Brazil’s Lula Doubles Down On Oil And Rare Earths As Brazil’s Strategic Future

May 22 (oilprice.com) Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has explicitly linked oil exploration and rare-earth mining to Brazil's national sovereignty, declaring that the country’s subsoil resources must be used to drive domestic industrialization rather than enrich foreign nations. Speaking at Petrobras’(NYSE:PBR) giant refinery, Refinaria de Paulínia (Replan), in São Paulo, Lula emphasized that Brazil must actively... Continue Reading →

May 23, 2026 0

Sea Lion Partners Eye Major Offshore Expansion with Second FPSO

May 21 (OE) Rockhopper Exploration has informed that the operator Navitas Petroleum is studying an accelerated expansion of the Sea Lion offshore oil development north of the Falkland Islands after signing a memorandum of understanding for a second floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO). The additional FPSO could raise Sea Lion production capacity by... Continue Reading →

May 21, 2026 0

BW Energy Greenlights Gabon, Brazil Oil and Gas Projects

May 20 (OE) BW Energy has made final investment decisions (FID) for the Bourdon development in the Dussafu license offshore Gabon and a new infill drilling campaign in the Golfinho license offshore Brazil, targeting combined 2P reserves of 68 million barrels of oil equivalent. The company said the two projects are expected to increase net... Continue Reading →

May 20, 2026 0

QatarEnergy Enters Uruguay with Shell Deal for Three Offshore Blocks

May 20 (OE) QatarEnergy has acquired participating interests in three exploration blocks offshore Uruguay from BG International Limited, a subsidiary of Shell. Under the agreements, QatarEnergy has acquired an 18% interest in block ‘OFF-4’, while Shell held 32%, and APA Corporation (the operator) retained the remaining 50%. QatarEnergy has also acquired a 30% interest in... Continue Reading →

May 20, 2026 0

Petrobras studies opportunities in Mexico and studies new Venezuelan legislation

May 13 - Petrobras' president, Magda Chambriard, stated that the state-owned company will send delegations from the refining and oil exploration and production areas to Mexico to assess potential business opportunities in partnership with the state-owned Pemex. The new visit of Petrobras representatives to Mexico occurs a few weeks after Chambriard visited the country last... Continue Reading →

May 13, 2026 0

Equinor shares fall as cash flow miss outweighs record output, soaring prices

May 6 (Reuters) - Equinor missed quarterly cash-flow forecasts on Wednesday, hitting its shares even as the Norwegian oil major posted its strongest profit in three years on record output and Iran war-driven price gains. Shares in the majority state-owned group were down 7.6% at 0911 GMT, underperforming a 2% drop in European energy stocks, though... Continue Reading →

May 6, 2026 0

PRIO: April 2026 Operational Data

May 4, 2026 - PRIO S.A. (“Company” or “PRIO”) (B3: PRIO3), following best practices incorporate governance and transparency, informs its preliminary and non-audited Operational Data for the month of April. Key: (1) At the Valente cluster, the third producing well in the Wahoo field began production on April 6. The fourth well is expected to... Continue Reading →

May 5, 2026 0

Petrobras announces approval of the Production Individualization Agreements for the Sururu and Berbigão shared reservoirs

May 4, 2026 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras announces that it has been notified by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) on April 30, 2026, regarding the approval of the Production Individualization Agreements (AIP) for the Berbigão Shared Reservoir in Zone BVE-ITP/RJS-656 (Sururu) and the Zone BVE-ITD/RJS-697 of Berbigão (Berbigão),... Continue Reading →

May 5, 2026 0

Brazil broke another oil and natural gas record with 5.531 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) production in March

May 4 - Brazil broke a record for oil and natural gas production in March, with 5.531 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d). The data was released May 4th by the ANP in its Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin. The previous record was in February 2026. Regarding oil, 4.247 million barrels... Continue Reading →

May 4, 2026 0

Chevron’s upstream strength lifts first-quarter earnings past estimate

May 1 (Reuters) - Chevron exceeded Wall Street estimates for its first-quarter earnings on Friday, as elevated oil prices linked to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran helped boost results from its upstream business. The company reported adjusted earnings of $1.41 per share, well above ‌the consensus estimate of 95 cents, according to data compiled by LSEG.... Continue Reading →

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