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
GeoPark Announces Second Quarter 2019 Operational Update
FPSO Mero 2 expected to produce 180,000 BOPD SBM Offshore N.V., a holding company headquartered in Amsterdam, signed a letter of intent this week with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for a 22.5-year lease to operate its floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Mero 2. FPSO Mero 2 will be deployed at the Mero field in the Santos Basin, located
From Bloomberg Petrobras is expected to receive more than $18 billion from a mixture of government and private sources as payment for oil reserves, people familiar with the matter said, potentially resolving a dispute that has dragged on since 2013. Brazil’s government anticipates that companies seeking to join in deep-water oil projects would need to pay Petrobras more than $9 billion,
From Bloomberg EIG Global Energy Partners plans to bid for Petrobras’s TAG natural gas pipeline network as the Brazilian oil giant is giving bidders just another three weeks to raise their offers. The state-run company released details on the leading offer to the other two competing groups, and they’ll have until April 2 to come up with final bids, EIG
From Bloomberg There’s enough as-yet-unassigned oil under the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro to keep the entire world running for almost six months. So why is the crude just sitting there? A contract dispute between oil giant Petrobras and the government has been dragging on since 2013, and until it’s resolved, drillers can’t start targeting those deep-water deposits.
From Bloomberg When the giant P-67 floating oil production vessel lit its flare tower earlier this month, it marked the start of a Brazilian supply boom that’s poised to challenge OPEC’s efforts to balance the global market. The mammoth facility — long and wide enough to fit an American football field — is the first of four similar platforms to begin pumping crude this
Shell And Partners Start Deep-Water Production At Lula North In Brazil
From Reuters Common shares in state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA rose almost 4 percent on Monday after a newspaper said the government had settled on the amount it will pay the firm to settle a dispute over an oil-producing zone known as the transfer-of-rights area. Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico said the government had planned to pay Petrobras, as the
