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(oilnow.gy) High impact exploration drilling is expected to remain stable in 2025, with 65-75 wells targeted for completion, compared to 69 in 2024. In this regard, South America could see 17 of these wells being drilled, making it the busiest region globally this year. This is according to energy market research and intelligence group, Westwood... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Australia’s oil and gas company Karoon Energy is expected to make up its mind around April 2025 about moving forward with the next stage of development, which represents the entry into front-end engineering design (FEED), for an oil field discovery in the Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil. While Karoon hired a rig... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazilian oil company Prio has denied being in talks to buy the 60% stake owned by Norway's Equinor in the Peregrino oil field. In a securities filing late on Thursday, the company countered a report by newspaper Folha de S.Paulo published earlier that day that said, citing sources, that there were ongoing talks for the... Continue Reading →
(oilprice) Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has canceled a joint venture between state energy company Ecopetrol and Occidental Petroleum on environmental concerns regarding hydraulic fracturing. Bloomberg reported that Petro had shared his concern on national TV, saying he was against a recent expansion of the deal between Ecopetrol and Oxy because it involved fracking, going counter... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Suriname’s national oil company (NOC) Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie) is taking action to secure the money required to cover its part of the development costs for the first-ever offshore oil field in Suriname, which is operated by France’s energy giant TotalEnergies. Based on the production sharing contract for Block 58, Staatsolie has the right... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Norway's Equinor is reducing its ambitions for developing renewable energy capacity by 2030, it said on Wednesday, the latest move by a European energy company to cut green targets as the market for renewables sours. Equinor follows peers BP and Shell, which have trimmed plans to expand in renewable energy, especially offshore wind, where... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Guyana’s Office of the Prime Minister has put its stamp of approval on planned budgetary allocations of $141.45 billion, which is anticipated to lend a helping hand in finishing important projects. As a result, this amount encapsulates a $51.2 billion investment to bolster the country’s flagship gas-to-energy (GtE) project. This sum makes up the lion’s share of a... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras hereby informs that it has received, this week, the following contingent payment installments (earnout): (i) R$2.161 billion from the partners of the Sépia and Atapu blocks - TotalEnergies EP Brasil Ltda. (28%), PETRONAS Petróleo Brasil Ltda. (21%) and QatarEnergy Brasil Ltda. (21%) in Sépia; Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. (25%) and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Colombian energy company Ecopetrol said on Monday it has reached an agreement to renew its oil joint venture with Occidental Petroleum in the U.S. Permian basin in Texas. There had been uncertainty over the future of the joint venture after Ecopetrol, which is majority state owned, backed out of a separate deal last August to acquire $3.6... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, further the notices disclosed on April 27, 2022, and January 26, 2023, hereby informs that today it has received from Petro Rio Jaguar Petróleo S.A. (“PRIO”), a subsidiary of PRIO S.A., R$1.025 billion referring to the contingent payment (earnout) related to the oil barrel price for the 2024 fiscal year. ... Continue Reading →
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