Petrobras Inks Deal For The 8th Búzios Unit
(Petrobras, 11.Jun.2021) — Petrobras signed a contract with the joint venture formed by Saipem and DSME in the amount of $2.3bn for the supply of P-79, the eighth unit to...
LatAm Briefs: Green Hydrogen In Chile, ANP’s Green Diesel Resolution
(Energy Analytics Institute, 13.May.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Chile approving a first green hydrogen project and Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas...
Petrobras Divests Stake In Rabo Branco Field In Sergipe
(Petrobras, 10.May.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 11 December 2020, signed with Petrom Produção de Petróleo & Gás Ltda. a contract for the sale of its...
LatAm Briefs: Petrobras Swears In CEO, Aker’s Mero 1 Project Update
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Apr.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Petrobras hosting an inauguration or swearing in ceremony for its new CEO Joaquim Silva e...
Petrobras On Partial Return Of Libra Area
(Petrobras, 16.Apr.2021) — Petrobras informs that the consortium of Libra, constituted by Petrobras (40%), in partnership with Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. (20%), Total E&P do Brasil Ltda. (20%), CNODC Brasil...
Petrobras To Boost Natural Gas Price For Distributors
(Petrobras, 5.Apr.2021) — Petrobras informs that as of 1 May 2021, the natural gas sale prices for distributors will increase, by 39% in R$/m3, in relation to the last quarter....
Shell Updates On South American Assets In Annual Report
(Shell, 1.Apr.2021) — Shell provided details in its 2020 annual report related to its operations in South America from Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. What follows is a summary from the...
Brazil’s 1P Reserves Decline In 2020
(Energy Analytics Institute, 31.Mar.2021) — Brazil’s crude oil and natural gas reserves fell in 2020 across 1P, 2P and 3P categories, according to details published by the country’s National Agency...
Petrobras Inks Deal For Sale Of Miranga Cluster
(Petrobras, 24.Feb.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 04/03/2018, signed today with SPE Miranga S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of PetroRecôncavo S.A., a contract for the sale...
ANP: Petrobras Shakeup Will Not Change Refinery Policy
(Reuters, 22.Feb.2021) — Brazil’s oil sector regulator ANP does not see President Jair Bolsonaro’s appointment of a new Petrobras CEO altering the country’s policy of opening up the domestic refinery...
Brazil’s Production Reaches 3.525 MMboe/d In Dec. 2020
(Energy Analytics Institute, 2.Feb.2021) — Brazil’s production of both crude oil and natural gas reached 3.525 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (MMboe/d) in December 2020, according to Brazil’s...
Brazil Eyes Oil Industry Reforms To Lure Investors
(S&P Global, 31.Dec.2020) — Brazil needs to continue making important oil industry reforms in 2021 to remain as one of the world's top destinations for investments amid heated global competition...
Petrobras Inks Deal To Sell Onshore Fields In Bahia
(Petrobras, 23.Dec.2020) — Petrobras informs that it signed today with Petrorecôncavo S.A. a contract for the assignment of its entire stake in 12 onshore exploration and production fields, denominated Remanso...
ANP Board Agrees To Maintain Covid-19 Protocols
(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Dec.2020) — The ANP Board approved on 17 December 2020 a resolution to maintain temporary safety measures and protocols to deal with the emergency that has arisen...
Brazil Removes 32 Sensitive, Offshore Blocks From Round
(S&P Global Platts, 11.Dec.2020) — Brazil's National Energy Policy Council, or CNPE, dealt a sharp blow to the country's offshore exploration and production program by removing 32 high potential but...
Petrobras Inks Deal To Divest Onshore Sergipe Field
(Petrobras, 11.Dec.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 01/03/20, informs that it signed today with Energizzi Energias do Brasil Ltda a contract for the sale of its...
Brazil’s ANP To Hold 2nd Permanent Bid Round
(Energy Analytics Institute, 12.Nov.2020) — Brazil’s National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP by its Portuguese acronym) will hold its second permanent bid round where it will offer 14...
Petrobras Cuts Natural Gas Price For Distributors
(Petrobras, 4.Nov.2020) — Petrobras has readjusted, on 1 November 2020, the sales prices of natural gas for distributors for the contracts started in January. The adjustments occurred according to parameters...
ANP To Temporary Reduce Biodiesel Mixture To 11%
(Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Oct.2020) — The ANP Collegiate Board approved on 7 October 2020 the exceptional and temporary reduction of the mandatory mixture of biodiesel-to-diesel oil to 11% from 12%...
Brazil Updates Biodiesel Auction Details
(Energy Analytics Institute, 7.Oct.2020) — An updated schedule for the 76th Biodiesel Auction has been published on the auction page on the website of Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural...
Karoon Provides Update On Baúna Acquisition
(Karoon Energy, 5.Oct.2020) — Karoon Energy Ltd provided the market with the following update on the status of the Baúna asset acquisition: -- Remaining Conditions Precedent: As previously announced, transaction...
Brazil’s Output Reaches 3.927 MMboe/d In August 2020
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2020) — Brazil’s combined production of crude oil and natural gas reached 3.927 million barrels of equivalent oil per day (MMboe/d) in August 2020, according to details...
Petrobras Grabs Assets From Total E&P do Brasil LTDA
(Petrobras, 28.Sep.2020) — Petrobras signed an agreement on 25 September 2020, under which Total E&P do Brasil LTDA will transfer to Petrobras the operatorship and working interest on the following...
Petrobras Prepares For Competitive Markets
(Petrobras, 18.Sep.2020) — Petrobras launched two programs aimed at preparing its refining and natural gas activities for an open, competitive market and to transition into a low carbon economy. Biorefino...
Petrobras Cuts E&P CAPEX To $40-$50bn From $64bn
(Petrobras, 14.Sep.2020) — Petrobras reports on the revision of the Exploration & Production (E&P) segment portfolio in face of the crisis caused by COVID-19. The revision aims to maximize the...
Petrobras On Binding Phase For Santos Basin Assets
(Petrobras, 8.Sep.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the release from 10 August 2020, informs the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale of 50% to 100% of its stake,...
Total Resigns Operator Role In Foz Do Amazonas Basin
(Total, 7.Sep.2020) — Total notified its partners on 19 August 2020 about its resignation from its role of operator for five exploration blocks, located in the Foz do Amazonas Basin,...
Petrobras Releases Santos Basin Teaser
(Petrobras, 10.Aug.2020) — Petrobras informs that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage (teaser), referring to the sale of 50% to 100% of its stake in the BM-S-51 concession with...
Petrobras On Measures In Aviation Gasoline
(Petrobras, 11.Jul.2020) — Petrobras informs that it has decided, preventively, to interrupt supplying a specific imported batch of aviation gasoline after tests carried out at its research center (Cenpes). The...
Petrobras Decommissions P-12 Platform
(Petrobras, 7.Jul.2020) — Petrobras informs that, after approval by the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA)...
Brazil’s PPSA Issues Pre-salt Oil Share Data
(Argus, 11.Jun.2020) — Brazil's state-owned pre-salt marketing firm PPSA took around 17pc of crude from three production-sharing contracts in April, according to monthly data published by the firm for the...
Petrobras Hits New Fuel Oil Export Record
(Argus, 8.Jun.2020) — Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras exported a record 1.11mn t of fuel oil in May, marking a return to the company's focus on higher-margin fuel exports after the Covid-19...
Petrobras Eyes Restart Oil Ships Hit By Coronavirus
(Reuters, 17.Apr.2020) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras plans to restart operations in the coming days at two ships used in offshore oil production that suffered coronavirus outbreaks, an executive...
Brazil Battles Coronavirus Cases On Offshore Rigs
(Reuters, 14.Apr.2020) — There have been 126 confirmed cases of the coronavirus among oil and gas workers in Brazil, including 74 people who were recently on offshore oil platforms, regulator...
Petrobras Projects Lower April Output
(Argus, 7.Apr.2020) — Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras is projecting 2.07mn b/d of domestic oil production in April, down by 69,000 b/d from its last confirmed output level in February. The company...
Petrobras Cuts Brazil Oil Output By 9pc
(Argus, 1.Apr.2020) — Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras has doubled production cuts to 200,000 b/d in response to the oil price collapse. The expanded shut-ins are equivalent to just over 9pc of...
Petrobras Inks Deal To Sell Onshore Tucano Basin Fields
(Petrobras, 9.Mar.2020) — Petrobras signed an agreement with Eagle Exploração de Óleo e Gás Ltda. for the sale of 100% of its stakes in four onshore fields, located in the...
Brazil Oil Strike Drags Into Second Week
(S&P Global Platts, 10.Feb.2020) — A indefinite strike by oil workers in Brazil is dragging on despite local labor court rulings classifying the work action as politically motivated and ordering...
Brazil Breaks Oil Production Record
(Oilprice.com, 23.Jan.2020) — Brazil produced more than 1 billion barrels last year, the first time it has breached the 1-billion-barrel mark, Reuters reports, citing the country’s oil regulator, ANP. The...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
TOR Record R$70bn Bonuses
(ANP, 6.Nov.2019) — The Transfer of Rights Surplus Bidding Round, held today (November 6) by ANP, had two of the four areas on offer acquired (Búzios and Itapu), generating R$...
Petrobras Takes Prize In Brazil’s TOR Round
(WoodMac, 6.Nov.2019) — Brazil’s largest-ever auction of oil licences – the Transfer of Rights round – saw state-controlled Petrobras walk away with the biggest prizes, the Búzios and Itapu blocks....
Field Narrows As Brazil Oil Auction Nears
(Reuters, Gram Slattery and Marta Nogueira, 5.Nov.2019) — As Brazil approaches the biggest oil auction in its history — and one of the world's most expensive ever — the field...
Brazil’s $50bn Oil Boom Is Falling Apart
(Oilprice.com Julianne Geiger, 31.Oct.2019) — Exxon may not be interested in stepping up to the bidding plate at Brazil’s massive $50 billion transfer of rights auction next week, because the...
Petrobras On Amendment To TOR Deal
(Petrobras, 31.Oct.2019) — Petrobras in addition to the press release issued on October 23, 2019, reports that the signing of the Amendment to the Transfer of Rights Agreement was postponed...
World’s Hottest Oil Auction Set To Bring In $50bn
(Oilprice.com, Julianne Geiger, 21.Oct.2019) — Brazil’s next oil auction, scheduled for November, may be the best one yet, raking in as much as $50 billion in auction proceeds, Bloomberg sources...
Petrobras Informs About Provisioning
(Petrobras, 18.Oct.2019) — Petrobras informs that, within its ongoing process of contingencies assessment, it will provision R$ 3.2 billion as a result of: (i) litigation involving the company Sete Brasil,...
OTC Brasil Holds Its 5th Conference Next Week
(OTC Brasil, 17.Oct.2019) — Organized by the Brazilian Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute (IBP) and the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the 5th edition of OTC Brasil takes place 29–31 October...
How Brazil’s $26bn TOR Auction Works
(Reuters, Gram Slattery and Marta Nogueira, 16.Oct.2019) — Brazil’s Senate passed the main text of a bill defining the distribution of proceeds from a blockbuster auction of oil prospecting rights,...
ANP Sets Dates For TOR And 6th Production Round
(ANP, 11.Oct.2019) — Brazil’s Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels (ANP) announced the dates for the next two bid rounds. The ANP’s bid round calendar includes two...
Qatar Petroleum Wins Three Blocks Offshore Brazil
(QP, 10.Oct.2019) — Qatar Petroleum has won exploration rights in three offshore blocks in Brazil, as part of two bidding consortia. The winning bids were announced by Brazil’s National Agency...
Petrobras Grabs One Block In 16th ANP Bidding Round
(Petrobras, 10.Oct.2019) — Petrobras acquired one offshore block in the 16th ANP Bidding Round under the Concession Regime, held by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP)....
Chevron Grabs 5 Blocks In ANP’s 16th Bid Round
(Chevron, 10.Oct.2019) — Chevron Brasil welcomes the results of Brazil’s 16th Bid Round. We are pleased to be part of the following five successful consortia, including two as the operator: ...
ANP 16th Round Attracts Record R$8.9bn Signings
(ANP, 10.Oct.2019) — The 16th Bidding Round collected R$ 8.9 billions in signature bonuses, a record value among the concession rounds already held in Brazil. The round will generate investments...
Brazil’s ANP Eyes Two Bid Rounds In 2020
(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 2.Oct.2019) — Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) plans to conduct two bid rounds in 2020 to offer areas containing billions of barrels of oil and...
Petrobras Inks Deal Onshore Fields In The Potiguar Basin
(Petrobras, 30.Sep.2019) — Petrobras signed with the company Central Resources do Brasil Produção de Petróleo Ltda. contracts for the sale of all its stake in the onshore fields of Ponta...
BP Comes Up Empty Offshore Exploration Hotspot
(Bloomberg, Peter Millard and Kelly Gilblom, 30.Sep.2019) — It was supposed to be BP’s big Brazilian breakthrough after years of setbacks in one of the world’s top destinations for offshore...
Unit Serving Petrobras Halted Due To Regulatory Issues
(Reuters, 23.Sep.2019) — An oil production unit supporting the operations of Brazilian state-controlled oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA has been paralyzed since Sept. 19 due to regulatory issues, the operator,...
Brazil Oil Output Rises 7% To 2.77 MMb/d In July-ANP
(Reuters, 2.Sep.2019) — Brazilian oil production increased to 2.77 million barrels per day (bpd) on average in July, up 7% from a year earlier, local oil and fuels regulator ANP...
BW Offshore Gets ANH Approval For Maromba Field
(BW Offshore, 17.Aug.2019) — BW Offshore (BWO) announced The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) has granted BW Offshore status as operator in Brazil and approved...
Brazil Sees Oil Output Shrink Over Three Months
(The Rio Times, Richard Mann, 3.Aug.2019) — Oil production in the country dropped 6.4 percent from May to June after rising in the first months of the current year. According...
Brazil Approves Transfer Of Saturno Stake To Ecopetrol
(Ecopetrol, 18.Jul.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. said the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil has authorized the transfer of a 10% stake in the Saturno block, located in the Santos...
ANP 16th Bid Rounds: Mitigating Sky-high Bonuses
(WoodMac, 6.Jun.2019) — After three highly competitive exploration bid rounds in 2018, momentum is building for Brazil's three-round licensing bonanza that starts later this year. While the PSC Round 6...
Petrobras Inks Three Deals To Divest Of Assets Worth US$10.3 Billion
(Petrobras, 25.Apr.2019) — Petrobras informs that today it executed three sale and purchase agreements to sell assets in the total amount of US$ 10.3 billion (about R$ 40 billion). In...
Petrobras Announces Adjustment Of Diesel Sale Price
(Petrobras, 29.Nov.2018) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on October 29, 2018 informs that, due to the methodology established in the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) Resolution no. 743...
Petrobras Updates On Diesel Price Subvention Program
(Petrobras, 29.Oct.2018) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on Sep. 28, 2018, informs that, due to the methodology determined in the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) Resolution nº 743,...