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Former SBM CEO, sales executive, plead guilty in Petrobras scandal

(Bloomberg) A former CEO of oil-services company SBM Offshore NV pleaded guilty Thursday to charges related to the Petrobras corruption scandal in Brazil as the U.S. steps up its pursuit of individuals over corporate misdeeds. ExxonMobil Guyana closely studying Petrobras corruption case...

Venezuelan oil output heads to 29-year low as cash crunch grows

(Bloomberg) -- Venezuela is set to pump the least oil in almost three decades, just when it needs petrodollars the most. Output is expected to slump to 1.84 million barrels a day next year, the lowest compared with official government...

China Energy Investment signs MOU for $83.7B in US projects

(Reuters) - China Energy Investment Corp, the world's largest power company by asset value, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to invest $83.7 billion in shale gas, power and chemical projects in West Virginia, the U.S state said...

Chevron green lights its first Canadian shale development

(Reuters) - Chevron Canada, a unit of global oil major Chevron Corp, is forging ahead with its first ever Canadian shale play development, targeting the East Kaybob region of central Alberta's Duvernay formation. The decision, announced by the company on...

US exit from EITI will not affect ExxonMobil participation in the anti-corruption body – Brasington

The decision by the United States government this week to withdraw from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) will have no impact on ExxonMobil’s participation in the anti-corruption body and engagement in implementation activities in countries outside of the...

Spain arrests four former Venezuelan officials for U.S. probe

(Reuters) - Spanish authorities arrested a former Venezuelan deputy minister and three former executives at Venezuelan state companies for alleged links to money laundering and international corruption, Spain’s Civil Guard said on Friday. The operation was carried out with the...

Grenada gunning for commercial oil & gas

Global Petroleum Group (GPG) has conducted a search for oil and gas offshore the Caribbean island of Grenada, raising hopes among the population of just over 107,000, that confirmation of a big discovery could be imminent. The New Today reports...

Exxon to acquire interest in Brazil’s Carcara oil field from Statoil

ExxonMobil announced Friday that it has completed an agreement to purchase half of Statoil’s interest in the BM-S-8 block offshore Brazil, which contains part of the pre-salt Carcara oil field. The Carcara field contains an estimated recoverable resource of 2...

Brazil judge suspends pre-salt oil auctions set for Friday

(Reuters) - A federal judge in the Brazilian state of Amazonas issued an injunction on Thursday ordering the suspension of the billion-dollar auctions of pre-salt oil and gas rights scheduled for Friday. The injunction was sought by the leftist Workers...

ExxonMobil to resume exploration off Brazil

US supermajor ExxonMobil is set to resume exploration activity off Brazil in the first half of 2018 after a nearly eight-year hiatus. The company will be shooting 3D seismic covering two ultra-deepwater blocks it recently farmed into in the...

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Environmental concerns halt Petrobras’ plans for equatorial prospect in offshore Brazil

Petrobras had plans to drill the Morpho 1-APS-57 prospect in block FZA-M-059 but this was stopped short when the...