest indication of the bonanza that oil traders enjoyed in 2020, when the commodity plunged amid a Saudi-Russian price war in... Continue Reading →
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