Petro Rio S.A. ("PRIO") (B3: PRIO3) informs that the Board of Directors approved the acquisition of up to 5.43% of the total shares issued by PRIO ("Share Buyback Program"). The Share Buyback may occur in one or more operations, and PRIO's Board of Directors will define the volumes in due course, considering the following conditions:... Continue Reading →
PRIO on the signing of the Dommo incorporation protocol
Petro Rio S.A. (PRIO”), following the Material Fact disclosed on the September 1st, 2022, informs its shareholders and the market in general that, on October 1, 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors approved, and the managements of the Company, as consenting intervening party, and of Dommo Energia S.A (“Dommo”) and Petro Rio OPCO Exploração Petrolífera... Continue Reading →
Booming Brazilian E&P buoys Rio Oil & Gas show but market still waits on Petrobras rig contract awards.
(OM) News from Rio Oil & Gas 2022 is upbeat about the prospects for offshore E&P, according to Evercore ISI’s most recent Offshore Oracle report, with many international operators offering updates on their upcoming projects slated offshore Brazil. Added to that was Exxon Mobil’s announcement that $13 trillion in new oil and gas investments will be... Continue Reading →
Vattenfall to Build 980MW Offshore Wind Farm in Germany
(OED) Swedish firm Vattenfall has obtained the right to develop the N-7.2 offshore wind power project off the German North Sea coast. The project is expected to generate enough electricity to power the equivalent oif more than one million German households. As part of the tender process for the construction of a large wind farm... Continue Reading →
Hurricane Ian Shuts 157,706 BPD of Oil Output in U.S. Gulf of Mexico
About 157,706 barrels, or 9%, of oil production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico were shut on Wednesday by Hurricane Ian, said offshore regulator Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Hurricane Ian was lashing Florida's Gulf Coast with powerful winds and drenching rain, but the Category 5 storm steered clear of the Gulf's richest oil production areas. ... Continue Reading →
Petrobras ready for pre-operational tests in the equatorial margin
(U) Petrobras is confident of getting over the final hurdle and obtaining environmental permits to drill at a location close to the maritime frontier of French Guiana Brazil's Petrobras is set to conduct a pre-operational simulation as the final step to obtaining environmental permits to drill a landmark wildcat in the northern Brazilian offshore play... Continue Reading →
Final investment decision on Equinor’s next Brazilian floater to come ‘soon’
(U) Equinor is set to sanction development of the giant Pao de Acucar gas condensate field on Block BM-C-33 in Brazil’s Campos basin, according to an executive with the Norwegian major. "It will be soon," Ana Serrano Onate, Equinor's senior vice president for petroleum technology, told Upstream when quizzed about the timing of a long-awaited... Continue Reading →
Exclusive: Mexican regulator has no record of Pemex reporting methane leak, documents show
(Reuters) - Mexico's environmental regulator has no records of state oil company Pemex reporting a methane leak last December at the country's top oil field, according to the regulator's response to a freedom of information request filed by Reuters. "There are no records" of "a possible incident at the asset Ku-Maloob-Zaap in December 2021," regulator... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s oil sector braces for election fallout
Presidential campaign rhetoric raises fears of return to failed policies (U) Brazilian politicians have a long track record of meddling in the country’s oil and gas sector, particularly on the thorny topic of fuel prices. And with Brazil's presidential elections just around the corner, there are fears that a change in government will bring a... Continue Reading →
Upcoming pre-salt bid round could be last under Bolsonaro
(U) The first bid round featuring pre-salt acreage under the permanent offer mechanism will be the last auction of the current four-year term of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro. Scheduled for 16 December, the round has attracted interest from supermajors in the US and Europe, as well as from oil companies in Asia looking for a... Continue Reading →