11/28/18 Shell is consulting the market to evaluate the contracting of decommissioning services for the FPSO Fluminense, which is installed in the field of Bijupirá, in the Campos Basin. According to the oil company, the verification of the services necessary for the operation is part of the long-term planning for the decommissioning of the asset.... Continue Reading →

11/28/18 Construction should begin in March 2019 and by September the pipeline should already be operational Alvopetro has contracted the Brazilian company Tecmaster for the construction of the pipeline that will connect the Caburé field in the Recôncavo Basin to the gas unit that is being built by Enerflex. The total pipeline project for the... Continue Reading →

The Rio de Janeiro state governor was arrested on Thursday over allegations he took part in a graft and money laundering group, federal prosecutors said, in the latest blow to Brazil’s political elite by the “car wash” corruption probe. Luiz Fernando Pezao was detained along with eight others as part of the investigation, which has... Continue Reading →

11/29/18 Company evaluates the contracting of cargo and transportation services to the Campos and Santos basins Petrobras has opened a consultation (RFI) to evaluate the contracting of logistics services for cargo supply and transportation of people to attend the exploratory activities of blocks in the sharing regime in the Campos and Santos basins. The scope... Continue Reading →

Rio de Janeiro, November 29, 2018 – Petróleo Brasileiro SA – Petrobras reports that its Board of Directors approved yesterday the end of the Special Committee set up in December 2014 to provide a reporting line for the independent investigations conducted by Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Likewise, it... Continue Reading →

Baker Hughes, a GE company, has launched new subsea solutions designed to assist with the full life of fields. Baker Hughes said on Wednesday that it launched its Subsea Connect solution, including its Aptara TOTEX-lite subsea system. According to the company, Subsea Connect can reduce the economic development point of subsea projects by an average... Continue Reading →

11/28/18 Petrobras will rebid the disinvestment processes of the Enchova and Pampo packages, located in the Campos Basin. Thus, the company will once again offer the two packages to the companies that submitted firm proposals, together with the consortium Ouro Preto / EIG Global Energy Partners, selected a few months ago for having offered the... Continue Reading →

Please disconsider our previous posting regarding this subject   Rio de Janeiro, 26 of November 2018 - During a ceremony in the Equinor office in Rio de Janeiro on November 26th, Equinor and the Brazilian company GranEnergia signed a contract for the Offshore Accommodation Services for the Peregrino II Project Offshore Brazil. The agreement is... Continue Reading →

Sea-state monitoring specialist Miros Group has won a deal to supply eight oil spill detection (OSD) systems to Brazilian oil major Petrobras. Miros said on Wednesday that the contract was “the world’s largest X-band radar-based OSD surveillance and response contract to date.” The agreement is in partnership with Ulstein Belga Marine, the primary supplier to... Continue Reading →

Rio de Janeiro, November 27, 2018 - Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras reports that today the Administrative Board of Tax Appeals (CARF) issued a decision against the company in administrative tax proceedings on a total estimated amount of R$ 7 billion, arising from tax assessments drawn up by the Federal Revenue Service for the collection... Continue Reading →