Brazil
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April 03, 2018
TGS announces the Brazil Southern basins SeaSeep Project in the Campos and Santos Basins, offshore Brazil. The project will cover existing TGS surveys in these hydrocarbon rich basins as well as the highly prospective pre-salt trend where many untested structures exist.
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April 03, 2018
Wintershall is continuing its growth course and has now been awarded exploration licenses in Brazil. In its 15th bidding round, Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) has awarded interests in seven licenses to Germany's largest internationally active oil and gas producer
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April 02, 2018
ExxonMobil has increased its holdings in Brazil’s pre-salt basins after winning eight additional exploration blocks during Brazil’s 15th bid round.
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March 30, 2018
Shell Brasil Petroleo, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), today won four additional deep-water exploration blocks in the Campos and Potiguar basins, bringing its total operated presence offshore Brazil to 18 blocks.
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March 29, 2018
Statoil and partners were the high bidders for four blocks in the Campos basin in Brazil’s 15th licensing round held on March 29. With the new licenses, Statoil strengthens its position in Brazil and increases synergies with current projects.
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March 27, 2018
As the global natural gas trade expands amid a boom in supplies from the U.S. to Australia, at least one major energy consumer may be sitting on the sidelines: Brazil.
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March 12, 2018
Petrobras has announced that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage regarding the transfer of Petrobras’ total stake in the Piranema and Piranema Sul fields.
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March 05, 2018
Oil production growth from the United States, Brazil, Canada and Norway can keep the world well supplied, more than meeting global oil demand growth through 2020, but more investment will be needed to boost output after that, according to the International Energy Agency's latest annual report on oil markets.
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February 28, 2018
Petrobras, further to the Material Fact disclosed on July 28, 2017, and press release disclosed on Oct. 4, 2017, informs the start of the binding phase regarding the assignment of all of its exploration, development and production rights in Enchova and Pampo clusters, located in Rio de Janeiro state.
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February 08, 2018
Aker Solutions won a contract to provide maintenance and modifications services for three platforms at Petrobras-operated oil and gas fields offshore Brazil, expanding its business in a key international market.
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December 28, 2017
Petrobras may be making progress in its plan to reduce debt, but a former shareholder in the state-controlled energy giant isn’t ready to jump back in quite yet.
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December 19, 2017
Total announces that it has taken the investment decision for the first large-scale development phase of the Libra project, located deep offshore, 180 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in the pre-salt area of the Santos basin in Brazil.
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December 15, 2017
Petrobras and ExxonMobil have signed a memorandum of understanding regarding a strategic alliance to jointly identify and evaluate potential business opportunities.
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December 13, 2017
Gulf Quest LLC, a joint venture between Quest Offshore and Gulf Publishing Company, is pleased to announce the first edition of the Global Offshore Brazil Summit (GOBS), which will be held June 11-13, 2018 at the Sheraton Grand, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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December 01, 2017
Blackstone Group has teamed up with its Brazilian partner to compete for Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s natural gas pipeline network in the country’s northeast, said people with knowledge of the matter.
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December 01, 2017
Petrobras, as the Operator and acting on behalf of the Libra Consortium, announces that today it submitted the declaration of commerciality to the Brazil’s National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) regarding the oil accumulation located in the northwestern portion of Libra block, in the Pre-salt of the Santos basin.
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November 27, 2017
CNOOC Limited announced today Libra Block in Brazil has already started production.
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November 17, 2017
Petrobras reports that its total oil and natural gas production in October was 2.77 MMboed, with 2.67 MMboed produced in Brazil and 104,000 boed produced abroad.
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November 02, 2017
Petrobras announced that it has signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) with BP to jointly identify and evaluate business opportunities involving assets or ventures in Brazil and abroad, which include cooperation on upstream, downstream, gas transportation and marketing, LNG, oil trading, lubricants, aviation fuel, power generation and distribution, renewables, technology and low carbon initiatives, with the purpose of developing a potential strategic alliance between the companies.
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October 31, 2017
The International Energy Agency and Brazil jointly announced today that the country joined the IEA as an association country, opening new avenues for cooperation towards a more secure and sustainable energy future with Latin America's largest country.
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October 30, 2017
A consortium comprising Qatar Petroleum, Shell, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) was selected as the winning bidder for the Alto de Cabo Frio-Oeste block in the prolific Santos hydrocarbon basin offshore Brazil.
