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Mexican industrial group Carso, owned by the billionaire Carlos Slim, has said it has been awarded a contract to build two offshore platforms for the Mexican oil company Pemex. The company said the contract for the engineering, procurement, and construction of two offshore platforms named MALOOB-E and MALOOB-I. The platforms are destined to be deployed... Continue Reading →
Expanding output from the pre-salt province starts to bear fruit for the Brazilian company Petrobras, the Brazilian state-owned oil company, recorded strong production performance across the third quarter, as record figures in the pre-salt region helped boost the firm’s upstream portfolio. Total hydrocarbon output for the quarter reached 2.88mn bl oe/d, a 9.3pc increase over... Continue Reading →
Oct 23, 2019 (Reuters) - Brazilian police conducted raids on Wednesday in a new phase of the sweeping “Car Wash” corruption probe targeting alleged bribery by Italo-Argentine group Techint to secure contracts from state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Federal police and prosecutors said local Techint units Techint Engenharia e Construção SA and Confab Industrial... Continue Reading →
Portugal’s Galp Energia earmarked between 1 billion euros ($1.11 billion) and 1.2 billion euros in annual investment until 2022 in an increase from up to 1 billion under a previous plan, seeking to expand its natural gas and renewable energy business. The oil company’s chief executive, Carlos Nuno Gomes da Silva, said on Tuesday it... Continue Reading →
Norwegian engineering company Aker Solutions aims to generate about half of its revenue from renewable or distinct low carbon solutions by 2030, according to the company’s 20/25/30 strategy. n a statement on Wednesday, Aker Solutions said the oil and gas industry would remain Aker Solutions’ biggest market, but over the next decade the company would... Continue Reading →
Norwegian engineering company Aker Solutions recorded a decrease in its third quarter 2019 profit, but its revenues jumped by 9% driven by increased activity levels compared to the same period last year. Aker Solutions said in its quarterly report on Wednesday that its net income in the third quarter 2019 was NOK 93 million ($10.2M),... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Senate Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee on Tuesday approved the text of a pension reform bill, paving the way for a second and final plenary vote later in the day that will finally enact the landmark bill into law. Brazilian markets rallied and stocks hit an all-time high as the government’s key policy this... Continue Reading →
Norway's Equinor ASA is scouting locations on Brazil's coast to install new natural gas infrastructure, the company's Brazil chief said, as the firm's gas-heavy offshore fields come on-line in the coming years. Natural gas is considered both a promising opportunity and a vexing problem in Brazil. The Latin American oil powerhouse is rapidly developing a... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Petrobras could take over marketing of the government’s share of crude from offshore oilfields, a government official told Reuters, adding significantly to the state-run oil firm’s trading operations. In an interview on Monday, the head of Pre-Salt Petroleum, better known by its Portuguese acronym PPSA, said it is close to inking a deal in... Continue Reading →
Oct 22, 2019 The Dutch group OOS is the new owner of the semi-submersible ODN Delba III, which until August was part of Ocyan's fleet in Brazil. The company acquired the equipment after settling the operation with a pool of banks financing the unit, led by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Made in conjunction with... Continue Reading →
