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Tobias Cepelowicz and Roberto Jessourun are no longer heading the Ventura group (Petroserv). After almost five decades, the command of the rig and FPSOs company was transferred to Nelson Oliveira, executive of Geribá Investimentos, in the midst of a broad internal restructuring process, whose focus is to remedy the group's financial situation. Source: PetroleoHoje
(Bloomberg) --Measures taken by Transocean to stave off a bankruptcy filing could be exactly what ends up sending the offshore drilling company into Chapter 11 alongside some of its biggest peers. The world’s largest owner of deep-water oil rigs recently engineered a bond swap to trim some of its $9 billion debt load and ease... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras reports that it will release its quarterly production and sales report on October 20th, 2020 and its financial performance report on October 28th, 2020, after the markets close. On October 29th, 2020 two webcasts will be held, the first in Portuguese and the second in English, to present the company's... Continue Reading →
UK oil and gas company Premier Oil has reached an agreement with Harbour’s UK operating company Chrysaor regarding a proposed all-share merger between Premier and Chrysaor and the reorganisation of Premier’s existing debt and cross-currency swaps. According to Premier’s statement on Tuesday, the deal will create the largest independent oil and gas company listed on... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil said on Monday it plans to reduce its European workforce by up to 1,600 across the company's affiliates by the end of 2021 as part of its global review. Exxon said country-specific cuts will depend on the oil major's local business footprint and market conditions, after the COVID-19 pandemic hammered... Continue Reading →
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s government presented an almost $14 billion infrastructure investment plan on Monday as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador seeks to repair rocky relations with business leaders and lift the struggling economy. The package, mostly privately financed, is the first clear sign of corporate bosses’ readiness to invest under Lopez Obrador since... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Golar Power said on Friday that it rejects the process that culminated in its disqualification by Petrobras of a bid to lease a regasification terminal for the state-owned company in Bahia, and stressed that it will file an appeal to return participate in the dispute. If this is not enough, the company also... Continue Reading →
Petrobras readies new hires involving the next Petrobras platforms for the Brazilian pre-salt. In particular, the contracts related to the three future units that will be installed in the Búzios field (P-78, P-79 and FPSO Almirante Tamandaré), in the Santos Basin. In the next six months, the state company plans to launch tenders for the... Continue Reading →
Noble Energy shareholders on Friday approved a deal to sell the oil and gas producer to Chevron Corp, making Chevron the No. 2 U.S. shale oil producer and giving it international natural gas reserves close to growing markets. The all-stock deal values Noble Energy at around $4.1 billion, excluding $8 billion in debt, and the vote cements the first... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, further to the notice published on December 18, 2018, hereby announces that, after adjustments made to the regulations of the Petros 3 Plan (PP3), its Board of Directors resolved to submit the new plan proposal for analysis of the Secretariat for Coordination and Governance of State-Owned Companies (SEST) and the National... Continue Reading →
