(Efe, 21.Sep.2018) — Environmentalist Marina Silva said on Friday that if elected next month as Brazil’s president, she will create 2 million jobs through programs to promote use of renewable...
(Reuters, 21.Sep.2018) — Bondholders in Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA have accepted the exchange of about $8.9 billion of unregistered notes for identical paper registered with the U.S....
(Aker Solutions, 18.Sep.2018) — The Campos Basin extends approximately 100,000 square kilometers. The three-year contract is valued at more than BRL 250 million and includes an option for a two-year...
(Reuters, Devika Krishna Kumar, Simon Webb, 17.Sep.2018) — Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petróleo Brasileiro SA aims to raise output as much as 10 percent to around 2.3 million barrels per...
(OilPrice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 17.Sep.2018) — Brazil’s state-run oil firm Petrobras plans to shave another US$10 billion off its huge net debt and increase oil production by as much as 10...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 8.Sep.2018) — Stena Bulk signed a deal to charter two MR tankers to Petrobras. Under the deal, Stena Bulk will charter its MR product tankers...
(Reuters, 6.Sep.2018) — Brazil’s state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA on Thursday unveiled a hedging program for gasoline prices in a bid to boost pricing flexibility and protect its financial...
(Efe, 6.Sep.2018) — Output from Brazil’s most prolific pre-salt field will climb to a peak of 1 million barrels of oil per day in 2019, according to the executive manager...
(Reuters, 6.Sep.2018) — Lifting costs for the Santos basin in Brazil's offshore pre-salt oil play should reach an all time low of $5 per barrel, but the timeline for reaching...
(Petro-Victory Energy Corp., 4.Sep.2018) — Petro-Victory Energy Corp. announced a $1.6 million acquisition of production and working interests in 4 oil fields, comprised of 12,850 gross acres, located within three...
(Argus Media, 30.Aug.2018) — Brazil's National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) will start using prices published by leading global energy and commodities price reporting and news agency...
(Golar LNG, 25.Aug.2018) — Golar Power Limited's affiliate, CELSE, closed a $1.34 billion financing facility for the Sergipe project. On April 19, CELSE, the 50% Golar Power owned project company...
(TO&GY, 24.Aug.2018) — Offshore midstream company Golar LNG has started the process to acquire an environmental permit for its Terminal Gas Sul (TGS) project in the Brazilian state of Santa...
(Reuters, 23.Aug.2018) — A Brazilian auction of rights to develop additional oil-producing areas in the country's so-called transfer-of-rights region is unlikely this year, Brazil's Deputy Mining and Energy Minister Marcio...
(Reuters, 22.Aug.2018) — Brazil's state-run oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA may begin procedures to reopen its largest refinery, closed after an explosion and fire, in 48 hours, Gustavo Marsaioli, a...
(OilPrice.com, Haley Zaremba, 21.Aug.2018) – Brazil’s energy industry seems to be caught in a moment of deep ambivalence--on one side of the issue, they are breaking records in terms of...
(Reuters, 20.Aug.2018) – A director at Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Monday a fire at the company's largest refinery Replan, in the state of São Paulo,...
(Oceaneering International, Inc., 20.Aug.2018) – Marine Production Systems do Brasil Ltda., one of Oceaneering International, Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiaries, has secured a four-year contract with a one-year optional extension period...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 15.Aug.2018) – If all goes off as planned, by 2025, Guyana will be the 5th largest oil producer in the Latin American and Caribbean region....
(Bloomberg, Ezra Fieser, 15.Aug.2018) – Odebrecht SA, the Brazilian construction giant, paid at least $32.5 million in bribes in Colombia -- three times the amount it confessed to almost two...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Pietro D. Pitts, 14.Aug.2018) – The ability to use hydraulic fracturing to tap shale formations, to remotely monitor and manage assets, and use advanced technology to heat...
(TheAndradeStory.com, 13.Aug.2018 – On Thursday (8/9) afternoon, the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia announced two new charges against the former head of the National Infrastructure Agency ("ANI"), Luis...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 9.Aug2018) – The 23rd annual EnerCom conference will take place in the Denver Downtown Westin Hotel on Aug. 19-22, 2018. Companies with exposure to Latin...
(Petrobras, 9.Aug.2018) – Petrobras informs that it has received a return of R$ 1.034 billion through cooperation and leniency agreements signed with individuals and legal entities by the Federal Public...
(Petrobras, 6.Aug.2018) – Petrobras reports that its Board of Directors approved in a meeting held yesterday the distribution of early remuneration to shareholders as Interest on Capital (IOC), as defined...
(Petrobras, 3.Aug.2018) – Petrobras reported net income of R$ 17 billion in the first half of 2018. The positive result was mainly influenced by the increase in international oil prices,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.Aug.2018) – Royal Dutch Shell plc announced the following updates during the first half of 2018. Mexico In the deep-water bid round in Mexico in...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 1.Aug.2018) – Royal Dutch Shell plc offered the following outlook for the third quarter of 2018. Compared with the third quarter 2017, Integrated Gas production...
(World Oil, 31.Jul.2018) – Aberdeen-based inspection technology and service provider for the oil and gas industry, Innospection, Shell Brazil and SENAI CIMATEC technology institute in Salvador, Brazil, have recently signed...
(Energy Voice, David McPhee, 31.Jul.2018) – Watch as Equinor’s Peregrino modules set sail en route to the platform in Brazil to begin Phase 2 of the project. https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/178103/watch-equinor-peregrino-modules-sail-to-brazilian-platform/ The modules...
(Reuters, Florence Tan and Alexandra Alper, 27.Jul.2018) – Brazil’s state-controlled energy company Petrobras plans to push more crude oil to top importer China by marketing a new medium-sweet grade that...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 26.Jul.2018) – Beta data from the EIA provide users with an interactive way to analyze multiple petroleum data. According to the most recent beta crude...
(Reuters, 20.Jul.2018) – Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA said that areas it operates adjacent to the Entorno de Sapinhoá block in the Santos basin are commercially viable, according...
(Reuters, 18.Jul.2018) – Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras will start pumping pre-salt oil from four new platforms between October and December, the company’s director for production and technology development Hugo...
(UPI, Daniel J. Graeber, 18.Jul.2018) – A renewable energy division of French supermajor Total said Wednesday it was moving forward with new solar power developments in Brazil. Total in September...
(Reuters, Marta Nogueira, 17.Jul.2018) – Oil production by Brazilian state-led Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the Campos basin fell 1.4 percent in June over the previous month to 1.042 million barrels...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 12.Jul.2018) – Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin America and the Caribbean fell for a third straight year in 2017, reported the Economic Commission for...
(Rystad, 11.Jul.2018) — Despite the huge potential from pre-salt basins, Brazil still needs gas imports to cover domestic demand in the next decade. Brazil is forecasted to produce 47 Bcm...
(Efe, 4.Jul.2018) – Brazilian state oil company Petrobras and China's state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation signed a letter of intent to conclude construction of a refinery in Rio de Janeiro,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 30.Jun.2018) – The company was awarded two areas that total 2,560 kilometers of transmission lines, and substations with transformation capacity of 12,230 mega-volt amperes. The...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Jun.2018) – Watch the Inter-American Dialogue debate, Energy Policy in Brazil: What’s Next for Upstream, Refining and LNG. *** https://youtu.be/vhJz0bRfDYQ
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Jun.2018) – "Brazil's oil production could reach 5.5 million barrels per day by 2027," ANP General Director Décio Oddone, said during a debate hosted by...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 29.Jun.2018) – "Today Brazil is the most competitive in all of deepwater and ultra-deepwater,” José Firmo, Brazilian Petroleum Institute, said during a debate hosted by...
(Reuters, 29.Jun.2018) – India’s Sterlite, China’s State Grid, and Colombia’s Isa clinched licenses to build power transmission lines in Brazil in a government auction on Thursday that is expected to...
(Renewables Now, 28.Jun.2018) – Energias de Portugal SA (ELI:EDP) announced on Thursday it has become the first to use blockchain technology to measure and record energy consumption and distributed generation...
(RioTimes, Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter, 28.Jun.2018) – ANEEL (Electric Energy Regulator) in Brazil will conduct the first energy transmission auction of the year on Thursday (June 28th) with twenty...
(Petrobras, 27.Jun.2018) – Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors, at a meeting held today, appointed the engineer Rafael Salvador Grisolia to the position of Chief Financial and Investor Relations...
(BHP Billiton, 26.Jun.2018) – On 2 March 2016, Samarco Mineração S.A., Vale S.A., BHP Billiton Brasil Ltda (the Companies), and the Federal Government of Brazil, the Brazilian states of Espirito...
(Petrobras, 25.Jun.2018) – Petrobras started production of Tartaruga Verde field, in deep waters of Campos Basin, by means of FPSO Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes. The FPSO is located about...
(Reuters, 21.Jun.2018) – Brazil's top labor court ruled in favor of workers at Brazil's state-controlled oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro in a wage spat that could cost the world's most indebted...
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 20.Jun.2018) – While oil industry analysts and market participants are watching Venezuela closely for clues about how low its oil production will go, several other countries in...
(Denis Chabrol, DemeraraWaves, 12.Jun.2018) – ExxonMobil on Tuesday reconfirmed that Guyana will pump up its first barrel of oil in March 2020, even as the Guyana government continued to fend...
(Reuters, 9.Jun.2018) -- US oil producer Chevron Corp permanently assigned its Brazil country chief to run its Venezuelan operations, three sources said this week, after the months-long detention of two...
(Efe, 7.Jun.2018) – Brazil raised 3.15 billion reais (around $830 million) in fixed signing bonuses on Thursday in its fourth auction of oil blocks in a deepwater region of the...
(ExxonMobil, 7.Jun.2018) – ExxonMobil has increased its holdings in Brazil’s pre-salt basins after winning the Uirapuru exploration block with co-venturers Equinor and Petrogal Brasil during Brazil’s 4th pre-salt bid round....
(Efe, 6.Jun.2018) – Brazil’s Electricity Sector Monitoring Committee (CMSE) announced special operational measures to ensure that the country will not have problems with its energy supply during the 2018 World...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 5.Jun.2018) – Ivan de Souza Monteiro is the new president of Petrobras. Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras announced controlling shareholder informed the company of the...
(Al Jazeera, Daniel Schweimler, 2.Jun.2018) – Pedro Parente's resignation was one of the demands of striking workers due to worries that he was going to privatise Brazil's share of the...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 1.Jun.2018) – Pedro Parente resigned as CEO of Petrobras. In an official statement, Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras confirmed Mr. Parente had resigned his position...
(Efe, 30.May.2018) – Brazilian oil workers defied a court order on Wednesday by launching a three-day strike affecting oil refineries. The FUP, a federation that assembles most of Brazil’s oil...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 24.May.2018) – Energy Analytics Institute, formerly LatinPetroleum Inc., continues to promote its “Energy Education Initiative” in the Americas, also known as “NRG ED.” NRG ED...
(Reuters, Tatiana Bautzer & Carolina Mandl, 24.May.2018) – A surprise decision by Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to cut diesel prices in response to truckers' protests is worrying...
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 1.May.2018) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, also known as ECLAC or CEPAL by its Spanish acronym, projects economic...
(Golar LNG, 19.Apr.2018) — Golar LNG Limited announce that Golar Power Limited, a joint venture with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, has reached financial closing on the 1.5GW Porto de Sergipe I...
(Rystad, 11.Mar.2018) — South American production is currently on a decreasing trend driven by large declines in Venezuela that are partially offset by supply additions in Brazil. As a result...
(MHPS, 14.Feb.2018) — Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) celebrated its first win in Brazil for the technical selection of its M501 JAC Gas Turbine for the Vale Azul II Project....
(Energía16, 30.Nov.2017) — Bolivia began exporting granulated urea to Brazil. Approximately 65 percent of the country’s urea production comes from YPFB’s Bulo Bulo plant, in Cochamba. Bolivia’s first delivery will...
(PanAmPost, Karina Martin, 13.Sep.2017) — On Thursday, September 14, the Ammonia and Urea Plant of the state-owned Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) will be inaugurated in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in one...
(Petrobras, 1.Apr.2017) – Petrobras announced that, on March 30, 2017, Consortium BM-S-11 received a notice of violation issued by the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP), relating to...
(Petrobras, 30.Mar.2017) – Platform is now at Brasfels shipyard in Angra dos Reis On March 28, the hull of floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) P-69 arrived at the...
(Petrobras, 30.Mar.2017) – Petrobras, in continuation to the material facts of 10/6/2016, 12/20/2016, and 3/15/2017 and to the press release of 11/21/2016, clarifies that it has notified the Federal Supreme...
(Petrobras, 27.Mar.2017) – Petrobras, as stated in Circular Letter CVM/SEP/01/2017, reported that it has received a request for the replacement of the substitute candidate to the Fiscal Council (FC) nominated...
(Petrobras, 27.Mar.2017) – Petrobras informed that the Extraordinary General Shareholders Meeting, held in the Auditorium of the company's headquarters on Avenida Republic of Chile nº 65-1st floor, in the city...
(Petrobras, 27.Mar.2017) – Petrobras reports that in the meeting held yesterday Petrobras' Board of Directors approved the reelection of CEO Pedro Pullen Parente for a two-year term in the company's...
(Petrobras, 27.Mar.2017) – Petrobras, in continuation to the material fact disclosed on December 28, 2016, informed that, the Shareholders’ Extraordinary General Meeting approved the sale of 100% of the shares...