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What company is Petrobras trying to lease the rigs from?
Not everything is Beck..
Global Energy :: Rig Tender Deadline Delayed Again (http://www.energiahoje.com/globalenergy/2010/06/16/412490/rig-tender-deadline-delayed-again.html - broken link)
Petrobras once again has extended the deadline, this time until June 27, for the delivery of proposals for the third tender package for drill rigs, for the lease of one or more units, with the possibility of offering a semi-submersible or mono-column and with the requirement that they must be built in Brazil. Furthermore, yet another delay is still possible.
Those darn activist judges who put their own financial interests before the law.
The higher courts will overturn this judge who is in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.
Some environmental groups sought to highlight the judge's investments in oil and gas companies. Judge Feldman owned shares in a wide variety of energy firms, including onshore oil and gas producers, pipeline companies and shallow-water drilling contractors, none of which would likely be directly affected by the deep-water moratorium.
But he also had investments in companies that have been affected. In 2008, he owned stock in Transocean Ltd., the deep water-drilling specialist that owned the Deepwater Horizon. He also owned stock in offshore oil producer ATP Oil & Gas, offshore driller Rowan and oil services firm Halliburton, but had sold those shares by the end of 2008.
When asked about his holdings, a secretary for Judge Feldman, referred to the "public record" of his filings, but the most recent filing was not available from the federal court. In a May 24 order in a separate case tied to the oil spill, the judge noted his holdings do not raise a conflict of interest.
Not everything is Beck..
Global Energy :: Rig Tender Deadline Delayed Again (http://www.energiahoje.com/globalenergy/2010/06/16/412490/rig-tender-deadline-delayed-again.html - broken link)
Petrobras once again has extended the deadline, this time until June 27, for the delivery of proposals for the third tender package for drill rigs, for the lease of one or more units, with the possibility of offering a semi-submersible or mono-column and with the requirement that they must be built in Brazil. Furthermore, yet another delay is still possible.
The poster I was querying stated that Petrobras was calling companies in the gulf within 24 hours of the moratorium about leasing rigs.
I could only find a Glenn Beck story on this, and several blogs repeating Beck, and asked if any other news source was saying this.
Beck mentioned one company, I think it was Lourdes Marine. I couldn't find that the company Beck mentions actually controls any leasing rigs, so I asked for more information.
Your links simply report that a deep-well company that is not involved in the Gulf will benefit from this disaster. In much the same way as companies not involved in Alaskan ventures benefited from the Exxon-Valdez disaster. That's not news, that's common sense. Your links also say that companies have been contacting Petrobras, not the other way around.
The poster I was querying stated that Petrobras was calling companies in the gulf within 24 hours of the moratorium about leasing rigs.
I could only find a Glenn Beck story on this, and several blogs repeating Beck, and asked if any other news source was saying this.
Beck mentioned one company, I think it was Lourdes Marine. I couldn't find that the company Beck mentions actually controls any leasing rigs, so I asked for more information.
Your links simply report that a deep-well company that is not involved in the Gulf will benefit from this disaster. In much the same way as companies not involved in Alaskan ventures benefited from the Exxon-Valdez disaster. That's not news, that's common sense. Your links also say that companies have been contacting Petrobras, not the other way around.
So my questions stand.
Petrobras declined to comment about them leasing the idle rigs, but they are willing to take them:
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Brazil could benefit
from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill as a U.S. moratorium on
offshore drilling boosts available rigs for the country's deep
water oil exploration program.
Even as an ecological catastrophe makes the future of U.S.offshore drilling less certain, Brazil is plowing ahead with a$220 billion five-year plan to tap oil fields even deeper thanBP's (BP.L) ill-fated Gulf well, which is still leaking crude. With an estimated 35 rigs idled in the Gulf of Mexico,Brazil is already receiving inquiries from companies looking tomove their rigs here, where vast discoveries in recent yearsmay soon turn the country into a major crude exporter. "What is bad for some may be good for others," saidFernando Martins, Latin America Vice President for GE Oil andGas, which provides services to drillers in Brazil. "Since operators are shutting down at least temporarily inthe U.S. Gulf, some companies are planning to move their rigsto Brazil now," he said, without offering details.
I wonder why they wouldn't offer details about companies planning to move their rigs there?
Petrobras declined to comment about them leasing the idle rigs, but they are willing to take them:
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Brazil could benefit
from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill as a U.S. moratorium on
offshore drilling boosts available rigs for the country's deep
water oil exploration program.
Even as an ecological catastrophe makes the future of U.S.offshore drilling less certain, Brazil is plowing ahead with a$220 billion five-year plan to tap oil fields even deeper thanBP's (BP.L) ill-fated Gulf well, which is still leaking crude. With an estimated 35 rigs idled in the Gulf of Mexico,Brazil is already receiving inquiries from companies looking tomove their rigs here, where vast discoveries in recent yearsmay soon turn the country into a major crude exporter. "What is bad for some may be good for others," saidFernando Martins, Latin America Vice President for GE Oil andGas, which provides services to drillers in Brazil. "Since operators are shutting down at least temporarily inthe U.S. Gulf, some companies are planning to move their rigsto Brazil now," he said, without offering details.
I wonder why they wouldn't offer details about companies planning to move their rigs there?
Petrobrass declined to comment? Who asked them? That doesn't appear in your link. Would you care to comment?
Petrobrass declined to comment? Who asked them? That doesn't appear in your link. Would you care to comment?
I would assume Reuters. It doesn't exactly say who did the interview.
The spill has temporarily halted new drilling in the Gulf
of Mexico and Alaska, and has spurred Norway, which 40 years
ago pioneered offshore drilling, to halt new licensing for now.
Brazil's state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA) (PBR.N),which already produces around a quarter of the world's deepwater oil, could be an obvious candidate to take newlyavailable rigs. Petrobras declined to comment on the issue.
I would assume Reuters. It doesn't exactly say who did the interview.
The spill has temporarily halted new drilling in the Gulf
of Mexico and Alaska, and has spurred Norway, which 40 years
ago pioneered offshore drilling, to halt new licensing for now.
Brazil's state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA) (PBR.N),which already produces around a quarter of the world's deepwater oil, could be an obvious candidate to take newlyavailable rigs. Petrobras declined to comment on the issue.
And back to the original question. You stated that Petrobras was calling companies in the gulf within 48 hours of the moratorium. Can you substantiate that claim?
And back to the original question. You stated that Petrobras was calling companies in the gulf within 48 hours of the moratorium. Can you substantiate that claim?
Try this for starters
Within 48 hours after President Obama issued the six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, the George Soros-backed Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, contacted a large New Orleans company, Laborde Marine, which services the deep-water drilling market. The company was seeking to lease all its vessels. “If the moratorium on deep-water drilling is not lifted, 33 semi-submersible rigs and/or drill ships affected will simply go to other countries where they will be well received, such as Brazil,” Cliffe F. Laborde and J. Peter Laborde, Jr. wrote in a June 4 letter to their Louisiana Senators.
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