April 22, 2020 On April 20th, the ANP published, in a special edition of the Federal Official Gazette, ANP Resolutions 815/2020 and 816/2020. They establish new procedures to be adopted by companies operating in oil and natural gas exploration and production activities while the temporary measures to deal with the public health emergency resulting from... Continue Reading →
Mexico to Shut Down Wells a Week After Refusing Deep OPEC+ Cuts
With crude prices collapsing, Mexico’s president says his country will shut down new wells in a move that comes just over a week after he almost wrecked a global oil deal by refusing to make deep output cuts. The country invested last year in drilling new wells, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said during his daily... Continue Reading →
PetroRio – CHANGES IN MANAGEMENT
April 20, 2020 Petro Rio S.A. (“Company” or “PetroRio”) (B3: PRIO3), in compliance with article 157 of Law 6404/1976, CVM instruction 358/2002, and article 26 of the Novo Mercado Regulation, announces to its shareholders and the market the election, at its Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, of four new members of the Board of Directors (“Board”). In... Continue Reading →
GeoPark Announces First Quarter 2020 Operational Update
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 March 31, 2020 (“1Q2020”). All figures are expressed in US Dollars and... Continue Reading →
MODEC awarded the Marine Money Offshore Deal of the Year 2019
Tokyo, April 21, 2020 MODEC, Inc. ("MODEC") is pleased to announce that a US$ 1.1 billion project bond, issued by an affiliate of MODEC in August 2019, has been awarded "Marine Money Offshore Deal of the Year 2019" in the Innovation category. This issuance by MV24 Capital B.V., an affiliate of MODEC, was for the... Continue Reading →
High impact exploration in 2020 down but not out, Westwood says
Exploration plans are being redrawn and the well count is expected to drop by as much as 35 per cent on 2019 levels due to the “double whammy” of the oil price collapse and COVID-19 pandemic, according to market research provider Westwood Global Energy Group. At the start of the year, the number of high-impact... Continue Reading →
Oil Traders Vie for Guyana Marketing Deal Despite Price Tumble
Guyana has attracted interest from several oil trading companies for a contract to serve as the marketing agent for the government's share of the country's crude, despite a plunge in global prices, four people familiar with the matter said. Oil major Royal Dutch Shell and commodities traders Gunvor and Mercuria were among the companies that... Continue Reading →
Shell drills on Saturno in April
April 20, 2020 Shell starts, by the end of April, drilling its first well on Saturno, a block acquired in the 5th Production Sharing Round, in 2018. The information was confirmed by the company to PetróleoHoje. According to the activity characterization form, submitted to Ibama in 2018, the active drilling project foresees up to five... Continue Reading →
Oil Firms Ask Brazil’s Regulator to Mothball 29 Fields
Brazil's oil industry has requested 29 oilfields be mothballed so far, including 16 offshore and 13 onshore, with a total production of 65,000 barrels per day, as the sector struggles with lower demand amid the coronavirus outbreak, local regulator ANP said. Twenty of the oilfields expected to be mothballed are in the process of being... Continue Reading →
Petrobras starts binding phase on E&P assets – Papa-terra
April 17, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 02/03/2020, announces that it has started the binding phase referring to the sale of its entire stake at the Papa-terra field, located in deepwater in the Campos Basin. Qualified parties for this phase will receive a process letter with... Continue Reading →