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(Reuters) Oil and gas producer Wintershall Dea said on Tuesday that its most closely watched measure of earnings more than doubled in the third quarter of 2022 and that it would seek to strengthen business in locations outside Russia. Wintershall Dea was looking into whether the international business it is pursuing could be legally separated... Continue Reading →
(OED)German oil and gas company Wintershall Dea has agreed to acquire a 37% non-operated participating interest in the Hokchi Block, offshore Mexico, from Hokchi Energy, a subsidiary of Pan American Energy. Wintershall Dea will have an option to increase its stake in the offshore block to 40% at a later stage. Through this acquisition, Wintershall... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling company Borr Drilling said Thursday that its joint venture company in Mexico (Perfomex) had entered into new contracts for the company's five premium jack-up rigs. The rigs in question are the "Galar", "Gersemi", "Grid", "Njord" and "Odin" and the contracts are with OPEX Perforadora S.A. de C.V. and Perforadora Profesional Akal I S.A.... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazil's economy is undergoing a soft landing as consumers tighten their purse strings to cope with high indebtedness on post-pandemic purchases and increasing financial costs, a Reuters poll of economists showed. Economic activity got a boost this year from President Jair Bolsonaro's extra public spending measures aimed at improving his reelection chances before... Continue Reading →
(OM) TC Energy has contracted Allseas to install a 36-inch offshore pipeline delivering gas to southeast Mexico. The Southeast Gateway line will run about 700 km south along the coast from Tuxpan connecting the ports of Coatzacoalcos and Dos Bocas. This is also the first major natural gas infrastructure project commissioned by the alliance between TC Energy... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexico's environmental regulator has no records of state oil company Pemex reporting a methane leak last December at the country's top oil field, according to the regulator's response to a freedom of information request filed by Reuters. "There are no records" of "a possible incident at the asset Ku-Maloob-Zaap in December 2021," regulator... Continue Reading →
Allseas has won a contract with TC Energy (TCE) to install the offshore stretch of the Southeast Gateway Pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. The 700-kilometer natural gas pipeline will run south along the coast from Tuxpan through the Gulf of Mexico to Coatzacoalcos and Dos Bocas. Allseas’ scope covers engineering and construction, as well... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered to help with a key fuel in high demand across Europe, the German president told reporters in the Mexican capital on Tuesday, amid a supply squeeze following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's head of state, made the comments following a meeting with Lopez... Continue Reading →
Germany-based EUROPIPE has received an order from the North American TC Energy (TCE) to supply the pipe for the Southeast Gateway Pipeline project in the Gulf of Mexico. TCE is building the $4.5 billion offshore gas pipeline in partnership with the Mexican state-owned power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) to secure the power supply... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Scientists who detected a massive methane leak at an offshore platform run by Mexico's Pemex said Tuesday there was "no way" they had made a mistake, roundly rebutting claims by the state oil company that the emissions were smaller and less polluting. Pemex, which is under increasing international pressure over its environmental record, last... Continue Reading →
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