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Brazil offshore oil rigs hardest hit by COVID-19

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There have been 126 confirmed cases of the coronavirus among oil and gas workers in Brazil, including 74 people who were recently on offshore oil platforms, regulator ANP told Reuters on Tuesday, exposing an outbreak far worse than previously...
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Brazil’s Petrobras shutting down 62 offshore platforms

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(Reuters) - Brazil’s state-owned oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Wednesday it had begun suspending operations of 62 shallow water platforms in the Campos, Sergipe, Potiguar and Ceara basins. Petrobras, as the company is known, had previously announced the...
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Largest supply-demand imbalance in history pushing US storage to its limits

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US crude oil stock builds hit a new weekly record in the week ending April 10 (week 15) as about 17.2 million barrels were sent into storage, Norway-based Rystad Energy estimates. It said this new record is forecast to...
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More than half of 2020 licensing rounds set to be wiped out – Rystad Energy

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More than half of the world’s planned licensing rounds are likely to be cancelled this year due to the combined effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing oil price war, a Rystad Energy impact analysis forecasts. New licensed...
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Equinor makes Monument oil discovery at US Gulf of Mexico

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Norwegian multinational oil, gas and renewable energy company Equinor and co-venturers Progress Resources USA Ltd and Repsol E&P USA Inc. have encountered oil in the Monument exploration well in the US Gulf of Mexico. Equinor said on Monday the Monument...
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Latin American growth to take major hit in 2020

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The spread of coronavirus, drop in commodity prices, tighter external funding conditions and falling domestic financial asset prices will weaken economic growth in Latin America substantially this year, Fitch Ratings says. This follows several years of persistently weak economic...
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Soldiers protecting last drops of gasoline in Venezuela

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(Bloomberg) -- The few gasoline stations still open in Caracas are manned by armed soldiers, and those waiting to fill their vehicles in day-long lines are only security personnel and designated medical and food suppliers. Under coronavirus quarantine like most...
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Suriname must begin discussion on coming oil money – Staatsolie CEO

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Mr Rudolph Elias, CEO of Suriname state oil company Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V., says with the second significant oil discovery at Block 58 offshore Suriname by Apache Corporation and Total, it is of the utmost importance that a national...
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Brazil’s Petrobras makes new oil discovery at Santos Basin

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Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras said Thursday it has identified the presence of oil in the pioneer well of the Uirapuru block, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt. In a press release, the company said that the pioneer well,...
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Low O&G prices, COVID-19 will hit an already vulnerable TT hard – Ramnarine

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Former Minister of Energy and Energy Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago Kevin Ramnarine says that the Twin-Island Republic will be hit hard by the fall in oil and natural gas prices which is wreaking havoc in the energy market...
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Oil revenue to fund 37% of Guyana’s US$6.6 billion 2025 budget

US$2.46 billion in revenue earned from Guyana’s fast-growing oil sector will fund 37% of Guyana’s 2025 national budget. The...

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