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(Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tapped Symone Araujo to lead the country’s oil regulator ANP, according to Friday’s official gazette. Araujo is currently director for natural gas at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. Her nomination still needs the Senate’s approval, and if confirmed she will replace Aurelio Amaral, whose mandate ended last... Continue Reading →
Apr 16, 2020 The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) indicates that the number of cases of Covid-19 in workers in the oil and gas sector in Brazil has risen to 162. As of yesterday, there were 132. Currently, there are still another 1,020 cases being investigated, awaiting test results. Fortunately, so far, there have been no... Continue Reading →
April 16, 2020 MME is working to carry out the 2nd Permanent Offer Auctions in the second half of this year, said Minister Bento Albuquerque, during a webinar held by FGV, in partnership with the EPBR agency, on Wednesday (4/15). Of the four rounds planned for this year - 17th of Concessions, 7th of sharing... Continue Reading →
The physical oil market, where millions of barrels of real cargoes are traded each day, needed OPEC+’s historic cuts to global crude production months ago. On Sunday, producer nations pledged to limit output by an unprecedented 10% of global supply. While there’s skepticism the cuts will prove deep enough -- demand has plunged by far... Continue Reading →
Apr 15, 2020 The activities for the second phase of development of Equinor's Peregrino field, in the Campos Basin, were delayed by approximately two months, according to two sources with knowledge of the subject, in view of logistical difficulties related to the new coronavirus. Peregrino is Equinor's largest offshore operation outside Norway and currently produces... Continue Reading →
There have been 126 confirmed cases of the coronavirus among oil and gas workers in Brazil, including 74 people who were recently on offshore oil platforms, regulator ANP told Reuters on Tuesday, exposing an outbreak far worse than previously thought. The regulator said via email that as of Monday evening there were another 897 suspected... Continue Reading →
April 14, 2020 The ANP has postponed the deadline for submitting the declarations of commerciality of the discovery assessment plans (PADs) of Quindim (1-BRSA-936D-ESS) and Brigadeiro (1-BRSA-926D-ESS), in block ES-M-525 , in the Espirito Santo Basin. Petrobras, operator of the block, will have another 785 days, counting from July 8, 2019, to deliver declarations of... Continue Reading →
Apr 14, 2020 The federal government created a new program that aims to modify the rules of the next auctions for oil and gas fields in Brazil. The information is contained in a decree published in today's edition of the Diário de Oficial da União. The text says that the objective is “to increase the... Continue Reading →
OPEC, Russia, and allies are on the verge of ending the oil price war in an effort to save the oil industry which, in addition to the oil price war consequences, suffered even more as the coronavirus pandemic further curbed the oil demand, creating a whirlwind of adverse effects. However, the allies are still waiting... Continue Reading →
APR 7, 2020 The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) announced on Tuesday (7) a series of flexibilities for companies operating in the oil and gas fields. One of them is the postponement of activities foreseen in the Annual Work Program (PAT) of oil companies in 2020 for up to one year. PAT is the set of... Continue Reading →
