(Reuters, Erwin Seba, Jessica Resnick-Ault, 28.Jan.2019) — Chevron Corp has agreed to buy a Texas oil refinery with a troubled past and space to handle a coming flow of shale...
(Petrobras, 28.Jan.2019) — Petrobras reports that yesterday (01/27), there was a fire in the storage area of materials used in oil exploration and production activities, located in the Intermodal Terminal...
(WoodMac, 25.Jan.2019) — CNOOC Ltd announced its strategic plan for 2019, setting a bullish tone for the rest of the Chinese national oil companies to follow. Wood Mackenzie’s senior analyst...
(Petrobras, 25.Jan.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the press release of 08/29/2018, informs that Paulínia Refinery (Replan) has resumed, today, 100% of its nominal production capacity with the return of...
(Siemens Gamesa, 24.Jan.2019) — Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) recently signed its third contract with Voltalia in Brazil to supply the wind project Ventos da Serra do Mel 2 (VSM...
(CF Industries, 24.Jan.2019) — Granular urea, with a 46 percent nitrogen content, is a solid nitrogen fertilizer product. Produced from ammonia and carbon dioxide, it has the highest nitrogen content...
(Reuters, Gram Slattery, 23.Jan.2019) — Petroleo Brasileiro SA has rejected the most recent bid by an EIG Global Energy Partners-backed firm to purchase a pair of shallow-water oil clusters, two...
(Petrobras, 23.Jan.2019) — Petrobras announced that the Administrative Board of Tax Appeals (CARF) issued yesterday, by a majority vote, an unfavorable decision on a tax administrative proceeding that addresses the...
(Oilfield Technology, David Bizley, 23.Jan.2019) — Petrobras and PDVSA are the top spenders among all oil and gas companies in South America, in terms of new build capital expenditure (CAPEX)...
(Bloomberg, Vinícius Andrade, 22.Jan.2019) — For investors looking to get in on the equity boom in Brazil via commodity titans Vale or Petrobras, JPMorgan has some ideas about the best...
(Petrobras, 21.Jan.2019) — Petrobras announced it received a communication from its controlling shareholder with the appointment of the Professor Nivio Ziviani to exercise the position of member of its Board...
(Wood Mackenzie, 21.Jan.2019) — Upstream dealmakers start 2019 facing an uphill battle. Volatile oil prices and bearish equity markets impede deal flow by creating uncertainty, widening the bid-ask spread, altering...
(Spectrum, 10.Jan.2019) — Spectrum is commencing a large 3D seismic survey in the Potiguar basin offshore the Equatorial Margins of Brazil. This survey comprises 10,700 square km covering blocks that...
(Rystad, 17.Jan.2019) — While Hamlet’s famous ‘to be or not to be’ questioned the existential, E&P’s will look to answer more concrete questions this year when evaluating projects for sanctioning....
(Reuters, 17.Jan.2019) — Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras on Thursday said it had lost an appeal in a Brazilian tax court and will have to pay an additional 1.5 billion...
(Petrobras, 17.Jan.2019) — Petrobras announces that the Administrative Board of Tax Appeals (CARF) issued today, by a casting vote, an unfavorable decision on a tax administrative proceeding that addresses the...
(Petrobras, 17.Jan.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the Material Facts disclosed on 07/03/2018, announced its Executive Board decided to resume the competitive processes for the sale of a 90% stake...
(Petrobras, 16.Jan.2019) — Petrobras informs that it received a letter from Mr. John Milne Albuquerque Forman resigning from his nomination, by the controlling shareholder, to be a member of the...
(Alvopetro, 15.Jan.2019) — Alvopetro Energy Ltd. announces that its common shares are now trading on the OTCQX® Best Market, a U.S. market operated by OTC Markets Group (OTCQX: OTCM), under...
(Petrobras, 15.Jan.2019) — Petrobras reports that in 2018, its total production of oil and gas, including natural gas liquids (NGL), was 2.63 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed),...
(Ocean Infinity, 15.Jan.2019) — Ocean Infinity, the next generation seabed survey and ocean exploration company, is pleased to announce that its partner, Cepemais, the Brazilian offshore consulting company, has been...
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2019) — Petrobras formally expressed to the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) interest to exercise the pre-emption right for the 6th Bidding Round of exploration blocks under the production...
(Reuters, 14.Jan.2019) — Brazil’s government on Monday nominated three new board members for state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.SA) (Petrobras), amid accusations that new CEO Roberto Castello Branco was...
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2019) — Petrobras informs that it has received communication from its controlling shareholder, as assured by Petrobras By-Laws and Brazilian legislation, with the nomination of three new members to...
(Petrobras, 14.Jan.2019) — Petrobras, following the press released on Dec. 20, 2018, informs that the injunction rendered by Minister Marco Aurélio Mello on December 19, (ADI No. 5942), was suspended...
(Reuters, 14.Jan.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) said on Monday that it will restart publishing divestiture opportunities, following a Supreme Court ruling that temporarily allows the...
(Reuters, Brad Brooks, 11.Jan.2019) — Commodities trader Trafigura has refused a judge’s order to hand over the email archives of two former executives in Brazil who are facing corruption charges...
(Petrobras, 10.Jan.2019) — Petrobras, following the Press Release of Oct. 30, 2018, announces that it is initiating the leasing process of the fertilizer plants located in Sergipe (Fafen-SE) and in...
(Petrobras, 10.Jan.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the press release of Jan. 4, 2019 and Jan. 7, 2019, informs that its Board of Directors approved the dismissals of Mrs. Solange...
(Petrobras, 8.Jan.2019) — Petrobras clarifies, on news published in the press, on an eventual agreement related to the Revision process of the Transfer of Rights Agreement that: Since November 2017,...
(Petrobras, 7.Jan.2019) — Petrobras, in addition to the press release disclosed on January 4, 2019, informs that its CEO Roberto da Cunha Castello Branco, finalizing the changes proposed in his...
(Petrobras, 7.Jan.2019) — Petrobras announced the final results of its previously announced debt tender offers. As of 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on January 4, 2019 (the “Expiration Date”)...
(Petrobras, 7.Jan.2019) — Petrobras reports the actions taken as a result of the oil leak that occurred on January 2 in one of the tanks of the FPSO Cidade de...
(Reuters, 7.Jan.2019) — Brazil's Economy Ministry denied that the government would pay $14 billion to state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to settle a dispute over an oil-producing zone off...
(Foreign Policy, Lisa Viscidi and Nate Graham, 4.Jan.2019) — This coming November, delegates from nearly every country had been scheduled to gather in Brazil to discuss climate change at the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 4.Jan.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Bolivia seeking natural gas deal with Peru, YPFB and Camacari inking deal...
(Petrobras. 4.Jan.2019) — Petrobras, in addition to the Material Fact published on December 21, 2018, informs that its CEO Roberto da Cunha Castello Branco, within the scope of the nomination...
(Reuters, Gram Slattery, 3.Jan.2019) — Brazil’s PetroRio SA and Australia’s Karoon Energy Ltd are among the bidders for a mature shallow water oilfield owned by Petroleo Brasileiro SA, according to...
(Reuters, Marta Nogueira and Rodrigo Viga Gaier, 3.Jan.2019) — Brazilian officials on Thursday predicted a quick resolution to a dispute with Petroleo Brasileiro SA over offshore oil blocks and doubled...
(Reuters, Gram Slattery, 3.Jan.2019) — Depending on who you ask, Roberto Castello Branco, the new chief executive of Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA, will either save the indebted oil major -...
(Kallanish Energy, 3.Jan.2019) — Bolivian left-wing autocrat President Evo Morales congratulated and welcomed Brazil’s far-right populist President, Jair Bolsonaro, while attending the latter’s swearing-in ceremony in Brazil Tuesday. Despite their...
(Petrobras, 2.Jan.2019) — Petrobras reports that yesterday, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Luiz Nelson Guedes de Carvalho, and Board member, Mr. Francisco Petros Oliveira Lima Papathanasiadis, presented...
(Cosan Limited, 31.Dec.2018) — Cosan Limited announced preliminary results of its tender offer to purchase up to U.S.$100,000,000 of its Class A common shares, or the shares, at (i) prices...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart and Ian Silverman, 31.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Colombia’s first long-term power auction; the reach of Bolivia’s natural gas reserves;...
(Petrobras, 27.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, in addition to the material facts disclosed on 10/14/2016 and 06/30/17, informs that its Executive Board approved, yesterday, a complementary protection mechanism, aiming to give additional...
(Petrobras, 27.Dec.2018) — Petrobras announced that in November its total production of oil and gas, including natural gas liquids (NGL), was 2.62 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed),...
(Petrobras, 26.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, further to the Material Fact published on December 18, 2018, hereby informs that it submitted to the CVM, on this date, the request for registration of...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 23.Dec.2018) — Shell Brasil signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) related to the commercialization of Bolivian natural gas in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman and Piero Stewart, 21.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on YPFB’s estimated value after nationalization; a potential nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium plant...
(Petrobras, 21.Dec.2018) — Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors approved the dismissal, on 12/31/2018, of Mr. Ivan de Souza Monteiro of the position of the company’s CEO. In view...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 21.Dec.2018) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs on Argentina’s renewable energy sector, Maurel & Prom’s acquisition of Shell’s interest in the Urdaneta West...
(Reuters, 20.Dec.2018) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA has suspended oil and refined products trading with Vitol, the company said in a statement to Reuters. Petrobras, as the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 21.Dec.2018) — Executives with Bolivia's Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) and Brazil’s Ambar Energía signed a Memorandum of Understanding to execute projects for the supply...
(Petrobras, 21.Dec.2018) — Petrobras reports that yesterday it signed with the French company Total new documents related to the strategic partnership between the two companies announced on 03/01/2017. In the...
(Ecopetrol, 21.Dec.2018) — Ecopetrol S.A. closed a deal with companies of the Shell and Chevron groups, which will allow it to expand its stake in Brazil’s Pre-Salt Region. The agreement...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Dec.2018) — ExxonMobil was named 2018 Large Cap Company of the Year and Explorer of the Year by the World Oil and Gas Council in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 20.Dec.2018) — Irving, Texas-based ExxonMobil announced a recap of some of its most important activities during the year in the Latin America and Caribbean region,...
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2018) — Petrobras announced early results of its previously announced debt tender offers. As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on December 19, 2018 (the “Early Tender Deadline”)...
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media on the injunction rendered on December 19, 2018 by Minister Marco Aurélio Mello, in a declaratory action...
(Petrobras, 20.Dec.2018) — Petrobras announced that in December it pre-paid bank debts and contracted new financing, according to the tables below. The operations are in line with the company's liability...
(Atlas, 19.Dec.2018) — Atlas Renewable Energy has won one of the Bonds & Loans Latin America Awards 2019, in the category of Structured Bond Deal of the Year. Following more...
(Speedcast, 19.Dec.2018) — Speedcast International Limited announced its Brazilian entity SC Caprock has extended its relationship with one of its leading global Energy customers, with a new multi-year contract extension...
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2018) — Petrobras announced its Board of Directors approved in a meeting held today, to submit for the analysis of the Secretariat for the Coordination and Governance of State-Owned...
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2018) — Petrobras reports that its Board of Directors approved in a meeting held today, the advance distribution of earnings to shareholders as Interest on Capital (IOC), as defined...
(Petrobras, 18.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, in compliance with the provisions of Instruction no. 358 of January 3, 2002, issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM), hereby informs that...
(JA Solar, 18.Dec.2018) — JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., a world-leading manufacturer of high-performance photovoltaic products, announced that it will supply all bifacial mono PERC double glass modules for SolarGrid’s...
(Reuters, Marta Nogueira, 17.Dec.2018) — Brazil’s National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) in a meeting on Monday approved the sixth-round auction for the country’s pre-salt offshore oil area to be...
(Reuters, Brad Brooks, 14.Dec.2018) — Brazilian federal prosecutors on Friday filed corruption charges against two former executives of the oil trader Trafigura for allegedly paying at least $1.5 million in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 14.Dec.2018) — Petrobras said the average subsidized price of diesel to be utilized by the company at its refineries and terminals will be R$ 1.8115...
(Petrobras, 13.Dec.2018) — Petrobras received from its controlling shareholder a letter with the appointment of the economist Roberto da Cunha Castello Branco to serve as President of the company and...
(Reuters, Brad Brooks, Julia Payne, 13.Dec.2018) — Brazil’s epic “Car Wash” corruption investigation has taken down presidents and elite businessmen, and led to the largest corporate leniency deal ever signed....
(Reuters, 10.Dec.2018) — At least 60,000 liters (377 barrels) of oil spilled into Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay and a nearby river over the weekend after an attempted robbery on...
(Petrobras, 10.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, further to the material fact of10/08/2018, announces the beginning of the non-binding phase related to the sale of its entire equity share in three onshore production...
(Reuters, 8.Dec.2018) — Brazil’s incoming mines and energy minister, Bento Albuquerque, supports more nuclear and wind power development to diversify the country’s energy matrix, while saying hydro power had reached...
(Petrobras, 6.Dec.2018) — Petrobras, in compliance with article 12 of CVM Instruction no. 358, dated of 1/3/2002, was notified by BlackRock, Inc. that the latter has acquired preferred shares issued...