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JDR Cables, the global subsea cable supplier and service provider, part of the TFKable Group, has announced a strategic expansion into Brazil where it has opened a new service centre in Macaé, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The service centre began operations in Q3 2024, providing clients with in-country technical and service... Continue Reading →
(OE) Maersk Supply Service has awarded Scottish flex-lay specialist Maritime Developments (MDL) a solution-development scope in the Mero block in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The scope entails the development of an integrated spread of equipment and expert personnel to support installation of a dynamic riser assembly, which will enable connection to a grid of... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Italy’s cable systems giant Prysmian has provided a solution to a tie-back project in the pre-salt layer off the coast of Brazil, which it describes as a groundbreaking system envisioned to connect fields 30 kilometers (km) away to a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit, enabling fast-tracked development of an oil project with... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oilfield services company TechnipFMC has been awarded two multi-million-dollar subsea contracts by Petrobras for the pre-salt fields offshore Brazil. The first contract, deemed substantial by TechnipFMC, is to design, engineer, and manufacture riser flexible pipe, and for the supply of associated services including packing and storage. Substantial contract for TechnipFMC means its worth is... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Petrobras' (PETR4.SA), opens new tab new multi-year strategic plan will have greater focus on upstream operations than the previous one, Chief Financial Officer Fernando Melgarejo said on Monday, as the Brazilian state-run firm looks to rebuild oil and gas reserves. Melgarejo told Reuters that the 2025-2029 plan, which is currently being drafted, does not foresee... Continue Reading →
(OE) French tubular solutions supplier Vallourec has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Matt’s subsidiary Thermotite do Brasil, a specialized provider of thermal insulation pipe coating services for the offshore oil and gas industry. The acquisition price is $17.5 million, on a cash-free, debt-free basis, subject to customary price adjustments, including working capital. Thermotite’s... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Soil moisture in Brazil's main river basins used for hydropower generation has fallen to nearly two-decade lows, data collected by the London Stock Exchange Group shows, threatening a prolonged impact from a serious drought even after rains return. Tropical rains feeding Brazil's vast network of rivers typically allow hydropower plants to generate around... Continue Reading →
– Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that a favorable final arbitration award has been handed down in one of the arbitrations taking place before B3's Market Arbitration Chamber (CAM). This arbitration was initiated by an association and was intended to be collective, trying to encompass all Petrobras shareholders who acquired shares on B3 between... Continue Reading →
(PN) Brava Energia (formed by the merger between 3R and Enauta) announced it has received the operating license from the Brazilian Institute of the Environment (Ibama) for the Atlanta platform ship (FPSO), which will be installed in the field of the same name, in the Santos Basin. The company is now working to obtain approval... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras announces that it has begun the procedures for the start-up of the largest natural gas processing unit (UPGN) in Brazil, located in Itaboraí, in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. On September 9th, the company obtained authorization from the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) for... Continue Reading →
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