Tag: pre-salt auction

• 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.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 06:54 UTC

  Petrobras to receive US$ 9.058bn following agreement with the government

  

  The Brazilian government reached a landmark deal to pay state-controlled oil company Petrobras SA US$9.058 billion for revising a transfer-of-rights oil contract, Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:22 UTC

  BP, Shell, Total to bid in Brazil's pre-salt auction

  

  Brazil’s oil regulator ANP has approved the applications of six companies—including Big Oil’s BP, Shell, and Total—to bid in next month’s oil auction of four blocks in the coveted pre-salt layer, ANP announced on Wednesday.