Tag: Foz do Amazonas basin

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  Total denied environmental license to drill at the Amazon basin

  

  Brazilian environmental agency Ibama this week rejected French oil company Total SA’s application for an environmental license to drill in the ecologically sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. It is the fourth time that Ibama has rejected the application and requested additional information.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Drilling near the mouth of the Amazon banned by Brazil's environmental regulator

  

  The public prosecutor’s office in the northern state of Amapá recommended on Wednesday that Brazil’s environmental regulator Ibama deny French major Total a license to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon.

• Wednesday, May 15th 2013 - 06:50 UTC

  BP and Total win exploration rights in virgin waters of Brazil’s Amazon basin

  

  BP and Total, Europe’s biggest oil companies after Shell, won exploration rights in the Amazon basin as Brazil’s first oil auction in five years attracts a record level of bids. Total, based in Paris, gained exploration access to operate five blocks at the Foz do Amazonas basin in northern Brazil together with partners BP and Petrobras, the oil regulator said on Tuesday.