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Sept. 17 (PN) This week, Petrobras received a preliminary license from the Brazilian Institute of the Environment (IBAMA) for Stage 4 of the Santos Basin. The project aims to further expand the production and transportation of oil and natural gas from the pre-salt layer. The project involves the installation and operation of 10 platform ships,... Continue Reading →
Sept. 16 (OE) Perenco has started active field reactivation program for the Cherne and Bagre fields in Campos Basin, acquired from Petrobras earlier in 2025, helping meet the industry’s mature field challenges and unlocking in excess of 50 mmstb of reserves. The multi-dimensional, two-year, reactivation program was designed to be executed in three linked stages... Continue Reading →
Sept. 3 (OE) Engineers in the U.K. and Brazil have developed a tentacle-like underwater robot that could change how subsea pipelines and offshore structures are inspected, offering a safer and more precise alternative to conventional rigid systems. The one-meter-long flexible manipulator, created by the U.K.’s National Robotarium and Brazil’s Senai Cimatec, features a soft, bendy... Continue Reading →
Sept. 1 (OE) U.S.-based subsea services and technology firm Oceaneering International has through its Brazilian subsidiary Marine Production Systems do Brasil (MPS) secured multiple subsea robotics contracts from Petrobras. The contracts were awarded during the second quarter of 2025, following a competitive tender. The anticipated aggregate revenue of the contracts is approximately $180 million. Oceaneering... Continue Reading →
Aug 26 (Reuters) - Japan's industry and land ministries on Tuesday proposed revising guidelines to extend offshore wind project leases by 10 years, from the current 30 years, to help developers manage soaring construction costs and complete projects. The proposal was submitted to a joint expert panel of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry... Continue Reading →
Aug. 14 (offshoreWIND.biz) Brazil’s Centre for Gas Technologies and Renewable Energies (CTGAS-ER), part of the country’s SENAI Institute for Innovation in Renewable Energy, and the UK-based Ocean Energy Pathway have launched the first joint training programme focused on offshore wind energy in Brazil. Later this month, SENAI will also launch a postgraduate course in offshore... Continue Reading →
Aug 11 (PN) Seagems completed the BRAVA Project, carried out in the Atlanta Field, in the Santos Basin. Signed in 2022, the contract included an EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation) campaign, developed in partnership with its shareholder Sapura Energy. The final phase began in April 2024, with the mobilization of the vessel Onix to... Continue Reading →
(TN) Petrobras has signed R$1.2 billion charter and nautical operation and hotel service contracts for two self-elevating Liftboat vessels. These vessels will support maintenance and readiness operations for fixed platforms to be decommissioned in the Sergipe-Alagoas and Rio Grande do Norte-Ceará basins. The commercial agreement, resulting from a bidding process, was signed with OOS International... Continue Reading →
Portuguese company Mota-Engil announced that it has signed a new and important contract with Petrobras worth approximately R$1.56 billion (around 240 million euros). The agreement is estimated to last 60 months and involves a wide range of services related to the decommissioning of subsea assets in three oil fields in the Campos Basin: Marlim, Marlim... Continue Reading →
In the new era of austerity, project simplification and cost cutting announced by Petrobras, expenses with platform ships (FPSOs) will certainly be the center of attention of the company's board of directors. The company now aims to limit the amount paid for these platforms to US$ 3.5 billion. The oil company's Director of Engineering, Technology... Continue Reading →
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