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(Reuters) - Brazil's state-run Petrobras (PETR4.SA), opens new tab is in talks with other national oil companies in China, India and the Middle East, including Kuwait Petroleum and Qatar Energy, to collaborate on energy projects, its chief executive said on Wednesday. The company is also keen to work with neighbouring Venezuela, Jean Paul Prates told Reuters on... Continue Reading →
(PN) 3R announced that it hired Itaú BBA as the company's financial advisor in evaluating the operation. The consultancy includes, together with internal teams and legal advisors, the evaluation of the strategy and schedule, and the analysis of the best corporate structure for implementing the potential transaction, if implemented. As a reminder, the merger proposal... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas firm Hess (HES.N), opens new tab beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by higher production in its Bakken shale and Guyana operations. Hess has agreed to be acquired by Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab for $53 billion in an all-stock deal that would give the No. 2 U.S. oil producer... Continue Reading →
(OET) Norway’s compressed air systems supplier TMC Compressors has been hired by Yinson Production to deliver a large-capacity marine compressed air system on board a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel destined to operate offshore Angola. TMC Compressors reported on Monday, January 29, 2024, that the marine compressed air system would entail compressors for control... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that, in 2023, it reached total oil and natural gas production of 2.78 MMboed, 3.7% higher than the production recorded in 2022. Commercial production of oil and natural gas was 2.44 MMboed and oil production 2.24 MMbpd. These results exceeded our Strategic Plan 23-27 guidances and were in line... Continue Reading →
The exponential growth in pre-salt production, 240% since the first oil in the region, and the maintenance of refinery capacity generated a significant volume of surplus input, sold on the international market. The projection is for a continuous increase until 2030. Brazil reached a historic milestone in its oil exports, reaching the highest volume in... Continue Reading →
(OE) The topside modules for the giant Bacalhau floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit have started the journey to Singapore where they will be integrated with the hull before heading for an assignment to Equinor-operated oil project offshore Brazil. The 22,000 tons of newly constructed modules, designed and built by Norwegian firm Aibel, have... Continue Reading →
(OET) Australian oil and gas company Karoon Energy is working on sorting out the issues impeding the restart of production from a well located on a field in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. To this end, well intervention activities are seen as the likely solution for the well to come back online. Karoon’s production from the Baúna project,... Continue Reading →
(OE) The first multiphase pumping subsea system (MPP), that will support oil and gas production at the Atlanta field in Brazil's Santos Basin, has been shipped from Norway, Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta has informed. The MPP, manufactured by OneSubsea, was loaded on January 21, 2024, in Norway ahead of shipping for Brazil. The... Continue Reading →
(BJ) A relevant shareholder of 3R Petroleum is proposing a carveout of the company's onshore oil fields and the incorporation of these assets by PetroReconcavo, in a transaction that shows the struggle of junior oils for scale, sources familiar with the matter told Brazil Journal. The rationale for the transaction is already known to the... Continue Reading →
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