Brazilian government controlled oil and gas corporation Petrobras announced the discovery of a new high-quality crude deposit in ultra-deep waters off Brazil’s south-eastern coast.
Environmentalists in New Zealand asked the government to halt an offshore oil exploration project being conducted for Brazilian oil giant Petrobras in the wake of the deaths of dozens of penguins, the press reported.
Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil producer will export its first cargo from the country’s second-largest crude field to Chile in mid-May.
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras suspended an offshore survey Sunday in New Zealand after several environmental activists jumped into the water to block the passage of the ship conducting the study, reports the NZ press.
The United States must pay more importance to its strategic alliance with Brazil if it really wants to benefit from Petrobras’ recently discovered deep-water oil and natural gas reserves in the Atlantic Ocean, the company’s CEO, Jose Sergio Gabrielli, said.
The US government's export credit agency has authorized $3 billion in financing for Brazil, including 2 billion US dollars for the Brazilian government-managed oil company Petrobras.
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras has withdrawn from an offshore oil exploration block in Cuba's waters that it leased amid great fanfare in 2008, a Brazilian official said on Thursday, citing poor prospects.
Bolivia's state-owned oil company YPF Bolivianos said this week that it has signed oil and gas exploration agreements with Brazil's Petrobras and Spain's Repsol.
Latin America's biggest company, Brazilian state-managed oil giant Petrobras, on Friday said it raked in a record net profit last year of 20 billion US dollars. That figure for 2010 was 17% higher than its profit for 2009 company executives told a news conference in Rio de Janeiro.
China's Sinopec Corp said it planned to participate in Brazil's next oil and gas bidding rounds, which should be resumed after the passage of a reform of the country's oil law expected this year.