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Sept 22, 2020 Activity in Brazil’s energy patch keeps ratcheting ever higher. During January 2020, Latin America’s largest economy saw its all-important petroleum industry achieve a new milestone pumping on average a record 3.168 million barrels of crude daily. The COVID-19 pandemic and March 2020 oil price collapse did little to slow the oil boom... Continue Reading →
September 21, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras (“Petrobras”) (NYSE: PBR) today announced the final results of the previously announced offers to purchase for cash by its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras Global Finance B.V. (“PGF”), of any and all of its outstanding notes of the series set forth in the table below (the “Notes” and such... Continue Reading →
September 21, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media, referring to the divestment of the Presidente Getúlio Vargas Refinery (Repar), clarifies that the binding stage of the competitive process counts with the participation of Ultrapar Participações S.A., the consortium led by Raízen S.A. and China Petroleum &... Continue Reading →
Royal Dutch Shell is looking to slash up to 40% off the cost of producing oil and gas in a major drive to save cash so it can overhaul its business and focus more on renewable energy and power markets, sources told Reuters. Shell’s new cost-cutting review, known internally as Project Reshape and expected to... Continue Reading →
Sept 21, 2020 Norwegian marine seismic services company Shearwater GeoServices said Monday it had been awarded a contract by Malaysia's Petronas for work offshore Suriname. The award is for a large towed streamer 3D seismic survey over Petronas' Block 52, offshore Suriname. The four-month survey project is scheduled to start in Q4, 2020. "This new... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 The United States and Guyana will begin joint maritime patrols aimed at drug interdiction near the South American country’s disputed border with crisis-stricken Venezuela, the U.S. secretary of state and Guyana’s new president said on Friday. The agreement comes as U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp, as part of a consortium with... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 Niport will provide offshore support to ExxonMobil's exploratory drilling campaign in Brazil in 2021. The company recently won the bid from the North American oil company to carry out the logistical operation on two different fronts: one in Rio de Janeiro to support activities in the Santos Basin and another in the... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 (Bloomberg) --Petroleos Mexicanos expects a drastic drop in oil exports over the next three years as the company faces the twin challenges of declining output and supplying crude to a controversial new $8 billion refinery championed by the country’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Pemex, as the state oil company is also... Continue Reading →
September 18, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has launched two programs aimed at preparing its refining and natural gas activities for an open, competitive market and to transition into a low carbon economy. Biorefino 2030 forecasts projects for the generation of new, more modern and sustainable fuel, different than the current... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2020 Another offshore wind farm project is being developed, this time on the coast of Espírito Santo - confirming the rush of companies for a place in this new frontier of renewable energy generation in the country. Vestu Winds, a newly created company, headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, sees the possibility of installing... Continue Reading →
