( TNPetroleo) Pre-Sal Petróleo (PPSA) is holding an international bidding this Wednesday, the 28th, at 10 am, for the contracting of a trading agent for the Union share of oil from the Individualized Area of Tupi. The contract will run for five years and is expected to sell 4 million barrels of oil at an... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil Makes Oil Discovery at Uaru-2 Offshore Guyana
(OE) U.S. oil major ExxonMobil said on Tuesday it made an oil discovery at the Uaru-2 well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. Uaru-2 will add to the previously announced gross discovered recoverable resource estimate for the block, which is currently estimated to be approximately 9 billion oil-equivalent barrels, ExxonMobil said. Drilling at Uaru-2 encountered... Continue Reading →
Brazil oil production falls 6% in first quarter, led by Petrobras -ANP
Oil production in Brazil fell 6% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to National Petroleum Agency (ANP) figures seen by Reuters on Monday, led by a drop in output from state-run oil giant Petrobras. Brazil produced an average of about 2.8 million barrels per day in the first three months of the... Continue Reading →
Galp’s First-quarter Profit Falls 13%
Portugal's Galp Energia on Monday reported a 13% slump in adjusted first-quarter net profit, hit by a decline in oil production owing to constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and slower refining activity. Galp suspended output at its largest refinery in Sines and its smallest, Matosinhos, in April 2020. It resumed production at both locations... Continue Reading →
India in talks with Guyana for long-term crude supply -minister
(Reuters) India, the world's third-largest crude consumer and importer, has approached Guyana's government about a possible long-term deal to buy the South American country's oil, a Guyanese official said. India has expressed interest in buying one of the 1 million-barrel cargoes Guyana's government is entitled to in order to test the crude in its refineries,... Continue Reading →
Scheduled for December 2021, CNPE approves parameters for bidding in Sepia and Atapu
(MME) The National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) approved the technical and economic parameters for the Second Bidding Round for the Excessive Volumes of the Transfer of Rights of the Atapu and Sépia Fields. The parameters chosen are derived from robust studies that involve geophysical, geological, reservoir and economic modeling, followed by a multicriteria approach to... Continue Reading →
PPSA -February production under Sharing regime contracts
(TNPetroleo) The accumulated production since 2017, in the three contracts under a sharing regime, reached 50.4 million barrels of oil in February. The Mero Development Area was responsible for 68% of the production in the period. The total accumulated share of the Union's oil surplus has stood at 8.3 million barrels of oil since 2017.... Continue Reading →
Korean names eye $4.6 bn FPSO deal from Petrobas, offshore may add to shipbuilding boon
(Pulse) Korean shipyards enjoying a new heyday from revived commerce and oil activity have their hopes up for another windfall from offshore drilling facilities after years of inactivity. Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) are said to be bidding for a $4.6 billion worth order from... Continue Reading →
CGX taps $19 million loan from Frontera for Guyana projects
Canadian oil and gas companies Frontera Energy and CGX Energy have entered into a term sheet for a $19 million loan that will enable CGX to continue to finance its share of costs related to the Corentyne, Demerara, and Berbice blocks off Guyana. Frontera said that the loan would also allow CGX to further finance... Continue Reading →
Keppel in Talks with Petrobras to Build FPSO for Buzios Field
Singapore's Keppel Corporation has confirmed it has been in talks with the Brazilian oil company Petrobras to built an FPSO vessel for the Buzios field offshore Brazil. In a statement on Friday, responding to an article by Upstream Daily News, Keppel Corp. said: "The company wishes to confirm that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Keppel Shipyard Limited,... Continue Reading →