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Jul 17, 2020 Petrobras requested a license from Ibama for the implementation of 12 FPSOs in the Santos Basin pre-salt and the reactivation of an FPSO in Mero (“FPSO Mero FR”). There are four new units for the Buzios field (Buzios FPSOs 9, 10, 11 and 12), in addition to the Sepia 2 FPSOs. Among... Continue Reading →
Jul 17, 2020 BP Energy initiated the licensing of an exploratory well in the BM-C-35 block, in the Campos Basin. It intends to start the campaign in August 2022 and the well is part of the commitment made to the ANP in the Discovery Assessment Plan (PAD) of the Basilisco prospect. After Petrobras' decision to... Continue Reading →
Jul 16, 2020 Wintershall DEA started the licensing process for an exploratory well in the area of block CE-M-601, in deep waters of the Ceará Basin. The vertical well will be drilled in a 2000 m water depth slide and the company expects to find oil, with an average estimate of 24º API. The CE-M-601... Continue Reading →
Jul 14, 2020 Altogether, 40 small and medium-sized companies, 30 of which are Brazilian, are in the dispute to buy onshore mature oil fields from Petrobras, reveals Roberto Ardenghy, director of Institutional Relations at the state-owned company. With the pandemic, the company postponed for 12 months the conclusion of the sale of its 157 onshore... Continue Reading →
Jul 14, 2020 With a 'significantly reduced' risk of corruption, Petrobras is once again eligible to receive investments from KLP, Norway's largest pension fund, with a total equity of R$ 430 billion. In a statement, the fund noted that the company has significantly strengthened its governance in recent years, so that the risk of corruption... Continue Reading →
July 13, 2020 The new coronavirus pandemic accelerated Petrobras' strategy of concentrating efforts on the pre-salt layer. The state-owned company, which had already been selling subsidiaries, announced plans in the last three months to reduce by 34% the number of employees (from 45,500 to 30,000), to close nine commercial buildings and leave half of the... Continue Reading →
On Friday, May 1, two workers on the PXA-1 offshore platform owned by Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras checked into the facility’s infirmary complaining of headaches and fever-like symptoms. Another Petrobras employee fell visibly ill the following day, three workers from the platform told Reuters. The sickness spread further in the subsequent days, stoking anxiety... Continue Reading →
July 11, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has decided, preventively, to interrupt supplying a specific imported batch of aviation gasoline after tests carried out at its research center (Cenpes). The company identified that this batch had a different aromatic content compounds than the batches imported until then, although in accordance with... Continue Reading →
July 9, 2020 After giving up on appealing a lawsuit, Petrobras has already started talks with the National Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) to change the name of the Lula field, the largest oil producing field in the country named after former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The name change was requested in... Continue Reading →
July 9, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, regarding to the news published in the media, referring to the divestment of the Landulpho Alves Refinery (RLAM), clarifies that there was approval by the Company's internal bodies to start the negotiation phase of the applicable contracts and the Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) presented the best binding... Continue Reading →
