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RIO DE JANIERO and MEXICO CITY (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s moratorium on auctioning off its oil riches to foreign producers is giving a leg up to nearby rivals Brazil and Guyana. Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has halted new bid rounds, and state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos has disappointed potential partners by eschewing deep-water blocks in favor... Continue Reading →
July 9, 2019 Wintershall Dea is licensing an exploratory well in the POT-M-857 block area, in deep waters of the Potiguar Basin, in Rio Grande do Norte. The company informed Ibama that it intends to use a drillship with dynamic positioning to carry out the campaign, which will use the Port of Natal as a... Continue Reading →
July 9, 2019 The board of Petrobras will appreciate, this week, the contracting of six drilling rigs for its portfolio with capacity for operation in 2 thousand m of water depth. The new charters, which include three Constellation equipment (Alpha Star, Gold Star and Amaralina Star), one from Ocyan (Norbe VI) and two from Petroserv... Continue Reading →
July 8, 2019 Having worked meticulously with Petrobras for years, suppliers in Norway and their hub of sub-suppliers are again gaining large bulk orders from Brazil, as the country’s unexplored reserves compel the national oil company to buy - and borrow - Norwegian. About 15 years after Norwegian suppliers installed Brazilian deepwater research facilities and... Continue Reading →
July 8, 2019 Norwegian oil company Equinor and China's Sinochem have received prior approval from IBAMA for Phase 2 of the expansion of the Peregrino oilfield production system in the Campos basin, Rio de Janeiro state, the agency said on Friday. The project provides for the installation of a third fixed platform for drilling new... Continue Reading →
July 8, 2019 Petrobras will launch notices for the charter of Mero 3, Itapu and Sergipe-Alagoas FPSOs by the end of the year, leaving the Mero 4 process to begin in 2020. The bidding schedule for the new units was confirmed to BE Petroleo by a source of the oil company. The first will be... Continue Reading →
July 6, 2019 Chevron has begun licensing an exploratory well for the S-M-764 block area in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The company indicated to IBAMA that, depending on the result of the first well, it can drill a second well in the area, bought in the 15th round of the ANP, held in the past.... Continue Reading →
July 5, 2019 Petrobras has launched a tender to contract high-resolution geophysical data acquisition and processing services in the Campos, Santos and Espírito Santo basins. The scope is divided into two programs. One of them involves the monitoring of the Mexilhão and Rota 3 pipelines, in the Santos Basin; Camarupim, in Espírito Santo; and Route... Continue Reading →
July 5, 2019 ExxonMobil is claiming that the signing bonus for the surplus auction of the Transfer of Rights areas will be paid twice, a first installment with the signature of the production sharing contract, which is scheduled for March next year, and another in the signature of the co-participation contracts, scheduled for 2021. The... Continue Reading →
June 5, 2019 Petrobras signs until the end of this month the charter agreement for the Laguna Star drillship, which will operate exclusively for the BM-S-11 project in the Santos Basin cluster. The directors of Shell and Petrogal - partners of the Brazilian oil company in the BM-S-11 consortium - have approved the contracting of... Continue Reading →
