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(Reuters) - Global energy trader Vitol suffered an $85 billion fall in revenue last year, but its profits were boosted as trading plays offset the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on oil demand and prices. Many traders benefited in 2020 from extreme oil price volatility and storage opportunities. In April last year, U.S. light sweet... Continue Reading →
Italian oil and gas company Eni has made a new light oil discovery in Block 15/06, which is located in Angola’s deep offshore. Eni expects to start production from the well within six months through a fast-track tie-in to the Armada Olombendo FPSO. Eni said in an update on Tuesday that the well has been... Continue Reading →
The move by the OPEC+ group of oil exporters to ease their output restrictions from May onwards is effectively a bet that the current soft demand for crude will improve at the same pace as production returns. If history is a guide, it will be extremely difficult to get that balance correct, especially in the... Continue Reading →
XP analysts (NASDAQ: XP) reduced the maximum price estimate for the sale of six Petrobras refineries (SA: PETR4) by U$ 5.7 billion, when reviewing their calculations after the Landulpho Alves Refinery (Rlam), was sold for less than market expectations. In the new calculation, which considers some risks related to fuel prices for future refinery owners,... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras announces that today it signed agreements with BP Energy do Brasil Ltda (BP) to take over BP's entire stakes in six blocks, located in ultra-deep water in northern Brazil, approximately 120 km from the state of Amapá, in a high-potential exploratory frontier on the Brazilian equatorial margin. The six blocks... Continue Reading →
Europe's biggest utilities Enel and Iberdrola saw the clean energy transition coming decades ago when others baulked at the high cost of producing energy from the sun and wind and instead stuck with coal and oil. Thanks to early decisions to buy power grids and build renewable plants, the once-staid utilities are now among a... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil on Tuesday said it was starting a multi-year, multi-well drilling campaign offshore Ghana. The campaign started with the start of drilling of the first well at the Jubilee offshore field on Monday. Maersk Drilling's Maersk Venturer drillship is expected to drill four wells in total in 2021, consisting of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) -Energy group BP said on Tuesday it expects to have hit its $35 billion net debt target in the first quarter of this year, sooner than expected and paving the way for it to deliver on its promise of buying back shares. “This is a result of earlier than anticipated delivery of disposal proceeds... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on January 7, 2021, informs that today it finalized the joint sale with Wobben Windpower Indústria e Comércio Ltda (Wobben) of all its stakes (51% Wobben and 49% Petrobras) in the companies Eólica Mangue Seco 3 - Geradora e Comercializadora de Energia Elétrica S.A. (Eólica... Continue Reading →
Companies interested in joining Routes 1, 2 and 3, pre-salt gas pipelines responsible for connecting the largest pre salt fields in the cluster off the coast of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, should remain on hold. Petrobras abandons IPO strategy due to simpler modeling, but operation may still be postponed to 2022. Source: PetroleoHoje
