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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 →
(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 →
(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 →
(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 →
(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 →
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 →
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 →
(BUSINESS WIRE)--GeoPark Limited (“GeoPark” or the “Company”) (NYSE: GPRK), a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, today announced its operational update for the three-month period ended March 31, 2021 (“1Q2021”). All figures are expressed in US Dollars. Growth... Continue Reading →
PetroRio S.A. (“Company” or “PetroRio”) informs its shareholders and the market in general that a new reserves and resources certification report was published by DeGolyer & MacNaughton (“D&M”), dated as of January 1, 2021, which includes Polvo, Tubarão Martelo, Frade and Manati Field reserves and Block BM-C-30 (“Wahoo”) contingent resources, where PetroRio currently holds a... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors approved today the signing of the Agreement with the Federal Government, which establishes the stakes in each contract and the amount of compensation to Petrobras in the event of a bid for the Transfer of Rights´ surplus volumes in the fields of Sépia and... Continue Reading →
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