Sinopec will team up with Petrobras to develop offshore areas of the Para-Maranhao basin in northern Brazil after negotiating for a year. Petrobras is planning to invest $224 billion in the five years through 2014, the largest spending plan of any oil company, to increase oil and gasoline output. “Petrobras is seeking international partners because as its production is expected to double in the next 10 years to reach 4 million barrels per day", said Petrobras’ CEO Gabrielli. He said Petrobras' strategic planning foresees the order of 169 platforms, 504 support vessels, 53 drills and 48 oil tankers until 2020.
In 2010, Petrobras announced a preliminary agreement to sell stakes in two blocks, BM-PAMA-3 and BM-PAMA-4, to Sinopec. Last October, Sinopec made an entry into Brazil by acquiring 40% interest in Repsol’s Brazilian business for $7.1 billion. “Sinopec is keen to expand its overseas oil and natural-gas operations”, said Sinopec President Wang Tianpu. The keenness is justified by the following snapshot.
South America- the new playground for Chinese!!
The 2010 M&A activity in South America took a gigantic step by clinching deals worth $36.1 billion, a 91% increase from 2009 value of $3.2 billion. South America accounted for 17% of the total 2010 M&A value of $211 billion and was ranked the second largest region globally for the M&A activity. Brazil was the top country with several large sized transactions totalling $16 billion. 10 transactions were recorded above $1 billion, with Chinese oil and gas companies involved in five of these worth $23 billion in total.
Brazil needs fund and China needs oil & gas resources to meet the growing demand. Here ends the story - Robust Collaboration between Sinopec and Petrobras. Expecting an even more aggressive activity from South America in 2011!
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