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May 7, 2020 Petrobras should start in June a new exploratory campaign in the Campos Basin, in the CM-657 block, acquired in the 15th ANP Concession Round, in 2018. Although the company is postponing some works and cutting investments due to the Covid-19 crisis and the price of oil, the oil company is prepared to... Continue Reading →
May 6, 2020 Petrobras received approval from the regulatory authority for the acquisition of a slice of Norwegian Equinor's operations in two exploration blocks in the Espírito Santo Basin. The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) gave unrestricted endorsement to the businesses, which involve the ES-M-598 and ES-M-673 blocks, according to an order published in... Continue Reading →
May 6, 2020 Petrobras President Roberto Castello Branco said on Tuesday that he expects the global economic recovery to proceed slowly after the new coronavirus pandemic. Given this, he does not believe that oil prices will return to the level of $ 60 or $ 70 a barrel. "The adjustment mechanism [of the industry to... Continue Reading →
May 06, 2020 Petrobras obtained support from Odebrecht to transform Braskem into a company with no defined control, thus facilitating a future sale of its stake in the petrochemical company via the capital markets, said the president of the oil company, Roberto Castello Branco on Tuesday. The executive considered, however, that it is necessary to... Continue Reading →
May 5, 2020 Petrobras asked Cade for authorization to acquire Equinor's stake in block ES-M-596, in deep waters of the Espírito Santo Basin. The block is operated by the state company with a 50% stake, in partnership with the Norwegian company, which holds the remaining 50%. Source: PetroleoHoje
May 5, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on March 10, related to the New Deficit Equation Plan (New Plan) of the Renegotiated and Non-Renegotiated Petrobras System Petros plans (PPSP-R and PPSP-NR), informs that obtained the approval by the Secretariat for Coordination and Governance of State-Owned Companies (SEST)... Continue Reading →
May 5, 2020 ANP published the Monthly Bulletin of Oil and Natural Gas Production with detailed data for March 2020. This month, 3,739 MMboe / d (million barrels of oil equivalent per day) were produced, of which 2,973 MMbbl / d ( million barrels per day) of oil and 122 MMm3 / d (million m3... Continue Reading →
May 04, 2020 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on March 18 , 2020, regarding the sale of its entire 51% stake in Petrobras Gás S.A. (Gaspetro), informs the reopening of the analysis and qualification phase for potential buyers, which will extend until May 15, 2020. The adjusted... Continue Reading →
May 04, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on January 31 , 2020, announces the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale of all of its shares in the companies Eólica Mangue Seco 1 and Eólica Mangue Seco 2, owners of wind farm generation plants. The company... Continue Reading →
Brazil produced 2.973 million barrels per day of oil in March, up 0.1% from February and up 16.1% from the same month a year before, national oil regulator ANP said on Monday. The figures suggest that production cuts announced at the end of March by state-run oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA had a relatively modest... Continue Reading →
