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Petrobras, following up on the press release of November 7, 2019, reports that it has signed today with Copagaz and Nacional Gás Butano a contract for sale of all its stake in Liquigás Distribuidora S.A. The sale price is R$ 3.7 billion, to be adjusted according to contract rules and paid upon transaction closing. As... Continue Reading →
Brazil's state-owned oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA expects deep offshore areas to account for 88% of its exploration and production activities next year, up from 55% currently, an executive for the company said on Tuesday. The major shift to deep offshore areas will correspond with onshore exploration and production falling to 10% of Petrobras' activities... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Petrobras is on track to become the world’s largest oil producer among publicly listed companies by 2030, based on Rystad Energy’s latest data and forecasts. Brazil’s biggest-ever oil auctions in November were generally deemed to be disappointing, receiving muted interest from international exploration and production companies. However, national oil company Petrobras could not have asked... Continue Reading →
Nov 19, 2019 ANP extended deadline for Petrobras to conclude operations involving land and shallow water fields The ANP has extended the deadlines for Petrobras to complete its divestments in land and shallow water. The operations involve 124 fields at 20 clusters - some of them already sold, but not yet with all the regulatory... Continue Reading →
Oil and natural gas producer China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has promoted its executive director and president to the position of the chief executive officer (CEO). CNOOC said that its executive director and president Xu Keqiang was appointed as the CEO of the company with effect from November 19. Continue reading
Nov 18, 2019 Petrobras has completed the largest seismic survey in the world, in the area of the Búzios onerous assignment, located in the Santos Basin, about 200 km from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Begun in November 2018, the project used ocean bottom nodes installed in 6,600 locations in an area of 1,600... Continue Reading →
Norwegian oilfield services company Aker Solutions and a group of oil and gas operators have come together in a joint industry project with the aim of making subsea gas separation a reality. Using CO2 injection to increase recovery rates in offshore oil and gas fields can improve the economics of a field significantly, but so... Continue Reading →
November 14, 2019 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras reports that today it started up oil and natural gas production at platform P-68 in the Berbigão field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. Following P-67, in the Lula field, and P-76 and P-77, in the Buzios field, P-68 is the fourth unit to start up in 2019,... Continue Reading →
Nov 14, 2019 Petrobras has launched a tender for contracting offshore platform maintenance services, which include the Buzios field units, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. - Lot A provides services for the P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77 FPSOs, all owned by Petrobras, with a production capacity of 150 thousand barrels / day, in... Continue Reading →
November 13, 2019 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release dated 09/13/2019, reports on the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale of its stakes in two onshore concessions, including offloading facilities named Cupiúba and Carapanaúba Cluster, located in the state of Amazonas. Qualified parties for this phase will receive invitation... Continue Reading →
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