Jul 16, 2020 Wintershall DEA started the licensing process for an exploratory well in the area of block CE-M-601, in deep waters of the Ceará Basin. The vertical well will be drilled in a 2000 m water depth slide and the company expects to find oil, with an average estimate of 24º API. The CE-M-601... Continue Reading →
Westwood Expects 40 FPSOs to be Ordered in 2020-2024 Period
Energy industry analysts seem to agree that the future is bright, or at least brighter, when it comes to the contracting activity for the floating production systems, from 2021 onwards after COVID-19 and low oil prices hit the market in 2020. Norway's Rystad earlier this week said that, apart from the Sangomar FPSO ordered by... Continue Reading →
Ocean Infinity Completes Guyana Survey for ExxonMobil
Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity has completed its survey project for ExxonMobil, within the enormous Stabroek block offshore Guyana where the oil giant has over the recent few years discovered more than 8 billion barrels of oil. The project, announced in February, involved acquiring high-resolution geophysical and geotechnical data through the simultaneous deployment of multiple Autonomous... Continue Reading →
GeoPark Announces Second Quarter 2020 Operational Update
July 15, 2020 BOGOTA, Colombia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GeoPark Limited (“GeoPark” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GPRK), a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador, today announced its operational update for the three-month period ended June 30, 2020 (“2Q2020”). All figures are... Continue Reading →
Petrobras concludes the sale of two onshore fields to Central Resources
July 15, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 09/30/2019, informs that it has finalized today the sale of its entire participation in two onshore production fields (Ponta do Mel and Redonda), located in the Potiguar Basin, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, to Central Resources do... Continue Reading →
Petrobras concludes the sale of shallow water fields to Trident
July 15, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 07/24/2019, reports that it has today completed the sale of its entire stake in the ten fields that comprise the Pampo and Enchova Clusters, located in shallow water in the Campos Basin in the state of Rio de Janeiro, to... Continue Reading →
Petrobras onshore fields divestments arouse the interest of 40 small and medium-sized companies
Jul 14, 2020 Altogether, 40 small and medium-sized companies, 30 of which are Brazilian, are in the dispute to buy onshore mature oil fields from Petrobras, reveals Roberto Ardenghy, director of Institutional Relations at the state-owned company. With the pandemic, the company postponed for 12 months the conclusion of the sale of its 157 onshore... Continue Reading →
Perenco plans an FSO for the Polo Nordeste
Jul 14, 2020 Perenco is finalizing the development plan for the Polo Nordeste, a complex that integrates the Pargo, Carapeba and Vermelho fields, in shallow waters of the Campos basin. The document will be forwarded to the ANP for evaluation until Friday (17 ), requesting the extension of the concession period for the three assets... Continue Reading →
Aker BP Beats Q2 Forecast on Record Output, Keeps Guidance
Norwegian oil firm Aker BP on Tuesday beat second-quarter pretax profit expectations helped by record output and a partial reversal of impairments from the previous quarter as oil prices rose. Pretax profit fell to $151 million from $249 million a year earlier but beat a forecast of $91.3 million in a Refinitiv poll of analysts,... Continue Reading →
Between January and May 2020, the Union’s share of oil in the pre-salt production sharing contracts reaches 1.5 million barrels
Jul 13, 2020 The Union's share of oil in the three contracts that are under production sharing regime totaled 1.5 million barrels from January to May this year, an increase of 50% compared to the same period in 2019. The data is from the Monthly Bulletin of Production Sharing Contracts produced by Pre-Sal Petróleo (PPSA),... Continue Reading →