Brazil's Petrobras workers appear to have agreed a five-day strike just as the government announced a report suggesting worldwide oil companies will help investments in the oil province reach $133 billion by 2016, it was learned Tuesday. 
Pemex has hired the PetroRig III, a rig and business of PetroMena, whose major shareholder Larsen Oil & Gas will manage a contract worth $942 million, or 1,825 days of work. 
Norwegian oil company Hydro (soon to be StatoilHydro) reported Wednesday that its plan for the development of the Peregrino field offshore Brazil has been approved by the Agencia Nacional do Petroleo in Rio de Janeiro.
Hydro in Brazil and 50-50 partner Anadarko have declared the Peregrino oil field worthy of commercializing, and have sent their development application to the Agência Nacional do Petróleo in Rio de Janeiro, a statement late Thursday said. 
Pakistani National utility Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd. has chosen Shell, Total and ENI among some seven others to build its first import terminal for liquefied natural gas, it was learned today. 
Bergen-, Norway based Petrolia Drilling has found high-paying work for one of its rigs by employing drilling contractor and manager, Larsen Oil & Gas Ltd. of Aberdeen, it was understood Monday. 
Houston-based BPZ Energy, Inc., with properties in northwest Peru and southwest Ecuador, has begun testing the recently drilled CX11-21XD well in its Corvina gas field off the coast of Peru. 
Not long after the opening of its Mobil, Alabama, plant, Aker Kvaerner will start building risers in Brazil for a burgeoning deepsea market thick with new-builds and buttressed by a combined Hydro-Statoil in the nearby Gulf of Mexico. |
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