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Rio de Janeiro, August 21, 2026 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has submitted an expression of interest in exploration blocks located in offshore areas of the Keta Basin, in Ghana, a country on the west coast of Africa. The Ministry of Energy and Green Transition of Ghana has approved the application... Continue Reading →
Aug. 20 - Alexandre de Gusmão FPSO, the fifth to be installed in the Mero field in the Santos Basin pre-salt, reached peak production, at 180,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd). Mero is the third largest producing field in Brazil, after Búzios and Tupi. “Each unit that reaches the maximum production level envisaged in the project not only contributes to the... Continue Reading →
Aug, 20 (oilprice.com) Anadarko Peru, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) is moving ahead with plans to drill its first exploration well offshore northern Peru in 2027, advancing a project that could help unlock a major new source of domestic oil and gas. The company, operator of offshore Blocks Z-61, Z-62 and Z-63 in the... Continue Reading →
Aug. 10 (offshoreWIND.biz) Ørsted expects three of its offshore wind farms currently under construction to reach full commissioning in the second half of 2026, with Borkum Riffgrund 3 in Germany, Greater Changhua 2b and 4 in Taiwan, and Revolution Wind in the US all approaching completion. The updates were provided by Ørsted as part of... Continue Reading →
Aug. 20 (oilnow.gy) The Errea Wittu floating production, storage and offloading vessel was positioned off Guyana’s coast on August 19, VesselFinder data showed. The automatic identification system data listed Georgetown, Guyana, as the vessel’s destination. It was traveling at 7.4 knots, with an estimated arrival time of 10 a.m. today. Arrival estimates can change based... Continue Reading →
Aug 19 (Reuters) - Oil service provider SLB and private equity firm Formentera Partners are working to either reactivate oil rigs in Venezuela or import additional rigs into the country in the coming months, executives from both firms said on Wednesday during a conference in Houston. Energy-focused Formentera is in discussions with international service providers to... Continue Reading →
Aug 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's largest thermal power plant, GNA II, said on Wednesday its operations have been interrupted since August 10 after a failure in the steam turbine circuit breaker affected the unit's step-up transformer. The gas-fired plant is located in the Acu port in Rio de Janeiro and has 1.7 gigawatts of installed... Continue Reading →
Aug 19 - BRAVA ENERGIA S.A. (“Brava” or “Company”) (B3: BRAV3), pursuant to CVM Resolution No. 44, hereby informs its investors and the market in general that, on August 18, 2026, it received resignation letters from Mr. Mateus Tessler, from the positions of member of the Board of Directors and Coordinator and member of the... Continue Reading →
Aug. 19 (oilprice.com) Venezuela has signed deals with oilfield service major SLB and Hunt Oil Co. as part of efforts to boost investment in its key energy industry, Bloomberg reported, citing a TV statement made by the South American country’s oil minister, Paula Henao. One of the deals involves development of two fields and the other... Continue Reading →
Aug 18 (Reuters) - Equinor said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy a stake in an oil exploration licence in Namibia from a subsidiary of U.S. energy major Chevron as the Norwegian company seeks to boost its international portfolio. The purchase of a 17.4% stake in the PEL 90 petroleum exploration licence in the Orange Basin... Continue Reading →
