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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on Communication of December 13, 2023, informs that it signed 26 Concession Contracts of the 4th Permanent Concession Offer Cycle, acquired in partnership with Shell in the public session held by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) in December 2023. The consortium will have... Continue Reading →
(offshore-mag.com) Petrobras has signed an agreement to implement Dry-Flo technology in Brazil for the dry testing of deluge systems in its Búzios field FPSO units. This technology, developed by the Paradigm Group, has already seen global adoption across various players in the onshore and offshore markets. The contract was facilitated with support from Mi Fire, Paradigm’s local partner in... Continue Reading →
(offshore.mag.com) Harbour Energy expects to complete its acquisition of Wintershall Dea’s global E&P portfolio in early September. The process of satisfying the conditions to completion has been advancing, including the recent receipt of Mexico regulatory consents. Earlier this month, the Danish Energy Agency also approved the indirect transfer of interests in four licenses that had been granted to... Continue Reading →
(TN) Enel Trading, the Enel Group's trading company, has facilitated the acquisition of carbon credits from Enel Green Power plants by CBO Group (Companhia Brasileira de Offshore), a company in the maritime support segment. The company signed a contract to offset emissions from its vessels, via carbon credits, and from three administrative units, via I-RECs... Continue Reading →
(OE) The mobile wind power installation platform Hengtong Haiyue has been delivered to the Hengtong Group by Jiangsu Dajin Heavy Industry in China. The mobile platform is equipped with a 1,600t leg encircling full-circle slewing crane as well as a 4,000m2 deck with a variable load of over 8,500t, and is capable of installing 20MW... Continue Reading →
(OE) The US Department of the Interior will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale off southern Oregon on October 15, 2024. The auction will be conducted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and could generate more than 3.1 gigawatts of renewable energy if fully developed, enough to power approximately one million homes. Lease... Continue Reading →
Petrobras, the Latin American champion in the past four years according to the Top500.org ranking, which evaluates the world's foremost High-Performance Computers (HPCs), will boost its technological park by acquiring five new supercomputers with a total investment of BRL 500 million. One of the machines, capable of processing the equivalent of roughly 10 million mobile... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) A worsening drought across Brazil that has stoked record wildfires and withered crops now threatens the country’s power supply, raising the risk of higher prices and blackouts in South America’s largest economy. Hydroelectric plants supply more than half of Brazil’s power, typically at low cost. But the reservoirs that feed those plants are shrinking... Continue Reading →
The platform ship Sepetiba, chartered by Petrobras, reached its top production, 180 million oil barrels per day (bpd), in the Mero field, in the Santo Basin’s pre-salt layer, last Tuesday (08/27). This milestone was reached within the estimated time frame of eight months due to the promptness of the unit’s oil treatment and gas compression... Continue Reading →
(OE) TotalEnergies has launched a pilot project consisting of a floating wind turbine to supply renewable power to the Culzean offshore platform in the UK North Sea. Culzean is a high-pressure, high-temperature gas condensate field located in Block 22/25a in the East Central Graben area. The 3MW floating wind turbine will be located 2km west... Continue Reading →
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