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(Bloomberg) --Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to boost flagging oil production. The funds allocated for the state producer in a 2022 budget proposal, including operational spending, represent a 17% increase from this year. Of the total, about $18 billion... Continue Reading →
New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE) (“NFE”) announced today that it has executed definitive commercial terms with a subsidiary of Norsk Hydro ASA (“Hydro”) to supply natural gas to the Alunorte Alumina Refinery in Pará, Brazil for a term of 15 years. “We are excited to partner with Hydro to transition the Alunorte refinery to... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on July 21, 2021, informs that, as scheduled, it concluded today the settlement of the Term of Commitment entered into with Fundação Petrobras de Seguridade Social (Petros) relating to the migration process of the Renegotiated and Non-Renegotiated Petrobras System’s Petros plans (PPSP-R and PPSP-NR)... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras announces that it has approved new contract models for the sale of gasoline A and road and marine diesel to fuel distributors, aiming to simplify some processes, increase competitiveness, and bring flexibility to Petrobras in the adoption of new commercial strategies. In the current market scenario, characterized by the entry... Continue Reading →
The National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (“ANP”) published, on 07/27/20121, the edict for the 17th Bidding Round for Exploratory Blocks. 92 (ninety-two) blocks will be offered, distributed in 4 (four) sedimentary basins, located in the Campos, Pelotas, Potiguar and Santos basins, with areas of high potential and new exploratory frontiers. Among the... Continue Reading →
Liza Unity FPSO, set to become Guyana's second offshore production unit, has been completed in Singapore and has set sail towards Guyana. Keppel Shipyard, responsible for the construction and integration of the topside modules with the China-built FPSO hull said Thursday it had delivered the FPSO to SBM Offshore. Once in Guyana, the FPSO will... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil firm ExxonMobil has made another oil discovery offshore Guyana, this time at Pinktail prospect in the prolific Stabroek Block. The Pinktail well, ExxonMobil said, encountered 220 feet (67 meters) of net pay in high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone reservoirs. Pinktail is located approximately 21.7 miles (35 kilometers) southeast of the Liza Phase 1 development, which... Continue Reading →
Hurricane Ida's damage to U.S. offshore energy production makes it one of the most costly since back-to-back storms in 2005 cut output for months, according to the latest data and historical records. Ida's 150 mile-per-hour (240 kph) winds cut most offshore oil and gas production for more than a week and damaged platforms and onshore... Continue Reading →
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is weighing whether to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees and firing those who refuse to comply, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The oil major outlined a case for "selective vaccine mandates" initially at offshore and other remote locations, where staff live and work, and where World Health Organization-approved vaccines were available,... Continue Reading →
Remotely operated vehicles specialist ROVOP has appointed Daniel Wheeler as its new President for the Americas, to lead the company in Houston as it prepares for its next phase of growth in the region both in oil and gas and in the emerging offshore wind sector there. "The growth comes on the back of a... Continue Reading →
