MONTERREY, MEXICO (By Isaac Silvestre, Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Mar.2026, Words: 199) — Through drilling of an exploration well in the Marlim Sul field, Petrobras said it has identified the presence of excellent-quality oil in the pre-salt of the Campos Basin. Petrobras is the operator of the field with a 100% working […]
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Brava says ANP approves AIP for Jubarte pre-salt shared reserve
SALVADOR, BRAZIL (By Pedro Silva, Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Jul.2025, Words: 171) — Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) approved the production individualization agreement (AIP) for the Jubarte pre-salt shared reserve, located in the Campos Basin. Individualization agreements are applicable in situations where reserves extend beyond the […]
Petrobras announces approval of AIP for the Jubarte pre-salt reservoir by ANP
SALVADOR, BRAZIL (By Pedro Silva, Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Jul.2025, Words: 216) — Petrobras reported that the production individualization agreement (AIP) of the Jubarte pre-salt shared reservoir, located in the Campos Basin, has been approved by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels (ANP). The Jubarte reservoir includes the […]
FPSO Almirante Tamandaré Comes Online in the Pre-Salt Santos Basin
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Feb.2025) — The floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Almirante Tamandaré (Búzios 7) — with production potential up to 225,000 barrels of oil per day (b/d) and processing potential of 12 million cubic meters of gas daily (MMcm/d) — started production […]
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HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Dec.2024) — Energy Analytics Institute‘s Southern Cone NRG Dashboard 4Q:24 with upstream, downstream, midstream, liquefied natural gas (LNG), renewable, new energies and other updates from Argentina (planned LNG projects, plans in the prolific Vaca Muerta shale play), Bolivia, Brazil (pre-salt and floating production, […]
Baker Hughes to Supply Petrobras with Flexible Pipe Systems
(Energy Analytics Institute, 28.Oct.2024) — Baker Hughes signed significant contracts with Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras to provide 77 km of flexible pipe systems to be deployed in Brazil’s pre-salt fields. The companies inked the agreements on 15 Oct. 2024, following an open tender. The multi-year project includes risers and flowlines for […]
FPSO Maria Quitéria Starts Operating in Campos Basin
(Petrobras, 15.Oct.2024) — The Maria Quitéria platform ship produced its first oil on 15 Oct. 2024 in the Jubarte field, pre-salt in the Espírito Santo portion of the Campos Basin. The unit can produce up to 100,000 barrels of oil a day and process up to 5 million cubic meters […]
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Petrobras: Highlights on 4Q:22 Production, Sales [PDF Download]
(Petrobras, 8.Feb.2023) — Petrobras commented on its production and sales in 4Q;22 and 2022. “In 2022, we delivered an excellent operational performance, meeting all production targets for the year, with the following marks recorded: In 2022, we achieved an annual record in operated production, with an average of 3.64 MMboed. […]
Petrobras Highlights 2Q:21 Output, Sales
(Petrobras, 22.Jul.2021) — In 2Q21, Petrobras continued to operate safely and had a solid operating performance, despite the persistence of the pandemic scenario. The average production of oil, NGL and natural gas reached 2.80 MMboed, 1.1% above 1Q21, due to the continued ramp-up of platforms P-68 (Berbigão and Sururu fields) […]
Petrobras Inks Itapu Coparticipation Deal
(Petrobras, 12.Jul.2021) — Petrobras signed with Pré-sal Petróleo S.A. (PPSA) the Itapu Coparticipation Agreement, which will regulate the coexistence of the Transfer of Rights Contract (ToR) and the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for the Suplus of the Transfer of Rights for the Itapu field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt area. […]
Brazil May Gas Production Up From Year, Month Prior
(Argus, 18.Jun.2021) — Brazilian natural gas production in May rose by nearly 18pc from a year earlier and by more than 2pc from the prior month. Output reached 134mn m³/d (4.75 Bcf/d) in May, preliminary data from Brazil’s oil and gas regulator ANP shows. The country’s record production level set […]
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 report. South America Argentina We have more than 178 thousand net mineral acres in the Vaca Muerta Basin, a liquids- […]
Petrobras Reports Record Production In 2020
(Petrobras, 7.Jan.2021) — Petrobras registered records in its 2020 annual oil production and total annual production (oil and gas) of, respectively, 2.28 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil and 2.84 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed). The previous records occurred in 2015 and were 2.23 million bpd […]
Equinor Awards Bacalhau Drilling Contracts
(Equinor, 10.Nov.2020) — Equinor has, on behalf of the partners ExxonMobil and Petrogal Brasil, awarded Baker Hughes, Halliburton and Schlumberger contracts for drilling and well services on the Bacalhau field in Brazil. The total value of the three contracts is estimated at $455mn. The contracts have a firm period of […]
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 value of the E&P portfolio, focusing on world-class assets in deep and ultra-deep waters. The portfolio revision is in line […]
Total Launches Mero Field 3 FPSO Development
(Total, 17.Aug.2020) — Total and its partners have taken the investment decision for the third phase of the Mero project (Libra block), located deep offshore, 180 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in the prolific pre-salt area of the Santos Basin. The Mero 3 FPSO, Floating Production Storage […]
Petrobras Inks Charter Deal For Mero 3 FPSO
(Petrobras, 14.Aug.2020) — Petrobras signed a letter of intent with the company MISC Berhad for the chartering and services for FPSO (floating production storage and offloading unit) Marechal Duque de Caxias to be installed in the Mero field, belonging to the Libra Block, in Santos Basin pre-salt, as part of […]
Petrobras Reports Record July Búzios Production
(Petrobras, 5.Aug.2020) — Petrobras reports platforms (P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77) installed in the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, reached new monthly production records in July, of 615,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) and 765,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed). The Búzios field, discovered in […]
Petrobras Awards Saipem $325mn Buzios Subsea Deal
(Saipem, 6.Jul.2020) — Saipem has been awarded a contract by Petrobras for the installation of a rigid riser-based subsea system to serve the Búzios pre-salt project, in water depths from 1537 to 2190 meters, offshore the state of Rio de Janeiro. The Búzios-5 overall production system foresees the interconnection of […]
Petrobras Eyes LNG Units For Pre-salt Gas
(Reuters, 3.Jul.2020) — Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras is considering installing offshore units to liquefy the growing natural gas production from the so-called pre-salt area, the company’s emissions and climate change manager said during a webinar on Friday. Liquefied natural gas units could be an alternative for the gas associated […]
Supermajors Are Flocking To This Booming Oil Frontier
(Oilprice.com, 30.Jun.2020) — Exxon is moving to rapidly expand its exploration footprint in this little-known venue, French Total SA is spudding its first well here, small-cap Eco Atlantic – of offshore Guyana fame – is stepping up offshore activity, and onshore, fellow junior Recon Africa is hoping to be sitting […]
Petrobras Says Buzios Oil Field Achieved New Record
(Reuters, 29.Jun.2020) — Brazil’s Petrobras said that its platforms P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77 located in the deepwater Buzios oil field, the largest in the world, achieved record production levels on June 27, totalling 664,000 bpd and 822,000 boed. The oil company said it sold 764,000 cubic meters of diesel […]
Petrobras Starts Production In Atapu Pre-salt
(Petrobras, 25.Jun.2020) — Petrobras reports that it started today the production of oil and natural gas from the shared deposit of Atapu, through platform P-70, in the eastern portion of the Santos Basin pre-salt, near the Búzios field. The Atapu shared deposit, which comprises the fields Oeste de Atapu, Atapu […]
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 pandemic scuttled the firm’s plans earlier in the year. Volumes exported in May were up 10pc compared with the previous […]
Petrobras Starts EWT At Albacora Field
(Petrobras, 17.May.2020) — Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 11 May 2020, informs that it started yesterday the Extended Well Tests (EWT) in the Discovery Assessment Plan (DAP) of Forno, in the Albacora field, located in the Campos Basin pre-salt. The test is being carried out in […]
Petrobras Warns Economy Has Changed Forever
(Reuters, 15.May.2020) — Brazil’s Petrobras took a 65.3 billion real ($11.2 billion) impairment on its exploration and production assets on Thursday, warning investors that changes in consumer behavior resulting from the coronavirus pandemic would likely be permanent. The impairment led Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the firm is formally known, to […]
Petrobras On Equalizations In Lula, Atapu and Sépia
(Petrobras, 13.May.2020) — Petrobras, regarding the press releases disclosed on 18 March 2019 and 11 September 2019, which announced the approval of Production Individualization Agreements (AIP) of the Lula, Atapu and Sépia joint reservoirs, in Rio de Janeiro, informs that it executed Expenses and Volume Equalization Agreements (AEGV) with the […]
Oil Drop Could Cut 20% Off Exploration Budgets
(Reuters, 17.Mar.2020) — The recent collapse in oil prices could chop $300 million to $600 million off 2020 exploration budgets in Brazil, which has emerged as one of the world’s hottest offshore oil plays, specialists at consultancy Wood Mackenzie told Reuters. Before oil prices collapsed in the wake of failed […]
Petrobras Hits New Production Record
(Reuters, 10.Feb.2020) — Brazil’s Petrobras hit a new production record in the fourth quarter, of over 3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), thanks largely to the ramp-up of platforms in the prolific pre-salt formation, the state-run oil firm said. In a securities filing, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as […]
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 figure for organic investment. The plan approved by the Board of Directors, which prioritizes opportunities under strict capital discipline, is […]
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 oil and natural gas production at the P-68 floating production, storage, and offloading unit (FPSO), located in BM-S-11A Concession in […]
Don’t Count On Oil To Reignite Latin America
(Project Syndicate, Mauricio Cárdenas, 5.Nov.2019) — Some regard Latin America as the world’s new oil frontier, and think that the region could potentially add three million barrels per day to global output during the next decade. But, although Brazil is well placed to ramp up production, Mexico and Venezuela seem […]
Petrobras, Brazil’s Gov’t Near Marketing Deal
(Reuters, Gram Slattery, Marta Nogueira, 22.Oct.2019) — Brazil’s Petrobras could take over marketing of the government’s share of crude from offshore oilfields, a government official told Reuters, adding significantly to the state-run oil firm’s trading operations. In an interview on Monday, the head of Pre-Salt Petroleum, better known by its […]
Ecopetrol Buys Into Gato do Mato Discovery
(Ecopetrol, 21.Oct.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. reports that its subsidiary Ecopetrol Óleo e Gás do Brasil Ltda has entered into an agreement with Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. to acquire 30% of the interests, rights and obligations in two areas corresponding to the BM-S-54 Concession Agreement and the Sul de Gato do […]
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, a key milestone for the enormous offshore region known as TOR – the ‘transfer-of-rights’ area. The bidders who win exploration […]
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: — Block S-M-766: Chevron holds an operating 40% interest in this block located in the Santos Basin, along with partners […]
Pre-salt E&P May See Spending Boost
(WoodMac, 6.Aug.2019) — Brazil’s natural gas market reforms have taken a major step forward, with plans in place which are set to open up opportunities across the gas value chain, and boost investment in the country’s pre-salt. Last month, the National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) unveiled its roadmap for […]
Petrobras Reports Modest Output Growth
(Reuters, Ana Mano and Gram Slattery, 26.Jul.2019) — Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA posted a modest production boost in the second quarter, but failed to live up to market expectations, sending shares down over 2% in morning trade. In an early Friday securities filing, Petrobras, as the firm […]
Brazil, Bolsonaro And Oil: A Future In The Balance
(The National, Robin Mills, 11.Nov.2018) — New president may make unpleasant listening but he says he wants to open up the country’s energy industry, which would be a good thing. New Brazilian president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, who takes office in January, has been labelled bad for the environment, human […]
Royal Dutch Shell Provides 3Q:18 Highlights For Brazil And Argentina
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 2.Nov.2018) — Royal Dutch Shell provided an update related to portfolio developments in Brazil and Argentina during the third quarter 2018. Third Quarter 2018 Portfolio Developments Upstream During the quarter, Shell and its partner Chevron won a 35-year production-sharing contract for the Saturno pre-salt block […]
Petrobras Stops Chevron Plan To Drill In Brazil Offshore Block: Sources
(Reuters, Alexandra Alper, Marta Nogueira, 30.Oct.2018) — A decision by Petrobras not to invest in drilling new wells has derailed Chevron Corp’s plan to resume exploration in a Brazilian offshore field, people familiar with the matter said. Chevron, which operates the field with a 52 percent stake, approved the drilling […]
Petrobras Fires Up New Platform In Offshore Lula Field
(Reuters, 24.Oct.2018) — State-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro said on Wednesday it had started production on its eighth platform in the offshore Lula field, Brazil’s most productive, as it ramps up output from the Santos basin in the coveted pre-salt oil play. Platform 69 will be able to produce up […]
Aker Solutions Wins Subsea Order for Libra’s Mero Field Offshore Brazil
(Aker Solutions, 5.Oct.2018) — Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Petrobras to provide a subsea production system and related services for the Mero 1 project within the Mero field development, one of the largest oil discoveries in Brazil’s pre-salt area. The subsea production system will consist of 12 vertical […]
ExxonMobil Grabs Additional Acreage in Brazil’s 5th Pre-Salt Bid Round
(ExxonMobil, 28.Sep.2018) — Irving, Texas-based ExxonMobil increased its holdings in Brazil’s pre-salt basins after it won the Titã exploration block with co-venturer Qatar Petroleum during Brazil’s 5th pre-salt bid round. The block awarded added more than 71,500 net acres to the ExxonMobil portfolio, expanding the company’s total position in the […]