Elfe inaugura nova sede em Macaé para atender contrato com a Petrobras

A Elfe inaugurou, nesta quarta-feira (16/11), sua nova sede em Macaé. A nova instalação, com área total de 9 mil m², veio com a necessidade de crescer, principalmente após recente contrato de construção e montagem firmado com a Petrobras referente a quatro plataformas offshore no Espírito Santo, entre elas a P-58, maior produtora de petróleo do país.  

Os serviços prestados em águas capixabas são de melhoria, substituição e implantação de novos sistemas de tubulação, estrutura metálica, elétrica e instrumentação. Com 22 anos de experiência, a Elfe é especializada em serviços de operação, manutenção industrial e facilities, atuando pautada em processos, soluções escaláveis, eficiência de custos e alto nível no trabalho executado. 

A empresa possui capacidade de atendimento em todos os estados do país, com expertise em operações complexas e de alto volume. Hoje, atua com escritórios regionais em 15 estados do Brasil e três bases operacionais localizadas em pontos estratégicos. 

A Elfe possui mais de 3 mil funcionários em várias partes do país, operando mais de 2 mil unidades de bombeio de poços terrestres, 30 unidades de exploração e produção offshore, sete refinarias e outras instalações do setor de energia. 

Na área de facilities, opera em mais de 10 mil prédios administrativos e técnicos, em cerca de 3 mil obras/ano, no serviço de conservação e limpeza em aproximadamente 4,5 milhões de m² e em 5,9 milhões de m² de áreas verdes.

Fonte: http://www.tnpetroleo.com.br/

Ação climática não limita o desenvolvimento – pelo contrário, ela o fortalece, segundo documento gerado em Marrakech

O Fórum de Países Vulneráveis ao Clima - Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) concordou hoje, durante sua Reunião de Alto Nível na Conferência da ONU sobre Mudanças Climáticas, realizada em Marrakech, que a ação climática não limita o desenvolvimento – pelo contrário, ela o fortalece. Os ministros e chefes de Delegação do CVF adotaram o Comunicado de Marrakech e a Visão de Marrakech. O Comunicado apela por uma maior ambição climática, enfatizando que qualquer país com um NDC ainda não conforme com a sua parte justa e consistente com o objetivo de longo prazo do Acordo de Paris tem de atualizar as contribuições até 2020, o mais tardar. Também pediu o cumprimento de compromissos, o investimento em financiamento climático e a necessidade de transformar o mercado. 

A Visão adoptada reconhece as medidas que o Fórum tomará para manter os perigos das alterações climáticas dentro do mínimo absoluto e para maximizar as vantagens obtidas dos benefícios da ação climática, incluindo o esforço para atingir 100% de energia renovável o mais tardar entre 2030 e 2050, reforçando o comprometimento dos mais de 40 integrantes do grupo de tomar medidas para limitar o aquecimento global a 1,5 graus Celsius acima dos níveis pré-industriais. 

O ex-presidente do Climate Vulnerable Forum, Dr. Gemedo Dalle, do Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Floresta e Mudança Climática da Etiópia, convidou todos os membros do CVF a buscarem uma ação climática doméstica robusta e incentivou outros países a cumprir os objetivos que o Fórum adotou. O ministro Dalle acrescentou: "Sem uma ação climática mais forte, poderemos não sobreviver, e isso não é uma opção". 

Mattlan Zackhras, ministro em Assistência ao Presidente das Ilhas Marshall disse que este é um momento crucial na liderança e transformação do clima que pode garantir um futuro mais seguro para as comunidades vulneráveis. O ministro Zackhras acrescentou: "Estamos sendo pioneiros na transformação para 100% de energia renovável, mas queremos que outros países sigam nossos passos para evadir os impactos catastróficos que estamos sofrendo por causa de furacões, inundações e secas". 

Evelyn Cruzada, executiva do secretário de Gabinete das Filipinas disse que as ações climáticas gerarão a renda necessária para financiar os planos de adaptação. A secretária Cruzada acrescentou: "A ação climática não é opcional e nem a obrigação dos países desenvolvidos de apoiar um desenvolvimento resiliente ao clima. A adaptação é fundamental para a capacidade de países vulneráveis, como as Filipinas, também prosperarem. " 

Edgar Gutierrez, Ministro do Meio Ambiente e Energia da Costa Rica disse que alcançar o objetivo de manter o aquecimento do planeta em 1,5 C requer um sentido imediato de urgência de todas as partes. O secretário Gutierrez acrescentou: "Nós não sabemos o que os países ainda estão esperando para avançar para a neutralidade líquida do carbono e 100% de energia renovável, todas as partes devem iniciar a transição, caso contrário todos nós vamos sofrer. 

Saleemul Huq, iretor do Centro de Mudança Climática e Desenvolvimento de Bangladesh e Presidente do Grupo Consultivo de Especialistas do CVF disse que a liderança sem precedentes do CVF nesta declaração desafia outros países a agir. Huq acrescentou: "Estou emocionado por estar vivendo esse momento histórico, os países do CVF abriram o caminho para um mundo muito mais seguro, saudável e próspero". 

Comentando os próximos passos, Kare Chawicha, ministro de Estado do Meio Ambiente, Floresta e Mudança Climática da Etiópia, disse que a mitigação dos impactos da mudança climática requer esforços concertados e engajamento de todo o espectro da sociedade, do governo aos cidadãos. O ministro de Estado Chawicha adicionou: "Nós prometemos informar e educar todos sobre riscos do clima e o impacto de adotar açoes, das contribuições do governo às menores iniciativas dos indivíduos." 

Documentos

Visão de Marraquexe: www.thecvf.org/marrakech-vision

Comunicado de Marrakech: www.thecvf.org/marrakech-communique 

Notas para editores

Fundado em 2009, o Climate Vulnerable Forum é uma parceria internacional de mais de 40 nações da África, Ásia, Caribe, América Latina e Pacífico que trabalha para combater as mudanças climáticas globais através da colaboração em objetivos comuns, comunicação e compartilhamento de experiência e conhecimento.

Fonte: http://www.tnpetroleo.com.br/

Petrobras vende Liquigás para Ultragaz por R$ 2,8 bilhões

 Divulgação

O Conselho de Administração da Petrobras aprovou, em reunião realizada hoje, a assinatura do contrato para venda da Liquigás Distribuidora S.A. para Companhia Ultragaz S.A., subsidiária da Ultrapar Participações S.A.. O valor da venda corresponde a R$ 2,8 bilhões. O valor a ser pago será corrigido pelo Certificado de Depósito Interbancário (CDI), entre as datas de assinatura e de fechamento da operação. O valor ainda estará sujeito a ajustes em razão das variações de capital de giro e da posição da dívida líquida da Liquigás entre 31/12/2015 e a data de fechamento da transação.

A Liquigás é subsidiária integral da Petrobras e atua no engarrafamento, distribuição e comercialização de gás liquefeito de petróleo (GLP). A empresa está presente em quase todos os estados brasileiros, e conta com 23 centros operativos, 19 depósitos, uma base de armazenagem e carregamento rodoferroviário e uma rede de aproximadamente 4.800 revendedores autorizados. 

A Ultragaz, primeira distribuidora de GLP do Brasil, atende aproximadamente 11 milhões de domicílios no segmento envasado e 50 mil clientes no segmento granel.

A operação, conduzida através de processo competitivo, é parte integrante do Plano de Desinvestimentos 2015-2016 e está alinhada ao Plano Estratégico da Companhia, que visa otimizar o portfólio de negócios, com foco em óleo e gás, saindo integralmente das atividades de distribuição de GLP. 

Essa transação ainda está sujeita à aprovação das Assembleias Gerais da Petrobras e da Ultrapar e ao cumprimento de condições precedentes usuais, incluindo a aprovação pelo Conselho Administrativo de Defesa da Concorrência (CADE).

Fonte: http://www.tnpetroleo.com.br/

ExxonMobil set to develop Liza discovery offshore Guyana

ExxonMobil Corp. has informed the Guyanese government that it intends to fast-track development of the Liza discovery on the 6.6 million-acre Stabroek block (OGJ Online, June 30, 2016). The company’s partners, Nexen Energy ULC and Hess Corp., gave Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman notice of the discovery’s commercial quantities early last week.

ExxonMobil announced that the Liza-1 well encountered more than 295 ft of high-quality, oil-bearing sandstone in May 2015. The Liza-2 well, drilled 120 miles offshore Guyana, encountered more than 190 ft of oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs in Upper Cretaceous formations.

The Liza-2 well was drilled to 17,963 ft in 5,551 ft of water about 2 miles from the operators first exploration well, Liza-1, on the 6.6 million acre Stabroek block.

ExxonMobil’s notification is the first time Section 31 of Guyana’s Petroleum Act has been activated in its 50-year history as an independent nation. “This is profound and watershed moment in the development of our country,” Minister Trotman said in a press report.

Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Ltd. is operator and holds 45% interest in the Stabroek block. Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd. holds 30% interest and CNOOC Nexen Petroleum Guyana Ltd. holds 25% interest.

Fonte: http://www.ogj.com/

Texas can’t ‘swim’ in oil that hasn’t yet been discovered

Texas now “swims” in 20 billion bbl of crude oil that the US Geological Survey has “discovered” in the Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp shale of West Texas.

So report newspapers about the USGS’s first evaluation of continuous resources in the Midland basin shale.

Oil & Gas Journal readers know swimming in the subject of this evaluation won’t get the Lone Star State very far.

That 20-billion bbl datum represents not even a bucketful of physical oil. It’s an assessment of the mean undiscovered, technically recoverable resource.

From outside the oil and gas industry, the concepts here can be perplexing. Even in the industry, words like “resources” and “reserves” fall victim to occasional abuse.

But doesn’t the adjective “undiscovered” hint strongly that the number relates to something other than a fluid in which anything, let alone a state, might “swim?”

At least that article didn’t report, as several others did, that USGS had “discovered in West Texas one of the largest reserves of recoverable oil in the agency’s history.”

In fact, the USGS discovered no oil at all.

The agency performs many valuable services, but exploration, an activity essential to discovery, is not one of them.

For assessments such its whopper on the Midland basin Wolfcamp, USGS instead studies geology, applies scientific theory, and postulates accumulations of oil and gas outside known deposits.

The resulting technically recoverable, undiscovered resource in this case has a 95% chance of being greater than 11 billion bbl and a 5% chance of being as high as 31 billion bbl.

Those numbers do not indicate reserves, which cannot exist before discovery.

Anyone writing about these matters should know that or learn it in the course of, for example, asking logical questions about the “undiscovered” modifier.

Alas, the article with the swimming metaphor in its headline compounded the error by reporting that the oil is “just sitting there.”

Worse yet, it appeared in the leading newspaper of a major city in Texas, where people really should know better.

Fonte: http://www.ogj.com/

BHI: US rig count records largest gain in 2½ years

The US drilling rig count jumped 20 units to 588 during the week ended Nov. 18, according to Baker Hughes Inc. data. It’s the count’s largest increase since April 2014, several months before the beginning of a steep drilling dive that lasted a year and a half.

Despite oil prices mostly remaining below the $50/bbl threshold, the tally of active rigs has risen by double digits in 5 of the last 8 weeks, adding 184 units since the recent drilling rebound began after May 27 (OGJ Online, Nov. 14, 2016). It’s now down 1,332 units since Dec. 5, 2014.

Staying true to form, rigs targeting oil, drilling horizontally, and operating in the Permian basin provided much of the upward lift this week.

Oil-directed rigs represented all but one of those units to come online, boosting their count to 471, an increase of 155 since May 27. Natural gas-directed rigs edged up 1 unit to 116, up 35 units since Aug. 26. One rig considered unclassified remains operational.

Land-based rigs gained 17 units to 563, down just 162 year-over-year. Horizontal rigs rose 13 units to 470, up 156 since May 27.

A tale of two regions

The Permian basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico jumped 11 units this week to 229, up 95 since May 13. The increased drilling in the basin since last spring has resulted in higher estimated quantities of drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells and higher projected crude oil production in the region.

According to the US Energy Information Administration’s latest Drilling Productivity Report (DPR), the Permian’s DUC tally spiked by 85 wells in October to 1,467, lifting the DUC count of the seven major US oil and gas producing regions by 58 to 5,155 (OGJ Online, Nov. 14, 2016).

Crude production in the Permian during December is forecast to rise 27,000 b/d to 2.065 million b/d. However, combined crude output from the seven regions covered by the DPR is expected to fall 20,000 b/d to 4.498 million b/d.

A formidable counterforce on the Permian’s gains in recent months, the neighboring Eagle Ford is expected to see its oil output in December fall below 1 million b/d for the first time since April 2013 with a 33,000-b/d decline to 978,000 b/d. It dropped 30 DUC wells in October to 1,309, and its rig count this week was flat at 38, still up 7 units since Oct. 14.

Adding to the increasing appeal of the Permian is the US Geological Survey’s assessment of the Midland basin portion of the Wolfcamp shale, which the agency said this week may hold 20 billion bbl of oil (OGJ Online, Nov. 16, 2016).

The Wolfcamp estimate is nearly three times that of the 2013 USGS Bakken-Three Forks resource assessment, making it the largest estimated continuous oil accumulation that USGS has assessed to date in the US.

A hundred more Texas rigs

Largely lifted by the Permian, Texas gained 8 units this week to 276, representing an increase of 103 since May 27. The Granite Washrose a unit to 11, offsetting a 1-unit decrease in the Barnett to 2.

Oklahoma and Louisiana each collected 4 active rigs to respective totals of 79 and 52. Oklahoma has added 25 units since June 24. The Haynesville gained 2 units to 23, up 10 since Sept. 30.

Two rigs started work offshore Louisiana, bringing the overall US offshore count to 23. One rig drilling in inland waters also came online, doubling that tally.

Ohio and the Utica each climbed 3 units to 18 and 19, respectively. Colorado and the DJ-Niobrara each gained 2 units to respective tallies of 20 and 18. Utah increased a unit to 5.

North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming each lost 1 unit to respective counts of 34, 25, and 16. The Williston and Marcellus, each down 1 unit, now total 34 each.

Canadian drilling increases

The rig count in Canada rose for a fourth consecutive week with an 8-unit climb to 184, up 148 since May 6 and the country’s largest tally since Feb. 19.

As with the US rebound, Canada’s recent drilling increases have been bolstered by the proliferation of active oil-directed rigs, which jumped 11 units this week to 100, a far cry from the 8 rigs working on Apr. 8. Gas-directed rigs, meanwhile, dropped 3 units to 84, but are still up 60 since May 6.

In its recently released 2017 Canadian Drilling Activity Forecast, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) said it expects 4,175 wells to be drilled in Canada next year, compared with a final revised forecast of 3,950 wells this year.

Although PSAC expects 2017 activity to improve slightly year-over-year, the projected total is still 63% lower than the number of wells drilled in 2014.

“We are seeing a small uptick in activity for 2016-17 as we head in to our traditional winter drilling and completion season,” said Mark Salkeld, PSAC president. “Beyond that, it is hard to find support for any significant ramp up of activity over what we are forecasting, as geopolitics and increased supply continue to keep commodity prices low, and lack of access to global markets keeps a chokehold on the Canadian industry.”

PSAC estimates 1,940 wells will be drilled in Saskatchewan next year, up 240 year-over-year; and 1,900 in Alberta, up 53 year-over-year. Meanwhile, 2017 drilling activity is expected to fall in Manitoba to 50 wells, down 24 year-over-year; and in British Columbia to 280 wells, down 40 year-over-year.

Fonte: http://www.ogj.com/

API: US petroleum demand rose in October

Total US petroleum deliveries, a measure of petroleum demand, moved up 3% in October from a year ago to average 20.1 million b/d, according to data from the American Petroleum Institute. This level was the highest October deliveries since 2007.

For year to date, total US petroleum deliveries moved up 0.3% compared with the same period last year.

Overall the US economy showed signs of improvement in October with an estimated 161,000 jobs added, according to a Nov. 4 report from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The unemployment rate, at 4.9%, and the total number of unemployed persons, at 7.8 million, were essentially unchanged from September.

Gasoline deliveries in October were down from the previous month, but up from the previous year as well as the previous year-to-date. Total motor gasoline deliveries moved up 0.2% from October 2015 to 9.3 million b/d. These were the lowest deliveries since April, but remained the second highest October deliveries on record.

“Gasoline deliveries continue to be near historical monthly highs as consumers have been enjoying low fuel costs throughout the year relative to 2015,” said chief economist Erica Bowman.

US crude oil production in October was higher compared with the previous month, but was lower than the previous year and the previous year-to-date. At an average of 8.6 million b/d, US crude oil production in October decreased 8% from October 2015, but increased from September by 0.2%. October’s crude oil production was the third-highest since 1985 and the second-highest year to date since 1985.

Total US petroleum imports in October averaged nearly 9.8 million b/d, down 2% from the previous month, but up 10.4% from the previous year. October’s total petroleum imports were the fourth-lowest imports for the month since 1995. Year-to-date total imports were up 6.3% to average 10 million b/d compared with 2015.

Meanwhile, crude oil imports in October were up compared with the previous year, increasing 8% from October 2015 to average 7.7 million b/d. Compared with the previous month, crude imports were down 0.9%. Compared with year-to-date 2015, crude imports were up 7.3%. Last month’s crude imports were the fourth-lowest October imports since 1995.

Crude oil stocks, excluding lease stocks, ended in October averaging 483.7 million bbl—the highest October inventory level in since 1930. Crude stocks were up 3.2% or 15.1 million bbl from the previous month, and were up 6.3% or 28.5 million bbl from the previous year. Stocks of motor gasoline ended in October down 1% vs. a month ago, but were up 2.6% from last year to average 223 million bbl. These were the highest motor gasoline stocks for the month since 1984.

Fonte: http://www.ogj.com/