(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...
(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, 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, 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...
(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...
(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...
(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$...
(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....
(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...
(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, 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...
(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 $50 billion in auction proceeds, Bloomberg sources...
(Petrobras, 18.Oct.2019) — Petrobras informs that, within its ongoing process of contingencies assessment, it will provision R$ 3.2 billion as a result of: (i) litigation involving the company Sete Brasil,...
(OTC Brasil, 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...
(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, 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...
(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, 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, 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, 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...
(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...
(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...
(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,...
(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, 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...
(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...
(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...
(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, 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, 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, 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,...
(Petrobras, 28.Sep.2018) — Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on Aug. 7, 2018 and Aug. 31, 2018, informs that, due to the methodology established in the National Petroleum Agency...
(Reuters, 24.Sep.2018) — Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Monday that it would cut the average price of gasoline at its refineries by 0.59 percent after pump...
(Petro-Victory Energy Corp., 4.Sep.2018) — Petro-Victory Energy Corp. announced a $1.6 million acquisition of production and working interests in 4 oil fields, comprised of 12,850 gross acres, located within three...
(Argus Media, 30.Aug.2018) — Brazil's National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) will start using prices published by leading global energy and commodities price reporting and news agency...
(TO&GY, 24.Aug.2018) — Offshore midstream company Golar LNG has started the process to acquire an environmental permit for its Terminal Gas Sul (TGS) project in the Brazilian state of Santa...
(Petrobras, 3.Aug.2018) – Petrobras reported net income of R$ 17 billion in the first half of 2018. The positive result was mainly influenced by the increase in international oil prices,...
(Energy Analytics Institute, 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...
(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...
(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, 21.Mar.2017) – Petrobras and its partners are committed to implementing the production sharing agreement (PSA) for the Libra area, executed in 2013 and for which Libra Pilot, the first...
