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Aug.9 (oilnow.gy) Guyana is set to receive a larger share of the oil produced from the Stabroek Block after ExxonMobil and its co-venturers recovered about US$55 billion in investment and a substantial amount of operating costs. To understand why, it is important to understand how cost recovery works. ExxonMobil, Hess (owned by Chevron) and CNOOC... Continue Reading →
Aug. 7 (oilprice.com) BP’s Bumerangue discovery is more than another giant Brazilian oil find: it could become the project that keeps both BP’s upstream portfolio and Brazil’s production boom alive well into the 2030s. With an estimated 2.5 billion barrels potentially recoverable and peak output that could reach 600,000 b/d, the ultra-deepwater development is large enough to... Continue Reading →
Feb. 12 (TN) The Brazilian government has made decisive progress in national energy policy by authorizing the expansion of areas for oil and gas exploration in deep and ultra-deep waters in the Campos, Santos, and Espírito Santo basins. This historic decision, built in an integrated manner between the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and... Continue Reading →
February 6, 2026 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.– Petrobras announces that it has received R$ 1.65 billion from its partners in the Sépia and Atapu fields: TotalEnergies EP Brasil Ltda (28%), PETRONAS Petróleo Brasil Ltda (21%), and QatarEnergy Brasil Ltda (21%) in Sépia; and Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda (25%) and TotalEnergies EP Brasil Ltda (22.5%) in... Continue Reading →
Dec. 4 - Petrobras informs that it has acquired the rights and obligations of the Union in Mero and Atapu units at the Non-Contracted Areas Auction held today by Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A. – PPSA. The consortium formed by Petrobras (80%), in partnership with Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda (20%), acquired the Union’s 3.500% participation in the production sharing agreement of the Mero shared... Continue Reading →
Nov. 28 (oilprice.com) After the discovery of oil in Suriname’s territorial waters in January 2020, the government in the capital Paramaribo pitched its hopes on an oil boom matching that of neighboring Guyana. You see, decades of economic mismanagement, excessive spending, and corruption wreaked havoc on the former Dutch colony’s economy. Over the last decade, gross... Continue Reading →
(gCaptain) Equinor, a leading energy company, has announced the execution of a Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA) with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for the renewable energy produced by the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project. The agreement comes after NYSERDA’s February announcement selecting Equinor as a conditional winner in... Continue Reading →
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