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Every now and then, Anelise Lara has to pass a row of coffins laid out near Petrobras’s offices in Rio de Janeiro, where she runs the oil giant’s $21 billion divestment program. The caskets are a protest by workers fearful the assets she’s pushing to sell will go to foreign companies more focused on profits than... Continue Reading →
May 08, 2018 The initial Petrobras plans to put eight platforms in operation in 2018, could undergo its first changes. Production and technology development director Hugo Repsold said that there is a possibility that the P-68 platform will start operations only in 2019. Despite the likelihood of extending the deadline, the executive stated that... Continue Reading →
May 9, 2018 Karoon said on Tuesday that shallow water fields in the Santos Basin have between 46 million and 138 million barrels of contingent resources. The review of the reserves of Echidna and Kangaroo was made upon completion of further studies. The plan for the region is to install, in 2019, an FPSO with... Continue Reading →
Rolls-Royce has signed a long-term service agreement with offshore vessel owner Siem Offshore for the maintenance of its deck machinery installations aboard 12 anchor handling vessels. Rolls-Royce said on Wednesday that the five-year maintenance inspection program (MIP) was the formalization of a cooperation agreement between the two companies. Read more
French oil major Total has said it found no evidence of “biogenic formation” in the Foz do Amazonas basin off Brazil, following reports that the Greenpeace has found “rhodolith beds” near the same area where Total plans to drill for oil. In a statement in mid-April, Greenpeace said that team of scientists onboard the Greenpeace Esperanza ship... Continue Reading →
Joaquim Barbosa, a former chief justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court with anti-corruption credentials, said on Tuesday he would not run for the presidency in October, despite a growing clamor for his candidacy. Read more
Prumo Logística reported that the subsidiary Porto do Açu Operações (Açu Port Manager, in the North Coast of Rio de Janeiro) signed a contract with another subsidiary, Gás Natural Açu, to lease an area of 378 thousand m2 in Terminal 2 of marine complex for 23 years, renewable for more than 25 years, aiming at... Continue Reading →
The sale of the Azulão field from Petrobras to Eneva, concluded on April 30th, took almost a year to complete, more precisely 350 days, a survey conducted by Brasil Energia Petróleo. The project was the first E & P asset offered for sale under the rules TCU system. Another 21 projects are in different stages.... Continue Reading →
Ecopetrol is preparing to participate in the 4th Production Sharing Round in June, the company's Vice President of Exploration Max Torres said during a conference with analysts. The company even registered in the second and third rounds of the pre-salt in 2017, but did not submit offers. "[Brazil] is a very hot market at the... Continue Reading →
Rio de Janeiro, May 8, 2018 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras reports that its Board of Directors approved in a meeting held yesterday the distribution of early remuneration to shareholders as Interest on Capital (IOC), as defined in art. 9, sole paragraph of its bylaws and in article 9 of Law 9.249/95. The value... Continue Reading →
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