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Oil and gas company Apache Corporation has selected its fifth exploration well offshore Suriname in Block 58 and filed appraisal plans for two previous discoveries. Apache said in its third-quarter financial report that the company has selected its fifth exploration well – named Bonboni –situated in the North Central portion of Block 58. The company... Continue Reading →
A further increase in the gross recoverable resources is anticipated at Guyana’s Stabroek Block, adding to the recently upgraded 9 billion boe estimate, according to Hess Corporation. Greg Hill, Chief Operating Officer, explained to investors on the company’s Q3 earnings call last week that the 9 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) upgrade that was... Continue Reading →
Oil futures prices have started to signal OPEC+ may have to do more to offset a second wave of coronavirus and a renewed economic slowdown. Between mid-September and mid-October, Brent’s six-month calendar spread had been tightening, a signal traders expected production to run below consumption and inventories to fall. Over the last ten days, however,... Continue Reading →
Crane specialist Palfinger will deliver two wire luffing lattice boom cranes to the largest FPSO vessel ever delivered to Brazil. The FPSO, to be delivered by Japan's Modec, will be deployed at Equinor's Bacalhau field (formerly Carcará), about 185 kilometers off the Brazilian coast – south of São Paulo – at a water depth of around 2,050 meters.... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has readjusted, on 11/01/2020, the sales prices of natural gas for distributors for the contracts started in January 2020. The adjustments occurred according to parameters negotiated in contractual formulas, due to variations in Brent oil prices and the Real/Dollar exchange rate in the last quarter. The readjustment... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on August 7, 2020, informs the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale of its entire stake in the fields in shallow waters of Tuna, Curimã, Espada and Xaréu (Ceará Cluster), located in the state of Ceará. Potential buyers qualified for this phase... Continue Reading →
Total is seeking to sell stakes in a number of Angolan oilfields, in what is seen as an early sign of an expected wave of divestments by big energy companies from the West African country, industry sources said. Total could raise around $300 million from the sale of its 20% stake in Angola's offshore Block... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of all of its stakes in a set of twenty-eight onshore production field concessions, with integrated facilities, located in the Recôncavo and Tucano Basins, in different municipalities of the state of Bahia, jointly called the Bahia... Continue Reading →
Looking at different energy visions of the two U.S. presidential candidates, Rystad Energy believes that if Trump should win it may make oil prices great again while Biden effect is more mixed. The U.S. presidential election of 2020 comes amid a pandemic that has ravaged energy markets and the two main candidates have very divergent... Continue Reading →
The United States has assured Italian oil company Eni SpA that efforts to prevent a spill at a floating crude facility in Venezuela would not run afoul of sanctions, the company, and the U.S. State Department said on Monday. Images in recent months showing the Nabarima floating storage and offloading facility (FSO), part of the... Continue Reading →
