Petronas Carigali among 12 qualified for Brazil pre-salt rounds – report

National oil firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) subsidiary Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd (Carigali) is among a dozen companies that have been qualified by the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency (ANP) to bid for the highly-coveted two pre-salt rounds featuring production sharing contracts due to take place today.

Energy portal Upstreamonline.com reported overnight that eight companies have successfully registered to bid for the second pre-salt round, which will see the ANP offering four “unitisable” areas surrounding existing discoveries such as North of Carcara, South of Gato do Mato, Sapinhoa Surround and Southwest of Tartaruga Verde.

It said Carigali, Petrobras, ExxonMobil, Shell, Statoil, Total, Repsol Sinopec and Galp Energia have applied for the second round.

Upstreamonline.com said that according to the regulator, 11 companies have qualified to submit offers in the third pre-salt round.

SPRM Tahan Pegawai Petronas Carigali

Seorang pegawai kanan Petronas Carigali Sdn. Bhd (PCSB) antara tiga individu yang ditahan kerana disyaki terlibat dalam kes rasuah membabitkan RM23.7 juta.

Pengurus penghantaran projek yang berusia 45 tahun di syarikat yang perkhidmatan cari dan penghasilan minyak danm gas itu ditahan oleh Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) di pejabatnya di Menara Berkembar Petronas, KLCC pada Selasa.

Satu lagi pasukan SPRM turut menahan pengarah syarikat berusia 57 tahun yang melaksakana kerja untuk PCSB ketika suspek berada di rumahnya di Batu 9, Jalan Cheras.

Pasukan ketiga pula menyerbu kediaman bekas pembantu teknikal PCSB di Puncak Alam dan menahannya di sana.

Pengarah Siasatan SPRM, Datuk Simi Abd Ghani mengesahkan tentang penangkapan itu yang dilakukan antara pukul 2.40 petang hingga 3 petang.