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The proposal aims to implement an offshore wind farm in Rio Grande do Norte, with an area of 300 km², 52 wind turbines with 12 MW of installed power, in addition to two electrical substations The construction wind power project of an offshore wind farm in Rio Grande do Norte is getting closer and closer... Continue Reading →
Malaysian FPSO provider Yinson has ordered a large marine compressed air system from TMC for the FPSO Anna Nery, which currently under construction in China, and destined for Petrobras' Marlim revitalization project in Brazil. TMC's compressed air system will consist of four large capacity service and instrument air compressors with associated air dryers and filters. TMC... Continue Reading →
French oil major Total has given up operatorship over five exploration blocks located in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, offshore Brazil. "Total announces that it has notified its partners on August 19 about its resignation from its role of operator for five exploration blocks, located in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, 120 kilometers offshore Brazil,"... Continue Reading →
September 4, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs the conclusion of the Drill Stem Test (DST) in the area of Júpiter Discovery Assessment Plan, located in the Santos Basin presalt. The Jupiter area belongs to the BM-S-24 concession, in which Petrobras is the operator, with an 80% interest, and was acquired in 2001 in... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has extended contracts with offshore services company Subsea 7 for three pipelay support vessels (PLSVs) operating offshore Brazil. Subsea 7 said Friday that the extensions of long-term contracts had a combined value of about $155 million, net of agreed reductions to the current day-rates. Continue reading
Sept 3, 2020 Petrobras is already working on the development of Buzios 9 FPSO and for the other phases of the Santos cluster mega field. The oil company hired Doris Engenharia to develop the basic project for a generic FPSO, with a capacity to produce 225 thousand bopd and compress 12.5 million m³ / d... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 Petrobras in talks with companies that presented lower prices in the bidding. Solstad Offshore presented the lowest price in a bid by Petrobras to hire a vessel to support the operations of underwater robots (RSV). The company offered a daily fee of US $ 53,884.72 with Far Saga, surpassing the proposal presented... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 The Lula field, in the pre-salt of the Santos basin, achieved a feat that is not yet properly recognized internationally: it is today the seventh field with the largest oil production in the world, surpassing emblematic assets in the onshore and offshore of countries like Russia, United States and Iraq. With a... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 ExxonMobil signed a contract with C-Innovation, a company of the Edison Chouest Offshore group, for the chartering of an ROV capable of operating in water depths of up to 4 thousand m. The deal is aimed at the exploratory campaign that will be carried out in Brazil, in early 2021, with the... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 Total started a new environmental licensing process for drilling seven exploratory wells in the area of blocks FZA-M-57, FZA-M-86, FZAM-88, FZA-M-125 and FZA-M-127, in the Basin of Foz do Amazonas. The company was forced to restart the licensing of the projects after the environmental agency dismissed, in April last year, the reconsideration... Continue Reading →
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