Tag: Antonio Brufau

• Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 06:06 UTC

  Repsol makes first shipment from offshore gas field in the Gulf of Venezuela

  

  The first shipment to onshore facilities has been made from the offshore gas field discovered in 2009 in the Gulf of Venezuela by Spain's Repsol and Italy's Eni, Venezuelan officials said.President Nicolas Maduro called the arrival of the gas a “historic” event during a ceremony on Saturday to mark the completion of the first shipment.

• Wednesday, June 4th 2014 - 08:58 UTC

  Mexico's Pemex sells its majority stake in Repsol over management disputes

  

  Mexico's state-owned oil giant Pemex has sold the majority of its stake in Spanish energy firm Repsol for approximately 2.2bn Euros with the intervention of Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Pemex has been a shareholder in Repsol for more than 25 years.

• Saturday, May 3rd 2014 - 06:11 UTC

  Cristina's YPF curse: Brufau steps down as CEO of Repsol

  

  Repsol, the Spanish oil company, announced this week that its longstanding executive chairman, Antonio Brufau, would hand over the job of chief executive to Josu Jon Imaz San Miguel, who has been running the company’s upstream operations.

• Saturday, March 29th 2014 - 05:29 UTC

  Repsol infighting reveals disappointment with CEO Brufau

  

  Shareholders of Spain's Repsol approved the oil major's 5 billion dollars settlement with Argentina over the 2012 seizure of YPF at an annual meeting on Friday. The agreement had already been approved by the Argentine Congress and by the board of the Spanish company.

• Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 05:50 UTC

  Spain's Repsol signs 1.2bn dollars financing deal with Venezuela's PDVSA

  

  Repsol signed a financing deal Friday with Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA that calls for the Spanish energy major to invest 1.2 billion dollars to boost the output of the companies' Petroquiriquire joint venture.

• Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 22:51 UTC

  Repsol contracts Deutsche Bank as advisor for the YPF compensation deal

  

  Repsol appointed Deutsche Bank AG to advise it on the compensation pre-settlement it reached with Argentina regarding the seizure of 51% of YPF in April 2012. The arrangement was negotiated in Buenos Aires this week by ministers from Argentina and Spain, Repsol executives, and representatives from the Spanish company’s two largest shareholders, Mexico's Petroleos Mexicanos, Pemex and Barcelona-based CaixaBank SA.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2013 - 07:19 UTC

  Repsol expands 70% a natural gas processing plant capacity in Bolivia

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales and the chairman and CEO of Spanish energy major Repsol, Antonio Brufau, inaugurated the newly expanded Margarita natural gas processing plant, with a capacity increased of nearly 70%.

• Monday, June 3rd 2013 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentina and Repsol in another clash: this time over board members payments

  

  Argentina's nationalized energy company YPF will sue the head of Repsol SA over accusations that YPF's board members were overpaid when the Spanish oil major held a majority stake in the company, the government said.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 17:00 UTC

  Singapore wealth fund boosts Spain’s Repsol, recovering from YPF nationalization

  

  Singapore wealth fund Temasak has bought a 5% stake in Spanish oil group Repsol for just over one billion Euros, raising its total stake in the company to 6.3%, Repsol said in a release. The operation involves the entire portfolio of Repsol treasury stock at 16.01 Euros per share for a total of 1.036 billion Euros (1.35bn dollars).

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 08:03 UTC

  World Bank’s arbitration unit receives Repsol’s complaint over YPF nationalization

  

  The World Bank's arbitration unit has agreed to hear a complaint by Spanish oil firm Repsol over Argentina's nationalization of the company's former energy affiliate YPF.