Tag: Chevron

• Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 21:45 UTC

  Chevron activities picking up pace in Venezuela

  

  The first shipment of Venezuelan crude oil to a US refinery in quite a while is about to set sail, it was reported in Caracas. Oil producer Chevron is to send the oil to its Pascagoula, Mississippi, refinery after obtaining a US license in 2022.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  Chevron buys Noble Energy in a US$ 5 billion all stock deal

  

  Chevron said Monday it would buy Noble Energy in a US$ 5 billion all-stock deal, bolstering its shale presence as a plunge in crude prices have made assets cheaper. The deal, the largest in the U.S. energy sector this year, comes more than a year after Chevron abandoned its offer for Anadarko Petroleum, outmaneuvered by Occidental Petroleum higher bid.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 07:27 UTC

  Brazil eyes a US$1.45 billion payday as big oil flocks to pre-salt

  

  Brazil expects to pocket some US$ 1.45 billion from the sixth round of oil and gas block licensing for the pre-salt zone offshore. Reuters reports, citing the special secretary to the Economy Ministry, Waldery Rodriguez, that the total minimum sum of signing bonuses for all the blocks that will be tendered on November 7th is US$ 1.9 billion.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Brazil's newest oil auction attracting oil majors

  

  Brazil’s newest oil auction is attracting some of the world’s biggest oil majors such as BP, Chevron, CNOOC, ExxonMobil, and Shell, the Brazilian government said on Monday, according to Bloomberg.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Chevron completes purchase of controversial Petrobras refinery in Houston

  

  Chevron Corp completed a US$ 350 million purchase of a refinery in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, Texas, from Brazil’s Petrobras, Chevron said in a statement. The sale was agreed to in January, but Chevron put the transfer of the 112,229-barrel-per-day plant’s ownership on hold on April 2, telling Petrobras it had to prove the refinery would operate as promised.

• Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Chevron will remain in Venezuela in “coordination with US government agencies”

  

  Chevron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth pledged to work closely with the U.S. to remain in Venezuela despite a spiralling crisis that has led rival oil major Total SA to retreat.

• Monday, February 11th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  PDVSA telling customers to deposit oil sales in an account of Russia's Gazprombank

  

  Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA is telling customers of its joint ventures to deposit oil sales proceeds in an account recently opened at Russia's Gazprombank AO, according to sources and an internal document, reported Reuters on Saturday.

• Friday, September 28th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Oil majors to bid for Brazil's offshore potential despite electoral uncertainty

  

  Oil majors are set to gather in Rio de Janeiro this Friday to unveil bids for stakes in Brazil’s high potential offshore areas ahead of elections that are casting a cloud of uncertainty over the industry.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  Argentina plans offshore licensing round in the South Atlantic next October

  

  Argentina plans to launch a delayed offshore licensing round in October as it seeks to explore a large frontier region in the South Atlantic for potential oil and natural gas production growth in the future. This was announced to oil executives in Houston by Argentina's energy secretary Javier Iguacel.

• Monday, September 24th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Petrobras plans to increase output 10% next year to some 2.3 million bpd

  

  Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petrobras aims to raise output as much as 10% to around 2.3 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2019 and cut net debt by US$10 billion, according to Chief Financial Officer Rafael Grisolia. The world’s most indebted oil company is on course to reduce debt to US$ 69 billion by the end of this year despite falling short of its US$ 21 billion asset sales target, Grisolia pointed out.