{"id":244807,"date":"2026-09-18T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-petrobras-takes-90-stakes-in-ivorian-offshore-blocks\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:30:20","slug":"cote-divoire-petrobras-takes-90-stakes-in-ivorian-offshore-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-petrobras-takes-90-stakes-in-ivorian-offshore-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Petrobras Takes 90% Stakes in Ivorian Offshore Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Brazil&#8217;s Petrobras has signed production-sharing contracts for 8 offshore exploration blocks in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, expanding its presence in Africa as it looks for new oil and gas reserves outside Brazil. Petrobras will operate each block with a 90% stake, while state-owned Petroci will hold the remaining 10%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The contracts cover blocks CI-513, CI-600, CI-601, CI-602, CI-603, CI-605, CI-701 and CI-702. Petrobras said the areas lie along Africa&#8217;s equatorial margin and share geological features with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609180016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s Petrobras has signed production-sharing contracts for 8 offshore exploration blocks in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, expanding its presence in Africa as it looks for new oil and gas reserves outside Brazil. Petrobras will operate each block with a 90% stake, while state-owned Petroci will hold the remaining 10%. The contracts cover blocks CI-513, CI-600, CI-601, CI-602, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,7415,5958,6183,6555,5959,6800,1218,257,26942,51511,254,13470,5056],"class_list":["post-244807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blocks","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-offshore","tag-petrobras","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stakes","tag-takes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}