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(Reuters) BP on Tuesday reported a deeper-than-expected 48% drop in net profit to $1.4 billion on weaker refining and gas trading and announced the departure of its strategy chief. CEO Murray Auchincloss is in under pressure from activist investor Elliott to improve profitability and cut costs. He has announced plans to sell $20 billion of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Portugal's Galp Energia reported a 29% drop in adjusted first-quarter core profit on Monday, hit by falling oil output and a decline in refining margins to less than half the levels booked a year ago. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) fell to 669 million euros, slightly above the average of... Continue Reading →
(OE) MODEC has executed a contract with Sumitomo Heavy Industries for the delivery of Gato do Mato floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for Shell, which will be deployed offshore Brazil. MODEC and Sumitomo Heavy Industries signed a contract for the forward block of MODEC’s new generation hull for the Gato do Mato FPSO,... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) China-based provider of clean energy services Wison New Energies (WNE) has won a detailed feasibility study (DFS) for a newbuild floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility set to work at a block offshore Suriname operated by Malaysia’s energy giant Petronas. The FLNG unit is slated to work at Block 52, located north of the Surinamese... Continue Reading →
BRAVA ENERGIA S.A. (“BRAVA” or “Company”) (B3: BRAV3), in compliance with the provisions of CVM Resolution No. 44 and the Novo Mercado Regulation, and complementing the Material Fact disclosed on January 30, 2024, hereby informs its shareholders and the market in general that, on this date, Mr. Carlos José do Nascimento Travassos has assumed the... Continue Reading →
PRIO S.A. (“Company” or “PRIO”) (B3: PRIO3), following the best corporate governance practices, informs its shareholders and the market in general that, today, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Natural Renewable Resources (“Ibama”) has granted approval for the workover of wells in the Tubarão Martelo field including wells TBMT-10H and TBMT-4H, which had been... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Oil giant Shell will pull out of three offshore gas projects in Colombia's Caribbean, it owns together with Colombia's state-run oil company Ecopetrol, the groups said on Thursday. Shell had acquired a 50% operating stake in Col 5, Purple Angel and Fuerte Sur deepwater blocs in 2020. "They no longer fit our strategic ambitions.... Continue Reading →
Rhino Resources, the operator of the petroleum exploration license (PEL85), and its partners have found oil in the Capricornus 1-X well in Orange Basin, offshore Namibia. The Capricornus 1-X well, spudded on February 17, using Noble Corporation’s Noble Venturer drillship, reached total depth on April 2, successfully penetrating the Lower Cretaceous target. The well found... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Italian energy group Eni on Thursday reported a smaller than expected 11% yearly drop in adjusted net profit for the first quarter. Adjusted net profit came in at 1.41 billion euros ($1.60 billion) between January and March, down from 1.58 billion euros in the first quarter of 2024, but above an analyst consensus of... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Oslo Stock Exchange-listed semi-submersible accommodation vessel owner and operator Prosafe has shared its fleet activity for March. According to Prosafe, its fleet utilization rate for March 2025 was 52%, representing a slight decrease from the 57% rate reported for February. Safe Zephyrus was the busiest, operating at full capacity during March, achieving 100% commercial uptime. The... Continue Reading →
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