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(Reuters) - Norway's Equinor (EQNR.OL) and France's TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) have agreed to sell their stakes in Venezuela's onshore Petrocedeno project to a unit of state oil firm PDVSA, which will become the sole owner, Equinor said on Thursday. TotalEnergies separately confirmed the transaction and said it would mean a loss of $1.38 billion for the French company. Prior to... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Europe's top energy companies signalled confidence in a lasting recovery from the pandemic impact by drawing on higher oil prices to boost shareholder returns and reassure investors as they roll out risky climate strategies. After swiftly cutting spending and jobs in response to the unprecedented collapse in energy demand last year, executives from... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on 07/10/2020 and 12/30/2020, informs that it has signed a contract with the company Compass Gás e Energia S.A. (Compass) for the sale of all its stake (51%) in Petrobras Gás S.A. (Gaspetro). The sale value is R$ 2.03 billion, to be paid at... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies and APA Corporation have encountered oil in the Sapakara South-1 well on Block 58 off the coast of Suriname. This announcement follows previous discoveries at Maka Central, Sapakara West, Kwaskwasi, and Keskesi, making it TotalEnergies’ fifth discovery off Suriname. Located four kilometres southeast of the Sapakara West-1 discovery, Sapakara South-1 was drilled in a water depth of about... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that the rating agency S&P Global Ratings (S&P) raised its stand-alone credit profile (intrinsic risk) by one notch, from "bb" to "bb+". The agency affirmed the global scale rating of the company's corporate debt at "BB-", two levels below the stand-alone credit profile, due to Brazil’s sovereign rating cap.... Continue Reading →
Royal Dutch Shell boosted its dividend and launched a $2 billion share buyback program on Thursday after a sharp rise in oil and gas prices drove second-quarter profits to their highest in more than two years. As profits across the industry recovered from last year's pandemic-led collapse in energy demand, peers TotalEnergies and Norway's Equinor... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that, on this date, it became aware of a favorable decision handed down by the Minister Reporter of the Federal Supreme Court, in appeals filed against the decision of the Superior Labor Court on the review of the methodology for calculating the Minimum Compensation Per Level and Working Regime... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - U.S. oil output could take more than four years to reach pre-pandemic levels, oil producer Hess Corp (HES.N) said on Wednesday, sticking to its spending plan despite rising demand to focus on shareholders returns over growth. U.S. crude prices have jumped over 50% this year but in a departure from previous boom cycles, shale producers... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexico's state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on Wednesday reported net profit of $722.5 million in the second quarter, swinging from a loss in the same period last year thanks to higher crude prices and production. The company said the 14.4-billion-pesos profit was due to higher income from international sales, which doubled from... Continue Reading →
One year after the start of production, the Atapu field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, is already among the 10 largest producers in Brazil, having produced in June 111.763 Mboe/d (one thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day ), being 91,881 Mbbl/d (thousand barrels per day) of oil and 3,161 MMm3/d (million cubic meters per... Continue Reading →
