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(PN) Brazil is expected to receive around R$10 billion in investments this year in oil and gas blocks that are in the exploration phase. The data was presented by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), in the Annual Exploration Report (available on the ANP website). Of this amount, the offshore environment will receive R$9.50 billion, of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Norwegian energy company Equinor has cancelled its offshore-wind projects in Spain and Portugal, in addition to its previously announced exit from Vietnam, and could withdraw from more countries to rein in spending, an executive told Reuters on Wednesday. "We have been actively pursuing early-phase opportunities in a series of markets around the world, in different... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) U.S. offshore engineering and construction player McDermott has been tasked with putting all the pieces in place for the development of a gas project off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, thanks to an engineering, procurement, construction, installation (EPCI), hook-up, and commissioning contract with Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited, a subsidiary of the UK-headquartered... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oilfield services firm Archer has entered into an agreement with Air Drilling Associates to acquire its managed pressure drilling (MPD) subsidiary ADA Argentina. ADA provides MPD services to Archer's largest customers in the Vaca Muerta basin in Argentina. MPD is an adaptive drilling process used to precisely control the annular pressure profile throughout the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Colombia's majority state-owned energy company Ecopetrol said on Friday that it is in talks with U.S. oil major Occidental Petroleum to possibly buy a stake in CrownRock. Ecopetrol, in a statement, did not include additional details and added that a final decision on the size of the stake and the amount it could pay were... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Bolivian state oil firm YPFB will spend around $400 million to drill gas wells and build facilities at a recently discovered natural gas "mega" field, the company said on Thursday. Production at the Mayaya field, estimated to hold 1.7 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of natural gas, should kick off in three to four years, YPFB... Continue Reading →
3R PETROLEUM ÓLEO E GÁS S.A. (“3R” or “Company”) (B3:RRRP3), in accordance with CVM Resolution No. 44, informs its investors and the market in general that has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with PetroReconcavo S.A. (“Petroreconcavo”) to evaluate the sharing of the natural gas flow, compression, measurement and processing infrastructure owned by 3R in... Continue Reading →
(Offshore-energy.biz) Bermuda-headquartered owner and operator of liquefied natural gas (LNG) midstream infrastructure Golar LNG has sealed a deal with Pan American Energy (PAE), a Latin American integrated energy company, for a multi-year use of a floating LNG (FLNG) vessel, which will leverage Argentina’s prolific natural gas resources, positioning the South American country for further LNG... Continue Reading →
(TN) On June 29th and 30th, Transpetro carried out the first oil transfer operation between ships (Ship to Ship) at the Port of Itaqui, in Maranhão. The company was already transshipping diesel and gasoline at the São Luís Terminal. With the operation, the Port of Itaqui returns to handling oil after 40 years, which demonstrates... Continue Reading →
(TN) ANP released today (2/7) the Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin for May 2024, which provides consolidated data on national production. This month, there was an increase in oil and natural gas production, and also in pre-salt production.Total production (oil + natural gas) was 4.234 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d).Regarding... Continue Reading →
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