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May 22, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on X that a Venezuela oil-export license will expire next Tuesday, defying earlier expectations that it would be extended. The tighter time frame would put pressure on Chevron Corp.’s operations in the sanctioned nation.
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May 21, 2025
DOF Group ASA has secured four long-term charter and service contract awards with Petrobras in Brazil following a competitive tender process. The combined value of the contracts is approximately $480 million USD. 
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May 20, 2025
Venezuela released an American citizen on the same day the U.S. was set to give Chevron another 60-day waiver to operate in the country, part of a push by President Nicolas Maduro’s government and the Trump administration to improve ties.
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May 20, 2025
SLB has launched Retina™ at-bit imaging, a first-of-its-kind solution which enables identification of formation characteristics. Retina addresses the limitations of traditional imagers, which are often restricted by operational factors like drilling fluid type and wellbore damage, SLB stated.
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May 15, 2025
Perenco has announced a successful drilling operation for its Onyx well, encountering significant columns of natural gas in two separate geological compartments. The Onyx field is an undeveloped gas discovery located within the TSP license, offshore Trinidad.
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May 13, 2025
Colombia’s oil and gas association urged authorities to take “urgent action” after a surge in sabotage attacks on critical energy infrastructure. A group broke in and set fire to the Quifa field facilities in central Colombia on Monday, the ACP said in a statement.
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May 13, 2025
Brazil’s state-controlled oil producer Petrobras approved dividends slightly below expectations amid a trade war that has created economic uncertainty and undermined oil prices.
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May 12, 2025
Prosafe has been declared the winner of a bidding process for a four-year contract by Petrobras for the provision of the Safe Notos semisubmersible vessel for safety and maintenance support offshore Brazil.
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May 05, 2025
BW Energy has reached final investment decision (FID) for the Maromba development offshore Brazil based on a capex-efficient development with an integrated drilling and wellhead platform (WHP) and a refurbished FPSO.
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May 02, 2025
Subsea7 has secured a super-major contract1 with Petrobras for the development of the Búzios 11 field located approximately 180 kilometers off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at 2,000 meters water depth in the pre-salt Santos basin.
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May 02, 2025
Golar LNG has reached final investment decision (FID) for the 20-year re-deployment charter of the FLNG Hilli Episeyo (FLNG Hilli). The vessel will be chartered to Southern Energy S.A. (SESA), offshore Argentina, to monetize gas from the Vaca Muerta shale formation.
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May 02, 2025
Equinor has entered into agreements with Brazilian company PRIO to sell its 60% operated interest in the Peregrino field in Brazil for $3.5 billion USD. Peregrino is a heavy oil field consisting of a FPSO platform supported by three fixed platforms. Equinor has been operating the field since 2009, with around 300 million barrels of oil being produced by the asset since.
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April 30, 2025
In partnership with ExxonMobil, Lindsayca and Enerflex, CH4 Systems announced Wednesday that it has received the prestigious Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) "Deal of the Year Award" for its pioneering gas-to-energy project in Guyana.
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April 30, 2025
Argentina shale operator YPF has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Globant, a digitally-native company focused on transforming companies through the use of AI. Through the agreement, YPF will apply AI technology across its supply chain operations.
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April 29, 2025
Subsea7 and SLB OneSubsea have secured a substantial engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for bp's Ginger project, offshore Trinidad and Tobago. bp’s Ginger development is located off the southeast coast of the island of Trinidad, at water depths of up to 90 meters. First gas is targeted for 2026.
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April 29, 2025
Petro-Victory has completed its acquisition of Capixaba Energia LTDA, a producing oil and gas asset in the Espírito Santo Basin. The acquisition was completed in partnership with BlueOak Investments, Petro-Victory's strategic financial partner.
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April 25, 2025
Vitol Group has stepped up oil purchases in Venezuela in the final weeks of a U.S. license that allows the world’s largest independent oil trader to do business in the sanctioned nation. Vitol is set to load at least 2.5 million barrels of Venezuelan oil this month, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.
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April 24, 2025
GeoPark Limited, an independent oil and gas company with over 20 years of successful operations across Latin America, announces the appointment of Felipe Bayon as its new Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective June 1, 2025.
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April 21, 2025
MODEC has secured a contract from ExxonMobil Guyana to deliver the Hammerhead FPSO, with initial design work underway and production capacity set at 150,000 barrels per day pending regulatory approval.
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April 16, 2025
Vista Energy has acquired Petronas' 50% stake in the Vaca Muerta shale basin in a deal valued at $1.5 billion USD. Vista estimates that the area, known as La Amarga Chica (LACh) could potentially hold 400 new well locations to be drilled in its inventory (at 100% working interest). The remaining 50% of LACh is held by operator YPF S.A.
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April 14, 2025
Brazil’s oil regulator is set to grant exploration rights in a promising offshore region where state-controlled oil producer Petrobras has faced a years-long dispute with environmental authorities to start drilling. According to the ANP, 31 companies are registered and able to bid, including Petrobras, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, Equinor and bp. 
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