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Attorney General Backs Constitutional Challenge Against Amazonas Refinery Tax Exemption

Lawsuit questions tax exemption for refining activity in the Manaus Free Trade Zone, benefiting Refinaria do Amazonas (Ream)

Antitrust Council Approves Helix Energy & Hornbeck Offshore Merger

Brazil’s Antitrust Council (Cade) concluded that the transaction is unlikely to harm competition in the affected markets.

Petrobras-Pemex Partnership Expected Soon

President Lula and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met via videoconference and discussed energy cooperation between the two countries

Petrobras Selects OceanPact For Marlim Decommissioning Project

US$ 80.5 M contract covers pull-out operations & recovery of flexible lines and umbilicals from the P-18 platform, including subsea operations, cutting, disconnections, and interventions using MPSVs, ROVs, and heavy-lift cranes

B3 Suspends Brava’s Ecopetrol Tender Offer Deadline

The 15-day period will remain suspended until the Brazilian company publishes an amendment to the tender offer notice

Ivory Coast Authorizes 8 Exploration Blocks For Petrobras

According to the African country’s petroleum and mines ministry, production-sharing agreements will be signed for 8 offshore blocks located in the country’s sedimentary basin, most of them in deepwater areas

ICL Questions Manaus Refinery’s FTZ Tax Advantage

Fuel market association argues incentives may create competitive imbalance, loss of tax revenue, and market concentration

Alvopetro Finds 47.7 m Of Net Pay In Murucututu

7th well in the field was drilled in April this year. The company also found 21.9 m of net pay in a different sequence of the Maracangalha Formation, which is not yet included in reserve or resource estimates

Petrobras To Join Equinor In Itaimbezinho Block

State-owned company says partnership maximizes synergies in the Campos Basin, where it already develops adjacent assets in consortium with Equinor

Pampa Energía Selects Halliburton To Digitalize Vaca Muerta

Initiative aims to build a scalable digital foundation to support the company’s expansion in Argentina

Wärtsilä Engines To Support Transpetro’s Decarbonization

Equipment will be capable of operating on biofuels and prepared for future conversion to ethanol and methanol

Petrobras Studies Battery Usage In Subsea Applications

Company is also seeking to develop an integrated system for continuous monitoring and sensing of subsea wells. The opportunities are part of the “Connections for Innovation” program

Petrobras To Submit Another SEAP Bid

The company will contract the project, construction, operation, and decommissioning of a yard where pipes for the onshore section of the gas pipeline that will transport production will be stored

BNDES To Invest US$ 967 M In O&G Vessels In 2026

Funds destined for financing new vessel construction, dry-docking, shipyard modernization, and decommissioning are expected to match the amount disbursed by the bank last year

CNOOC & PetroChina Acquire Cargoes In PPSA's 6th Spot Auction

CNOOC and PetroChina acquired cargoes of 900,000 barrels of crude oil from the Atapu field and 1 million barrels of crude oil from the Bacalhau field, respectively

Trafigura Receives License To Trade Electricity In Brazil

For the global commodities trading company, Brazil is the natural gateway to the Latin American power trading market

Solfácil Reports Solar Energy Prices Falling

Acre, Rondônia and Amazonas lead the ranking of states with the lowest average cost for residential systems

ICL Calls For Approval Of Bill Targeting Pipeline-Related Crimes

Legislative proposal seeks to reduce theft, protect critical infrastructure, and prevent disruptions to regional fuel supplies

Carrefour & GreenYellow Brasil Ink Solar Deal

The project will supply more than 30% of the retailer’s electricity consumption through approximately 38 MWp distributed across 54 solar generation systems

CPFL Energia Sets Special Operation For World Cup Matches

Company has reinforced teams, suspended scheduled outages, and will monitor electricity consumption in real time during Brazil’s matches

ISA Energia Inaugurates Brazil’s 1st SSSC System

Aneel-approved solution will enable better management of power flows and reduce grid congestion

32% Ethanol Blend In Gasoline Proposal For CNPE

According to Mines and Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira, the measure could reduce gasoline imports by approximately 454 million liters

Brasília Federal Court Overturns Injunction Against LRCAP

The Federal Court of Brasília had already upheld the auction in a previous ruling and found no new facts compared to the earlier decision

Cemig Allocates US$ 9.7 M To Rural Solar Projects

Initiative offers a minimum 60% subsidy for the acquisition of photovoltaic systems and battery energy storage systems on rural properties

Equatorial Turns Electricity Bills Into Information Channel

Initiative uses the back of energy bills to promote health, citizenship, and well-being campaigns to more than 14 million customers

Proper Price Signaling Can Solve Power System Imbalance

Independent Electricity Producers Association president says supply and demand control in the electricity sector should be handled through tariff signals & argues Brazil is behind other countries

Electricity Distributors Invested US$ 7.92 B In 2025

Information is included in the PDD 2026 released by Aneel – US$ 49.89 B in investments forecasted over the next 5 years

Energy Groups Urge CMSE To Reduce Thermal Generation Dispatch

Joint statement calls for changes at the committee's upcoming meeting to reduce thermal generation dispatch and estimates potential savings of US$ 580 M

Clark Solutions Secures US$ 2 M Finep Green Hydrogen Technology Funding

Funding will support the development of a Brazilian-made alkaline electrolyzer; plans to scale technology to +1 MW by end 2026

Reservoir Storage Forecast Above 65% Across Brazilian Subsystems

Northern region is expected to end June with reservoirs virtually full at 99.9%, while cold fronts help sustain hydropower storage levels, ONS says

From The Media

JUN 12, 2026 - Merco Press

Venezuela on Thursday (June 11) granted the British company Shell a license for a first phase of exploration and exploitation of the Loran gas field, which has seven reservoirs, six of them transboundary with Trinidad and Tobago. Five instruments were signed: the Loran field license and four others stemming from the technical-financial alliance established in March, which included the first service and purchase orders. Agreements were also signed for the development of the Carito and Pirital production units of the Punta de Mata division in the eastern state of Monagas. Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez described the award as a “historic step,” recalling that the field had remained “without development” for 23 years, and said the license would allow “adequate use of the gas for export.” Shell's President of Exploration and Production Peter Costello called the signings “a wonderful achievement” for Venezuela and the company.

JUN 12, 2026 - Reuters

Brazilian refineries sold over 100 million liters of naphtha to a firm investigated in an alleged fraud scheme involving a criminal gang designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, according to a person close to the matter and documents seen by Reuters. One major supplier was Riograndense, a refinery in southern Brazil owned by Petrobras, petrochemical giant Braskem, and energy conglomerate Ultrapar, documents from the O&G Regulator (ANP) show. Receiving the naphtha was solvent producer Petrodansk, accused by Sao Paulo state prosecutors of diverting it to gas stations in a fuel-smuggling and money-laundering scheme linked to the First Capital Command (PCC), Brazil's largest criminal gang, according to a source close ‌to the investigation. The ongoing investigation into Petrodansk and its supply chain highlights the risks for major players in Brazil's vast energy sector from a new U.S. policy to crack down on the gang and its suspected sources of income.

JUN 12, 2026 - News Room Guyana

Guyana’s plan to develop a fertilizer plant has caught the attention of Brazil, as the country’s Vice Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Cleber Soares, said his country is looking to Guyana as a potential fertilizer source. Soares met with President Dr. Irfaan Ali in Georgetown on Tuesday (June 9), where he noted that Brazil imported 90 percent of the fertilizers used in its agriculture sector last year. Guyana intends to have an operational fertilizer plant by 2028. The US$ 300 million Guyana Ammonia and Urea Plant (GAUP), to be developed at Wales, West Bank, Demerara, will use up to 20 million cubic feet of natural gas per day sourced from the second phase of the Wales Gas-to-Energy project. Once completed, the facility is expected to produce around 300,000 tonnes of fertilizer annually.

JUN 12, 2026 - Washington Post

Brazil announced on Thursday (June 11) a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to justify additional tariffs on the country. In May, Amazon deforestation was 61.4% lower than in the same month in 2025, according to officials from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Ministry of Environment. Still, 370 square kilometers (nearly 143 square miles) of the rainforest were cleared. Deforestation over the same period fell 12% in the Cerrado, a savanna in central Brazil that has long been under pressure from the powerful agribusiness sector. Environment Minister João Capobianco said that the figure is the lowest ever recorded for May and that Brazil is on track to reach its lowest annual levels once the data is consolidated next semester. He said that the month typically sees higher deforestation because it marks the start of the Amazon’s dry season.