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BEHIND THE NEWS: Why Coelho Filho Decided To Continue as Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy

Redação May 24, 2017

The Minister of Mines and Energy, Fernando Coelho Filho, decided to remain in Michel Temer’s administration, even after the PSB, his political party, decided to withdraw from the coalition and demand the resignation of the…

BRAZIL’S POLITICAL CRISIS: International press roundup

Redação May 22, 2017

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Brazilians around the country staged demonstrations Sunday calling for their president to step down after the supreme court opened an investigation into allegations he endorsed the payment of hush money to a jailed…

INTERNATIONAL PRESS ROUNDUP: Brazilian political crisis

Redação May 19, 2017

The swirling, tumultuous events of this week involving Pres. Temer and prominent lawmakers in corruption charges that are threatening the downfall of his government have been widely and prominently covered in the mainstream international…

14th Bid Round To Be Stricter

Redação Oct 17, 2016

The selection of the offshore areas under study for the National Petroleum Agency’s (ANP) 14th Bid Round scheduled for 2017 is stricter than that offered in the previous round, avoiding areas in the new frontier – offshore…

ANP Analyzes Waiver for Libra FPSO

Redação Sep 9, 2016

Experts from the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) have already begun working on a request by the Libra consortium for a waiver of the local content requirements for the FPSO for the field being put out to tender. The vessel will be…

PetroRio To Drill Two New Wells In Polvo

Redação Aug 12, 2016

PetroRio expects to drill up to two new wells in the Polvo field in the Campos Basin. The information was disclosed by Renato Jerusalmi, the oil company’s finance department manager during a conference call with investors today…

Operation License Requested

Redação Jun 2, 2016

Petrobras has requested an Operating License (OL) for the FPSO Cidade de Caraguatatuba. The vessel will be responsible for production in the Lapa field in the Santos Basin pre-salt area, with start-up scheduled for the second half of…

Cidade de Ilhabela Hits Capacity Peak

Redação May 5, 2016

The FSPO Cidade de Ilhabela, installed in the northern part of the Sapinhoá field in the Santos Basin pre-salt, reached peak capacity production in April, helping the area to hit an average production of 270,000 boepd. The…

Petrobras Charters Prosafe Flotel

Redação Aug 14, 2015

TheFloatel Safe Euros being buit in China Prosafe signed a US$ 164 million contract with Petrobras for a three-year charter of the Safe Eurus flotel, classified by the oil company as Maintenance and Security Unit (UMS). The…

From Water To Wind

Redação Dec 8, 2014

The country with enormously powerful hydroelectric power plants such as Itaipu (14,000 MW) and Tucuruí (8,370 MW) is now facing a totally unforeseen enemy: lack of water. After months of drought, the levels in the reservoirs worry…

Hotlines

Redação Dec 8, 2014

Ibama Ok’s FPSO Ilhabela Brazil’s environmental regulator, Ibama, has issued an operations license to Petrobras for the FPSO Cidade de Ilhabela, which has been cleared to begin production immediately in the Sapinhoá…

Hotlines

Redação Dec 8, 2014

The Most Productive Wind Farms With capacity factors ranging from 67% to 81%, in September the ten most productive wind farms were all located in Ceará state. The highest factor was recorded for Tractebel’s Trairí…

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Apr 25, 2019 - Renews Biz

Iberdrola renewables earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation were up over 13% in the first quarter of 2019, compared with the same period last year. EBITDA stood at €683.6m, while revenue also grew to over €1.1bn – a 5% increase the company said. Iberdrola said the contribution of its renewables businesses in Brazil, Mexico and the UK, as well as the offshore sector – particularly the Wikinger project – were behind the increases. These contributions more than offset lower production in the US and Spain, it added.

Apr 25, 2019 - Financial Times

Roberto Castello Branco, the new chief of Brazilian oil company Petrobras, was thousands of kilometres away from his desk, at a conference in Chicago, when he faced his first crisis. It was a Friday afternoon and Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president, had just announced he would cancel a scheduled increase in the price of diesel. The decision was designed to stave off a potential truckers strike. But it also sent shares in Petrobras into freefall, knocking about US$ 8bn off its market capitalisation. Investors also feared it showed that Brazil was returning to the bad old day of government intervention under a president who freely admits he knows nothing about economics. “It was a blip. We don’t want to return to this past,” said Mr Castello Branco, rebuffing claims of state intervention in his first interview since the market crash.

Apr 25, 2019 - Americas Quarterly

It’s been a lucrative and eventful month at Brazil's state-led oil firm Petrobras. The company raised nearly US$ 20 billion from two big transactions on April 5 and 9, only to see market value fluctuate wildly over concerns about its fuel pricing policy. Investors grew jittery after the government overruled Petrobras’ decision to phase out diesel subsidies, contradicting the ostensibly pro-market tendencies of the Bolsonaro administration. But despite the messy politics of the pricing controversy, observers trying to get a sense of Petrobras’ long-term direction would do well to keep their eyes on that US$ 20 billion.

Apr 25, 2019 - Mercopress

Bolivia is looking at exporting natural gas globally through liquefaction terminals to be built in Argentina, and to buy crude from its southern neighbor, Bolivian President Evo Morales said, a move that would compensate for dwindling sales of its main export to Argentina and Brazil. Morales discussed the plans with his Argentine counterpart, Mauricio Macri, in Buenos Aires, where they also touched on other proposals to widen energy integration. In a press conference, Morales said they agreed that Bolivia's state-owned energy company YPFB “will participate in investments” to build liquefaction terminals to export LNG from Argentina.