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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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.
