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Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling recorded a decrease in quarterly revenues as its deepwater rig utilization dropped during the period. Vantage said in its quarterly report on Thursday that its 3Q 2019 revenues were $35.8 million compared to $59 million in 3Q 2018. Continue reading
Brazil’s biggest-ever oil auction frustrated expectations on Wednesday, as high prices and the dominant role of state-run oil company Petrobras scared off global oil majors. Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.SA), as the Brazilian firm is also known, and Chinese state firms CNOOC (0883.HK) and CNODC [CNPC.UL] made the only bids out of over a dozen major... Continue Reading →
November 6, 2019 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that will be the operator with 90% stake in the consortium with CNODC Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda. (5% stake) and CNOOC Petroleum Brasil Ltda. (5% stake), which acquired today the exploration and production rights ofthe surplus volume of Búzios field from the Transfer of Rights... Continue Reading →
Nov 6, 2019 (Reuters) - A consortium led by Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras and including China’s state-run companies CNOOC and CNODC was awarded the most promising block of the nation’s Transfer of Rights auction on Wednesday. The Buzios block was won by the companies by offering the minimum profit oil allowed for that area,... Continue Reading →
NOV 6, 2019 Almost all set for the FPSO P-70 to sail to Brazil. The information was revealed by the Minister of Mines and Energy, Bento Albuquerque, during a conversation with journalists in Brasilia. “I had the opportunity to visit the FPSO P-70 on my visit to China. It is in the final phase of... Continue Reading →
Brazil is holding what may be the world’s priciest-ever sale of oil prospects on Wednesday, with all eyes on who takes the giant Buzios field. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are among heavyweights signed up to bid for four deep-water areas known as the transfer-of-rights reserves. It’s a prime piece of real estate at the... Continue Reading →
Nov 5, 2019 PetroRio expects to reduce its extraction cost to $ 20 a barrel by December. The company closed the third quarter of 2019 at a cost of $ 22.9 a barrel, compared with $ 24 in the second quarter. According to the Brazilian oil company, the reduction of extraction costs was made possible... Continue Reading →
French marine seismic company CGG reported Group net income of $41 million for the first quarter of 2019, compared to the previous year’s 3Q loss of $1.5 million. Group revenue was $323.4 million down $387.7 million in the third quarter of 2018. Operating income was higher in this year’s 3Q coming in at 98 million,... Continue Reading →
Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has just completed a deepwater proprietary 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The survey, started in late 2018, covered the Buzios field, lying in around 2000 m water depth. Fugro said on Wednesday that, utilizing Seabed Geosolutions’ Manta ocean bottom... Continue Reading →
Nov 5, 2019 In the first half of November, Petrobras will begin drilling its first Uirapuru exploratory well, an area of the Santos cluster that was auctioned off in the 4th round of sharing, in 2018. The campaign will be carried out by Seadrill's West Tellus drillship have a new contract. The chartering of the... Continue Reading →
