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(Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures turned negative on Monday for the first time in history as storage space was filling up, discouraging buyers as weak economic data from Germany and Japan cast doubt on when fuel consumption will recover. Physical demand for crude has dried up, creating a global supply glut as billions of... Continue Reading →
April 20, 2020 Shell starts, by the end of April, drilling its first well on Saturno, a block acquired in the 5th Production Sharing Round, in 2018. The information was confirmed by the company to PetróleoHoje. According to the activity characterization form, submitted to Ibama in 2018, the active drilling project foresees up to five... Continue Reading →
Piracy activity on the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico seems to be picking up, with several attacks in the past month on offshore support vessels. A little over a week ago, a Maersk Supply Service's offshore vessel was a target of an armed robbery offshore Ciudad Del Carmen, Mexico. Armed robbers boarded Maersk... Continue Reading →
Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras plans to restart operations in the coming days at two ships used in offshore oil production that suffered coronavirus outbreaks, an executive told journalists during a call on Friday. Petrobras Exploration and Production Director Carlos Alberto de Oliveira said operations at the Cidade de Santos should restart over the weekend,... Continue Reading →
Brazil's oil industry has requested 29 oilfields be mothballed so far, including 16 offshore and 13 onshore, with a total production of 65,000 barrels per day, as the sector struggles with lower demand amid the coronavirus outbreak, local regulator ANP said. Twenty of the oilfields expected to be mothballed are in the process of being... Continue Reading →
As the offshore market entered 2020, many within the industry had an optimistic outlook for the future and the consensus was ‘the worst is behind us’. However, nobody could have foreseen the events that would unfold in Q1 2020 and the impact that would be felt throughout every corner of the global economy. Continue reading
U.S. oilfield services giant Halliburton (HAL.N) on Monday reported a $1 billion first-quarter loss on charges and warned that bleak conditions in the U.S. shale patch would depress its results for the rest of the year. Oil prices have collapsed 80% since January to levels well below many shale drillers’ cost of production, resulting in... Continue Reading →
Apr 20, 2020 Petrobras has adopted emergency and temporary measures that have as a priority to preserve jobs and the company's sustainability in what is the worst crisis in the oil industry in a hundred years. There have not been and will not be dismissals of Petrobras employees. The measures to temporarily reduce personnel expenses... Continue Reading →
Apr 17, 2020 Times of crisis in the industry are forcing Petrobras to reassess contracts with its suppliers. But the president of the state-owned company, Roberto Castello Branco, guaranteed on Friday (17) that he will not make renegotiations with small companies, to maintain the integrity of the national supply chain. In the executive's assessment, this... Continue Reading →
Apr 17, 2020 The director of exploration and production at Petrobras, Carlos Alberto Pereira de Oliveira, declared that the exploration of the pre-salt is viable even in the face of the current scenario of lower prices. The statement was made today (17), in an online press conference. "We have a very robust portfolio, particularly in... Continue Reading →
