Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY – Brazil increased crude exports to Asia in the first half of the year, stealing a slice of a coveted developing market from global rivals who made record cuts to shipments to match the unprecedented fall in demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The rise reflects Brazil’s growing clout among global oil producers as its
Reuters BRASILIA – Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras said on Monday it exported a record 1 million barrels of oil a day in April, beating the previous record of 771,000 barrels a day in December last year. In a securities filing, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the firm is formally known, said that marked an increase of 145% over the same
LNG World News Brazil’s state-controlled oil and gas company Petrobras has started a process to lease its Bahia regasification LNG terminal and its integrated pipeline in northeast Brazil. Petrobras said on Monday that the start of the terminal lease process began following an agreement signed with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense. According to the company, the prequalification procedure of
Reuters OSLO – Norway’s Equinor plans to drill 30-40 oil and gas exploration wells globally in 2020, similar this year, with Brazil being a “hotspot” of its international efforts, the company’s exploration head said on Tuesday. The company will drill about 20-30 exploration wells on the Norwegian continental shelf, focusing on the North Sea, plus wells at the Johan Castberg
Source: Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – When executives arrive in Rio de Janeiro this week for Brazil’s biennial Offshore Technology Conference, they will find themselves in Latin America’s most promising market for Big Oil by far. That marks a dramatic change from only a year ago. In early October 2018, Brazil’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, was in
Source: Reuters BP Plc, Chevron Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are among the companies that will compete for exploration and production rights off the Brazilian coast on Thursday, in the first of three oil bidding rounds scheduled for coming weeks. Combined, the minimum signing bonuses for the blocks in the so-called 16th post-salt oil bidding round in the Latin
From World Oil Repsol Sinopec Brazil, Ouro Negro and the Mechanical Engineering Department of PUC-Rio’s Technical and Scientific Center (CTC/PUC-Rio) are expanding their technological partnership, developing a through tubing logging profiling tool to assess cement quality in lined wells. “The proposal is to have a tool that enables the detection of cement anomalies in the adjacent layer and not only
From Reuters Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA sold its entire oil hedge position amid a sharp fall in crude prices, the company said in a filing on Wednesday night, saying it has eliminated uncertainties regarding its cash flow thanks in part to divestments. Petrobras, as the state-run company is known, said in March it was spending $320 million on put options,
By Tyler Losier, Energy Reporter, Oil & Gas 360 Icahn Enterprises closes sale of Ferrous Resources to Vale S.A. for $550 million Icahn Enterprises L.P. (stock ticker: IEP), a conglomerate company owned by American investor Carl Icahn, has closed on its previously announced sale of Ferrous Resources Limited to Brazilian mining company Vale S.A. for a total consideration of $550
From Reuters Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA has relinquished control of the country’s biggest fuel distributor in a share offering, pushing ahead with a privatization drive under new Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco. The offering of Petrobras Distribuidora SA was priced at 24.50 reais per share, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Final pricing implied
From Reuters Brazil’s government will free up a total of 42 billion reais ($11.1 billion) from a workers’ guarantee fund over the next two years, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Tuesday, in an effort to boost flagging economic growth. The total from the FGTS fund will be split between around 30 billion reais this year and 12 billion reais
From Reuters Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA is set to relinquish control of the country’s biggest fuel distributor in a share offering due to be priced late on Tuesday, pushing ahead with a privatization drive under new Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco. Each of Branco’s three predecessors discussed privatizing Petrobras Distribuidora SA. The share offering of the gas
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