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Offshore drilling contractor Pacific Drilling has completed its balance-sheet restructuring and has emerged from the Chapter 11 process. Pacific Drilling said on New Year’s Day that the company and each of its debtor affiliates emerged from bankruptcy signalling the implementation of the ‘Modified First Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of Pacific Drilling S.A. and its... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that an arbitral panel seated in New York, has issued an award in an arbitration initiated by IESA Óleo e Gás S.A. determining the payment of approximately US$ 37 million, plus interest, by its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Netherlands B.V. (PNBV) and the payment of approximately US$ 33 million, plus... Continue Reading →
Pressured by strict U.S. sanctions, Venezuela's oil exports plunged by 376,500 barrels per day (bpd) in 2020, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and internal documents from state-run PDVSA, financially squeezing socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump also put curbs on PDVSA's main trading partners, the owners of tankers still transporting... Continue Reading →
Oil demand from China has been one of the few bright spots for a global petroleum industry severely impacted by a long-term global supply glut and the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The world’s second-largest economy hunger for energy keeps growing despite the global COVID-19 pandemic and a resultant sharp decline in global economic... Continue Reading →
Exxon Mobil Corp signaled in a regulatory filing that higher oil and gas prices and improved chemicals margins would aid fourth-quarter results, but the gains would be overshadowed by an up to $20 billion asset write down. The largest U.S. oil producer has posted losses in the first three quarters of 2020 on an ill-timed... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Oil prices are unlikely to mount much of a recovery in 2021 as a new coronavirus variant and related travel restrictions threaten already weakened fuel demand, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. The poll of 39 economists and analysts conducted in the second half of December forecast Brent crude prices would average $50.67... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 12/20/2019, informs that its Dutch subsidiary Petrobras Netherlands B.V. transferred, today, to companies of Sete Brasil Group, for the symbolic total amount of 7 euros, the equity interest of 15% that it held in each of the Dutch special purpose companies controlled by... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on November 30, 2020, regarding the divestment of Petrobras Gás S.A. (Gaspetro), informs that it received on 12/22/2020 a letter from the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) in which the agency attests that the continuation of the company Compass Gás Energia S.A. (Compass)... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras will concentrate its European commercial activities in Rotterdam. This will result in the transfer of Petrobras Europe Ltd.’s commercial activities from London, England to Petrobras Global Trading B.V. in Rotterdam. The change will start in the next quarter and must be completed by the second half of 2021. The focus on... Continue Reading →
Ten years ago, a future where subsea fields and their power-hungry process equipment could be fully electrified, enabling long step-outs to tap remote reserves with lean new infrastructure architectures, lit the fuse for a spate of investment in subsea power distribution.The result, following at least two major joint industry projects (JIP) and tens of millions... Continue Reading →
