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Brazil’s Petrobras reduces on-site workforce by 50% amid virus efforts

(S&P Global) Brazilian state-led oil company Petrobras slashed administrative staff by at least 50%, including at operations units such as refineries and production facilities, amid expanding efforts across Latin America's biggest country to limit social contact and avoid dissemination...

Virus delays oil exploration offshore Bahamas

(Tribune Business) An oil explorer has delayed the drilling of its first well in Bahamian waters until late May/early June to ensure the coronavirus crisis does not cost it “millions of dollars”. Simon Potter, the Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) chief...

Bristow deploys helicopters for corona evacuations in UK

Bristow Helicopters has successfully repatriated offshore workers in the oil and gas industry with suspected cases of the novel coronavirus – COVID-19 – using three specially-configured former search and rescue aircraft. Three suspected COVID-19 cases have been flown from offshore...

Stabroek co-venturer CNOOC appoints new president

CNOOC Limited announced on Friday the appointment of Hu Guangjie as Executive Director and President. The company said Xu Keqiang has resigned as the President and he remains as an Executive Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. CNOOC...

Venezuela to close pumps as gas runs short, viral outbreak grows

(Bloomberg) -- Venezuela’s government is shutting fuel stations nationwide to ration dwindling gasoline inventories as a quarantine designed to stop the coronavirus paralyzes the country, seven people said. Just a few dozen of Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s 1,800 gas stations...

How will the oil price crash hit the upstream sector?

(Wood Mackenzie Analysis) The coronavirus outbreak has derailed OPEC+, thrown the oil market into turmoil and sent an already unloved sector into freefall, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the biggest fall in the oil price...

Largest oil supply surplus in history about to hit global market

The largest oil supply surplus the world has ever seen in a single quarter is about to hit the global market from April, creating an imbalance of around 10 million barrels per day (bpd). An exclusive Rystad Energy analysis...

Stabroek Block operations could be affected due to COVID-19 disruptions – ExxonMobil

The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak globally continues to impact the oil and gas industry and could see operations at Guyana’s Stabroek Block slowing down as ExxonMobil grapples with travel restrictions which is affecting the movement of personnel...

Exxon, contractors step up measures in Guyana to confront COVID-19 threat

As the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues globally, measures are being put in place in Guyana to ensure the safety and health of those working in support of the offshore activities at the Stabroek Block where US oil...

Suriname’s Maka well can bring US$50M per year in revenue

The Maka Central-1 discovery has the potential to bring more than US$50m in revenue per year to the Surinamese Government if it sees similar success to Guyana’s Stabroek, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData. Gregory Bosunga, Oil and Gas Analyst...

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Ali names 25-member cabinet; Vickram Bharrat back at oil ministry

President Irfaan Ali of Guyana unveiled 25 ministerial Cabinet appointees on Saturday evening, as the government embarks on its...