Petrobras Downplays Sale Of BR Distribuidora
(Petrobras, 16.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, with regards to news published in the media, referring to the sale of its stake in BR Distribuidora S.A. (BR), clarifies that the information that a...
Petrobras Starts Espírito Santo Basin Teaser
(Petrobras, 15.Jan.2020) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of its entire stake in two sets of deep-water post-salt offshore concessions, namely Golfinho Cluster and...
Petrobras OKs Mothballing Of Fertilizer Plant
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2020) — Petrobras approved the mothballing of the fertilizer plant of its wholly owned subsidiary Araucária Nitrogenados S.A. (ANSA), located in the state of Paraná. ANSA has been posting...
Petrobras Finalizes PO&GBV Divestment
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated 10/31/2018, reports today that it completed the sale - to Petrovida Holding B.V. (Petrovida) - of the 50% equity interest...
YPFB To Use Gasbol Pipeline Independently
(Reuters, 10.Jan.2020) — The Brazilian government authorized Bolivian oil and gas company YPFB to use the Gasbol pipeline to sell gas to other companies in Brazil beyond state-run oil firm...
Mitsubishi, Patria, And Shell Report On Azul Power Plant
(MHPS, 7.Jan.2020) — Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas (MHPS), Patria Investments, and Shell announced the signing of a contract with Brazil’s State-owned development bank (BNDES) to finance the gas-powered Marlim...
Mann+Hummel Sells Mann+Hummel Fluid Brasil
(Mann+Hummel, 6.Jan.2020) — On 31 December 2019, the former CEO of Mann+Hummel Fluid Brasil, Luis Guilherme Pozzani da Rocha, officially signed the 100 percent purchase document of the company. The...
Petrobras Comments On Public BNDES Share Offering
(Petrobras, 6.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on December 13, 2019, reports that it has received new correspondence from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development...
COSAN Seeks Permits For Alternative Route 4
(S&P Global Platts, 6.Jan.2020) — Brazil sugar and ethanol group Cosan applied for environmental permits to build a second tranche of the Route 4 offshore natural gas export pipeline in...
Brazil Looks To Smooth Impact Of Oil Price Spikes
(Reuters, 6.Jan.2020) — Brazil’s government is working on a policy to reduce the local impact of spikes in international oil prices, officials said on Monday, reviving questions about the state...
Petrobras Informs On Fuel Prices
(Petrobras, 3.Jan.2020) — Petrobras, informs that, due to the latest events in Middle East, it will carry on with its international market monitoring process. The company points out that, according...
Petrobras Says Lins Resigns As Board Member
(Petrobras, 2.Jan.2020) — Petrobras announced that Board Member Clarissa de Araújo Lins presented her resignation as member of the Board of Directors of the company, as well as the Board...
Petrobras On Sale Tartaruga Verde And Module III
(Petrobras, 30.Dec.2019) — Petrobras following up on the press release disclosed on 27 December 2019, reaffirms that the total value of the sale of 50% of exploration and production rights...
Petrobras Inks Gas Deal With YPFB
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 30.Dec.2019) — Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras inked a transition agreement under the natural gas supply agreement (GSA) with its Bolivian counterpart Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales...
Petrobras Names JP Morgan New ADR Depositary Bank
(Petrobras, 30.Dec.2019) — Petrobras announced that JP Morgan Chase will be the new representative of the American Depositary Receipt (ADR) program for its shares traded in the New York Stock...
Petrobras Finalizes Auctions Payments To ANP
(Petrobras, 27.Dec.2019) — Petrobras today made the final payments in the amount of R$ 34.191 billion (thirty four billion one hundred and ninety one million reais), referring to the bidding...
Petrobras Informs About Pbio’s Interest In Bioóleo
(Petrobras, 27.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 20 December 2019, announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Petrobras Biocombustível S.A. (PBio), signed a contract for the sale of...
Brazil’s Output Soars In November: ANP
(S&P Global Platts, 23.Dec.2019) — Brazilian crude and natural gas production soared to a fresh record high in November as oil output topped 3 million b/d for the first time...
Petrobras Announces Binding Phase On E&P Assets
(Petrobras, 23.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 12/03/2019, announces that it has started the binding phase referring to the sale of its interest in two onshore...
Petrobras About Expression Of Interest On E&P Assets
(Petrobras, 23.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 12/16/2019, referring to the sale of its interest in the concession BM-P-2, located in the Pelotas Basin, reports that...
Petrobras Starts Regap Binding Phase
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated on October 4, 2019 informs the beginning of the binding phase related to the sale of Gabriel Passos Refinery (REGAP)...
Petrobras Reveals Teaser For PBio’s Sale Of BSBios
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2019) — Petrobras reports that its wholly owned subsidiary Petrobras Biocombustíveis S.A. (PBio) has started the opportunity disclosure phase (teaser) related to the joint sale of all its shares...
Petrobras On Biofuels Segment Exit Strategy
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2019) — Petrobras reports on divestments in the biofuels segment. The company guideline to exit this segment, announced in 2016, accelerated in 2019 and four important transactions were carried...
British Firms Among Bidders For Petrobras Oilfields
(Reuters, 19.Dec.2019) — Anglo-French firm Perenco, UK-based Trident Energy and Premier Oil Plc are among the companies examining the purchase of a cluster of Petrobras oilfields in Brazil known as...
Braskem Selects CenturyLink For Global Operations
(Braskem, 18.Dec.2019) — Braskem, the largest thermoplastics resins producer in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers in the world, selected global technology provider CenturyLink, Inc. to deliver a global SD-WAN...
Petrobras To Pay Shareholder Remuneration
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2019) — Petrobras announced its Board of Directors, at a meeting held 18 Dec., approved the distribution of anticipated remuneration to shareholders as interest on equity, in the total...
Petrobras Joins Tax Programs
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, under the scope of its ongoing contingency assessment process, decided to join the Programs for Partial Tax Remission and Interest and Fine Reduction on VAT (ICMS)...
Petrobras Seeks Alternatives For Comperj
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2019) — Petrobras has completed the economic feasibility study regarding the completion of the Comperj refinery construction, together with the Chinese company CNPC and its affiliates, under the agreements...
Petrobras Starts Sergipe Alagoas Basin Binding Phase
(Petrobras, 17.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 11/01/2019, started the binding phase referring to the sale of its interest in fifteen onshore exploratory blocks, located in...
Petrobras Announces E&P Asset Binding Phase
(Petrobras, 17.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 11/01/2019, announces that it has started the binding phase referring to the sale of its interest in fifteen onshore...
Atlas Says Fourth Brazilian Plant In Operation
(Atlas, 17.Dec.2019) — Atlas Renewable Energy, a leader in clean energy across Latin America, announces that its fourth project in Brazil, Sertão Solar Barreiras Complex, is fully operational. The plant...
Sinopec, EIG Deliver Bid For Petrobras Refinery
(Reuters, 17.Dec.2019) — China's Sinopec and U.S.-based EIG Global Energy Partners have delivered non-binding offers to buy Brazilian refinery REGAP from state-run oil firm Petrobras, three people with knowledge of...
YPFB Fundamental For Bolivia Gas Supply
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 17.Dec.2019) — Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister Víctor Hugo Zamora said the new team at state oil company YPFB will be fundamental in negotiations related to expansion...
Petrobras Prepays $5bn CDB Loan
(Petrobras, 16.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on August 14, 2019, prepaid a $5 billion loan with China Development Bank (CDB), due in 2027. This prepayment...
Petrobras Starts Pelotas Basin Disclosure Stage
(Petrobras, 16.Dec.2019) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of its interest in the concession BM-P2, located in the Pelotas Basin, in the state of...
BNDES Evaluates Sale Of Its Petrobras Shares
(Petrobras, 13.Dec.2019) — Petrobras received correspondence from Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), in which it communicates the intention to evaluate the sale up to the totality of...
S&P Ups Petrobras’ Global Scale Outlook
(Petrobras, 12.Dec.2019) — Petrobras said rating agency S&P Global Ratings (S&P) raised the company's global scale outlook from stable to positive, and maintained its corporate debt rating at "BB-". Yesterday,...
Petrobras’ Teaser For TAG Stake Divestment
(Petrobras, 11.Dec.2019) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), relating to the sale of its remaining stake (10%) in Transportadora Associada de Gás S.A. (TAG). The teaser, which contains...
Petrobras On TOR Amendment
(Petrobras, 11.Dec.2019) — Petrobras following up on the release dated November 1, 2019, informs that, in alignment with its cash management strategy and in accordance with the provisions of the...
Petrobras Sales Fields In Rio Grande Do Norte
(Petrobras, 9.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 04/25/2019, reports that it has completed today the sale of its entire stake in 34 onshore production fields located...
Petrobras To Lease LNG Regasification Terminal
(Petrobras, 9.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, in accordance with the commitments made through the Agreement, signed with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), on July 8, 2019, informs that it is...
Petrobras To Lease Out LNG Terminal
(Argus, 9.Dec.2019) — Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras has started pre-qualifying bidders for a long-term lease of its 20mn m³/d Bahia LNG import terminal and associated pipeline, opening the company's lock on...
Petrobras Plans $34bn In Dividends
(Bloomberg, Simon Casey and Sabrina Valle, 5.Dec.2019) — Petrobras plans to pay its shareholders $34 billion in dividends over the next five years as it cuts debt and sells assets...
Petrobras May Divest Stakes In Marlim, Papa-Terra
(Reuters, 4.Dec.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras is considering putting additional stakes in significant offshore oilfields up for sale, executives said on Wednesday, as the company continues to aggressively...
Petrobras Host Investor Day In NYC
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 4.Dec.2019) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant Petrobras hosted media and analyst during its annual investor day event in New York City on Dec. 4, which...
Petrobras Discloses Binding Phase For E&P Assets
(Petrobras, 3.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated on 09/30/2019 and 10/15/2019, reports on the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale of its interests in eight...
Petrobras Starts Espírito Santo Basin Teaser
(Petrobras, 3.Dec.2019) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage, referring to the sale of its interest in two onshore exploratory blocks, located in the Espírito Santo Basin. Petrobras holds a...
Petrobras Discloses Teaser In Sergipe-Alagoas Basin
(Petrobras, 2.Dec.2019) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage, referring to the sale of its interest in the onshore fields of Dó-Ré-Mi and Rabo Branco, belonging to the BT-SEAL-13 Concession,...
Petrobras Shares Slip On Production Target
(Reuters, Roberto Samora , 28.Nov.2019 ) — Shares of Brazilian oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA slipped on Thursday after its oil and gas production outlook for next year disappointed analysts,...
Petrobras Inks Deal To Divest Frade Field
(Petrobras, 28.Nov.2019) — Petrobras signed with PetroRio Jaguar Petróleo Ltda., subsidiary of Petro Rio S.A., a contract on 28 Nov. for the sale of 30% stake in the Frade concession,...
Brazil, China, UAE Firms Eying Petrobras Refineries
(Reuters, Tatiana Bautzer and Carolina Mandl, 28.Nov.2019) — Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA has selected four groups for the second round of bidding for four refineries up for...
Petrobras Deal With Acron Group Flops
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 26.Nov.2019) — Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras announced that ongoing negotiations with Acron Group closed without the companies coming to agreement regarding divestment of the...
Equinor Says Brazil ‘Hotspot’ Of Int’l Efforts
(Reuters, 26.Nov.2019) — 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...
Ecopetrol Targets Higher CAPEX In 2020
(Ecopetrol, 25.Nov.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. reported that in 2020 the Ecopetrol Group (GE) plans to invest an expected US$4.5 to US$5.5 billion, 25% to 53% higher than the estimated 2019...
Ex-Petrobras Trader Tells Judge Vitol Bribed Him
(Bloomberg, Sabrina Valle and Andy Hoffman, 25.Nov.2019) — A former Petroleo Brasileiro SA oil trader who went by the code name “Phil Collins” told a Brazilian judge he received bribes...
Petrobras Starts Refinery Binding Phase
(Petrobras, 22.Nov.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated August 30, 2019, informs the beginning of the binding phase regarding the first stage of the sale of refining and...
Petrobras And Proquigel Ink Fertilizer Lease Deal
(Petrobras, 21.Nov.2019) — Petrobras signed with Proquigel Química S.A., a company of Unigel Group, lease agreements of its fertilizer plants in Bahia (Fafen-BA) and Sergipe (Fafen-SE), for the total amount...
Petrobras Inks Deal To Divest Of Liquigás
(Petrobras, 19.Nov.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the press release of November 7, 2019, reports that it has signed today with Copagaz and Nacional Gás Butano a contract for sale...
Petrobras Eyes Deep Offshore Shift In 2020
(Reuters, 19.Nov.2019) — Brazil’s state-owned oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA expects deep offshore areas to account for 88% of its exploration and production activities next year, up from 55% currently,...
Total Reports 1st Oil From Iara Offshore Brazil
(Total, 15.Nov.2019) — France’s Total announced first oil from the Iara license (Block BM-S-11A), located in the deepwater Santos Basin pre-salt. This marks the start-up of the FPSO P-68, the...
GeoPark Announces All-Cash Deal With Amerisur
(GeoPark, 15.Nov.2019) — GeoPark Limited, a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador...
Rosneft Head Sechin Attends BRICS Summit In Brazil
(Rosneft, 15.Nov.2019) — During the visit of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the BRICS summit in Brazil, the Chief Executive Officer of PJSC Rosneft Oil Company...
Shell And Partners Add Pre-salt Production
(Shell, 14.Nov.2019) — New, deep-water production has come online from the Brazilian pre-salt Santos Basin. Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. (Shell Brasil) and its consortium partners today announced the start of...
Brazil To Import More LNG If Bolivia Supply Falters
(Argus, 14.Nov.2019) — Brazil will increase LNG imports if pipeline natural gas supply from Bolivia is interrupted because of political unrest, according to Brazilian hydrocarbons agency ANP. Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras...
Petrobras Discloses Binding Phase For Onshore Fields
(Petrobras, 13.Nov.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release dated 09/13/2019, reports on the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale of its stakes in two onshore concessions, including...
Bolivia Warns Of Force Majeure On Gas Exports
(Argus, 12.Nov.2019) — Bolivia's deepening political crisis is starting to take a toll on its vital hydrocarbons industry. YPFB, Bolivia's state-owned oil and natural gas company, warned Argentina it may...
Petrobras Discloses Teaser For Uruguayan Assets
(Petrobras, 12.Nov.2019) — Petrobras started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser) relating to the sale of its fuel, lubricant and fertilizer distribution business in Uruguay. In this project, the company aims...
Petrobras Delists From Argentine Stock Exchange
(Petrobras, 11.Nov.2019) — Petrobras, following communications disclosed on 08/09/2019, 10/04/2019 and 11/04/2019, reports that it proceeded to the withdrawal of the public offering regime in Argentina and that, therefore, today...
Petrobras Receives Final Offer For Liquigás
(Petrobras, 7.Nov.2019) — Petrobras reports that, as part of the competitive process for divestment of its entire shareholding in Liquigás Distribuidora S.A., the group comprised of Copagaz, Itaúsa and Nacional...
Big Oil Stuns Brazil In Back-to-back Auction Flops
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, Gram Slattery and Marta Nogueira, 7.Nov.2019) — Major global oil firms snubbed a second Brazilian oil auction in a row on Thursday, passing up promising offshore blocks...
Brazil’s Pre-salt Encore Flops
(Argus, 7.Nov.2019) — Brazil's pre-salt auction today mirrored the lackluster results from yesterday's much-hyped Transfer of Rights offer, raising questions about bonus pricing, the appeal of the country's production-sharing terms...
Petrobras Buys Aram Block In 6th PSC Bid Round
(Petrobras, 7.Nov.2019) — Petrobras reports that the consortium in which will be the operator, holding 80% of work interest, in partnership with CNODC Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda. has acquired...
ANP’s 6th Round Gets R$5.05bn Bid
(ANP, 7.Nov.2019) — The 6th Production Sharing Bidding Round, held today (November 7) by ANP, bid the block Aram in the Santos Basin. The Round raised R$ 5.05 billion in...
Brazil’s PSC Round 6 Disappoints
(WoodMac, 7.Nov.2019) — Speaking after this morning’s PSC round, Juliana Miguez, from Wood Mackenzie’s Latin America upstream team, said: “Petrobras has returned to the headlines. One day after it dominated...
Brazil Oil Auction A ‘Total Disaster’
(Bloomberg, Sabrina Valle, Peter Millard, and Luiza Ferraz, 6.Nov.2019) — Brazil’s largest-ever auction of oil deposits flopped, sending the real tumbling, after state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA did most of the...