Renewables, oil and gas, mining, and manufacturing took the lion’s share of Chinese investments in Brazil in 2024, a new report by the Brazil-China Business Council, CEBC, showed this week.
PRIO SA, Brava Energia and BW Energy Ltd are considering buying Petroliam Nasional Berhad’s stake in the Brazilian oil field Tartaruga Verde to expand in Latin America’s largest producing country, according to people familiar with the matter.
BP, which announces its half-year results on Tuesday, said last month that it would sell its share in 10 US onshore windfarms to the New York-headquartered LS Power. On Monday it launched its 50:50 offshore wind joint venture with the Japanese wind company Jera worth up to £4.5bn, which it plans to use to gain some access to zero-carbon wind energy developments while focusing on fossil fuels.
For the first time, the IBP study consolidates the various revenue sources generated by the sector, including ICMS, government takes (royalties and special participations), signature bonuses, the Federal Government’s profit-oil under production sharing contracts, and general federal taxes such as PIS/Cofins, CSLL, and Corporate Income Tax (IRPJ), all of which apply across the value chain.
“This collaboration marks an exciting first step by IEC to evaluate world-class opportunities beyond Indonesia in Brazil, a market that has become one of the most attractive for upstream investment,” said Frank Ingriselli, IEC’s President. “Working with Blener Mayhew and his team will give us immediate local insight and access. In addition to opportunities in Brazil, AEP may also assist us in further commercializing our Indonesian assets and identifying new Indonesian domestic growth projects. Together with our planned drilling program at our Kruh Block, this initiative advances our growth strategy to scale production and diversify our portfolio in the final months of 2025 and beyond.”
DOF Group ASA is a global offshore services company headquartered in Norway, providing integrated subsea services through its fleet of advanced offshore vessels, ROV systems and engineering capabilities. The company operates across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and North Sea regions, servicing clients in subsea construction, inspection, maintenance and repair.
Despite returning to a profit for the second quarter of the year, Petrobras dashed hopes of an extraordinary dividend for this year amid lower oil prices and higher investments into production expansion.
Petrobras’ efforts to increase oil and gas production are bearing fruit. Petrobras produced 2.7 million barrels of oil equivalent in the second quarter of the year, which represented a 2.4% increase as the company ramped up production at five platforms and started 12 new wells, of which eight in the Campos Basin and four in the Santos Basin.
Chief Executive Officer Murray Auchincloss reset BP’s strategy in February by promising to refocus on oil and gas after years of failed low-carbon investments. Other supermajors had recommitted more quickly to the hydrocarbon-focused strategies that fed their profits.
Seatrium Limited has announced the impending delivery of the PETROBRAS 78 (P-78) – the first of a series of turnkey Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO), to Brazil’s Petrobras.