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Norwegian seismic acquisition company PGS has said that its Ramform Titan has completed a seismic survey project in Brazil, breaking a streamer spread record in the process. The company said Tuesday that it had completed the survey on the first two parts of a new long-offset GeoStreamer-X seismic survey in Campos Basin. Continue reading
June 15, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 05/13/2020, informs the beginning of the non-binding phase regarding the sale of four thermal power plants, three of them located in Camaçari, in the state of Bahia and powered by fuel oil (UTEs Polo Camaçari), and one bi-fuel plant... Continue Reading →
BW’s floating storage and regasification unit has arrived at a new terminal in the Brazilian Port Acu to start its contract serving Gas Natural Acu’s LNG-to-power project. The FSRU BW Magna finally docked at the project’s regasification terminal on Friday. The vessel has been waiting offshore the port since January to get a green light to dock... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA has told shippers it will not hire any tankers that have visited Venezuela in the past 12 months, the state-controlled oil company said on Friday, signaling adherence to U.S. sanctions on the Latin American nation. The United States this year blacklisted oil tankers and shipping companies over their dealings with Venezuela,... Continue Reading →
June 12, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on 03/13/2020 and 05/04/2020, announces the beginning of the binding phase regarding the joint sale, with Wobben Windpower Indústria e Comércio Ltda (Wobben), of all of its shares (51% Wobben and 49% Petrobras) in the companies Eólica Mangue Seco 3... Continue Reading →
JUN 11, 2020 With the approval by the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro of the bill that internalizes Repetro Industrialização in the state, Rio de Janeiro guarantees the maintenance of the ICMS rate at 3% for operations importing equipment (platforms, platform ships and other equipment) for the oil and gas industry, in operations carried... Continue Reading →
Jun 10, 2020 The Ministry of Mines and Energy presented the schedule for the auction of Sepia and Atapu, remaining from the Transfer of Rights. The federal government expects the announcement to be published in the second quarter of next year, followed by the auction in the third quarter of 2021. Earlier this month, Minister... Continue Reading →
Jun 10, 2020 Ocyan offers the oil and gas sector a new paradigm for drilling in water depths below 500 meters using a drillship in dynamic positioning, without the use of anchoring. The novelty was achieved for the first time last month with the Norbe VIII rig, in the Albacora field, in the Campos Basin... Continue Reading →
Jun 10, 2020 Petrobras has qualified ten companies to participate in the next bidding process to contract its own FPSO under the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) model: Brasfels and EBR (Brazil), Daewoo Shipbuilding, Hyundai and Samsumg (South Korea), Keppel Singapore , SBM (Netherlands), Technip (based in London) and Modec and Toyo (Japan). The Italian... Continue Reading →
June 10, 2020 The company Pre-Sal Petróleo (PPSA) released today (10) the first Monthly Bulletin of Production Sharing Contracts, which reveals that, in April, the total production of oil under sharing in the pre-salt area, including consortia and Union, reached 56 thousand barrels per day (bpd). The bulletins will be monthly. Created in November 2013,... Continue Reading →
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