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Petrobras has the approval of the Brazilian antitrust agency for the sale of its Landulpho Alves (RLAM) refinery, in Bahia, to Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign fund of the Abu Dhabi government. The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) approved the transaction without restrictions, according to a publication in the Federal Official Gazette this Wednesday... Continue Reading →
(TNPetroleo) After the unsuccessful attempt to auction off the production surpluses from the Sépia and Atapu pre-salt blocks, on November 6, 2019, the government decided to carry out a broad change in the parameters that guide the supply of these areas. Either directly, through the significant reduction of government participation in the revenue that will... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oil prices continued to rally on Wednesday on signs of strong fuel demand in western economies, while the prospect of Iranian supplies returning faded as the U.S. secretary of state said sanctions against Tehran were unlikely to be lifted. Brent crude futures were up 44 cents, or 0.6%, at $72.66 a barrel at 1338... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil has completed the sale of its Dussafu Marin permit asset in Gabon to Oslo-listed Panoro Energy. Tullow Oil said on Wednesday that it had already received a payment of $39 million for the Dussafu asset earlier in the day as well as a $5 million contingent consideration relating to... Continue Reading →
(H2Tech) Air Products and Baker Hughes are collaborating to develop next-generation hydrogen compression to lower the cost of production and accelerate the adoption of hydrogen as a zero-carbon fuel. As part of the collaboration, Baker Hughes will provide Air Products with advanced hydrogen compression and gas turbine technology for global projects, including NovaLT16 turbines for Air Products’... Continue Reading →
Oil major ExxonMobil has made a new discovery at Longtail-3 well located in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, using the Stena DrillMAX drillship. Drilling at Longtail-3 encountered 230 feet (70 meters) of net pay, including newly identified, high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs below the original Longtail-1 discovery intervals, according to ExxonMobil’s statement on Wednesday. The well is... Continue Reading →
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has revitalized 3D data over the Bauna field in southwest Santos Basin and its surrounding area offshore Brazil. This preprocessed dataset is now available for evaluation of blocks for Brazil’s upcoming Permanent Offer Round. The data rejuvenation of legacy survey BM-S-40 started from field tapes and applied the latest workflow for data... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, regarding the piece of news published in the media about the divestment of the Routes 1, 2 and 3 gas pipelines, clarifies that it is untrue that the company has defined the sales model for these assets and the percentages to be sold. Petrobras, as part of its active portfolio... Continue Reading →
Norway's Aker Solutions has signed "a large" framework agreement with Petrobras to provide subsea lifecycle services for Petrobras-operated oil and gas fields offshore Brazil. The agreement has a fixed period of three years and includes an option to extend the contract for two additional years. Aker Solutions defines a large contract as being between NOK... Continue Reading →
Wind power could make it possible to produce hydrogen without emitting greenhouse gases as cheaply as is currently feasible with fossil fuel energy by 2030, turbine maker Siemens Gamesa said in a white paper released on Wednesday. Policymakers see green hydrogen, which is made with renewable power without emitting carbon, as a vital tool to... Continue Reading →
