Norwegian AKOFS Offshore has signed a firm contract for Aker Wayfarer that will continue to perform services as a subsea equipment support vessel (SESV) for Petrobras in Brazil. The duration of the contract is almost four years and the services will commence in the first half of 2023. AKOFS Offshore will perform the operations jointly with... Continue Reading →
Valaris drillship starts new contract with Petrobras in Brazil
Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has revealed that one of its drillships has started its new assignment offshore Brazil with the country’s state-owned giant, Petrobras. Back in October 2021, Valaris won a deal for the stacked drillship Valaris DS-4 with Petrobras for operations offshore Brazil. The contract was for a minimum term of 548 days. At the time, the Valaris DS-4 rig... Continue Reading →
Petrobras: Highlights on production and sales in 2Q22
In 2Q22, we delivered an operating performance fully in line with the Company's plans. Average production of oil, NGL and natural gas reached 2.65 MMboed, 5.1% below 1Q22. This result was mainly due to the beginning of the Production Sharing Contract for the Surplus Volumes of the Transfer of Rights of Atapu and Sepia, effective... Continue Reading →
New updates on Petrobras’ exploratory program off the coast of Espírito Santo.
The company restarted the drilling of the wildcat well ES-M-596, in a water depth of 2,117 meters. As we reported, the original well (1-BRSA-1385-ESS) began to be drilled at the end of June. The drilling of the repeated well, named 1-BRSA-1385A-ESS, began yesterday (19). As the market knows, when the original well is lost, operators... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on payment of remuneration to shareholders
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on 05/05/2022 and 06/20/2022, informs that it is carrying out today the payment of the 2nd installment of the remuneration to shareholders approved by its Board of Directors in a meeting held on 05/05/2022. The gross amount distributed today corresponds to dividends of R$... Continue Reading →
MODEC’s new FPSO on the road to Brazil
Japanese FPSO operator MODEC has seen its new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel set sail from China to Brazil to work in the pre-salt Santos Basin for the country’s energy giant Petrobras. Converted from a very large crude carrier (VLCC) and delivered by COSCO Shipping Dalian in China, the FPSO Almirante Barroso MV32 started its... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Petrobras set to cut gasoline prices Wednesday
(Reuters) - Brazil's Petrobras will reduce gasoline prices at its refineries by about 5% on Wednesday, the state-run oil company said in a statement, its first price cut since late 2021, making analysts review projections for the country's inflation. Federal lawmakers and President Jair Bolsonaro have been putting intense pressure on the company's leadership to... Continue Reading →
Petrobras carrying out assessment of recent oil discovery
Brazilian Petrobras has completed the drilling of a wildcat well, located in the pre-salt Campos Basin offshore Brazil, after finding an oil accumulation. The work is now being done to establish the full potential of this play. At the beginning of April 2022, Petrobras revealed that it had found a new oil accuCampos mulation in a wildcat well... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on Board of Directors’ deliberations
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that, in an extraordinary meeting held today, its Board of Directors (BD), in a session attended only by its members who were not nominated for a new election, fully validated the analyses made by the Eligibility Committee (CELEG) regarding the candidates nominated by the controlling shareholder and minority shareholders... Continue Reading →
Major subsea Christmas trees contracts in the third quarter will be led by Brazil projects
The world market for the supply of underwater Christmas trees should have Brazil as the main stage during this third quarter. In a survey carried out by Westwood Energy, the main contracts of the type expected for the period between July and September should include Shell's Gato do Mato projects in the Santos basin; Maromba,... Continue Reading →