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Yinson Production, a subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur-based energy infrastructure and technology company Yinson Holdings, has hosted dignitaries from Brazil, who came to visit a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, destined to work at Enauta’s field off the coast of Brazil. At the start of December 2023, several dignitaries – Rui Costa, Chief of Staff at... Continue Reading →
(OET) U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford International has secured a multi-year contract to deliver drill pipe riser (DPR) intervention services to Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras. Weatherford announced it had been awarded a five-year contract with Petrobras in Brazil, after a competitive tender, to provide DPR ultra-deepwater offshore intervention systems and services. The new seven-system... Continue Reading →
(OET) Italian cabling giant Prysmian has secured a contract worth over €100 million with Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras for the provision of umbilicals and steel tube. Under the contract, Prysmian will deliver 170 kilometers of deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals and the related specialized offshore and logistic services. The deep-water steel tube and thermoplastic umbilicals... Continue Reading →
(PN) The board of directors of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) approved the geological and economic studies that resulted in the delimitation of two more pre-salt exploratory blocks: Rubi and Granada, both located in the Santos Basin. The agency will forward the studies to the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) to analyze the feasibility... Continue Reading →
The ODN-II drillship, which will be used to drill the Pitu Oeste well, in the Potiguar Basin, is already heading towards the location, on the coast of Rio Grande do Norte. Drilling, scheduled to begin in December, will take place in block BM-POT-17. This will mark Petrobras' return to the Equatorial Margin, which stretches from... Continue Reading →
(PN) Well drilling work in the Wahoo field, in the Campos Basin, should begin in January, when the environmental license should be issued by IBAMA. The projection was presented this week by the CEO of PRIO, Roberto Monteiro, during an event with investors. The four wells planned in the area will be drilled by the... Continue Reading →
The Brazilian Institute of the Environment (Ibama) granted TGS the environmental license for multi-client 3D seismic research activity in the Pará-Maranhão and Foz do Amazonas Basins, in the Equatorial Margin region. The document will be valid for three years and can be renewed. According to Ibama, TGS will be able to carry out the activity... Continue Reading →
(OET) Brazilian oil and gas player Enauta has brought back on stream another well at a field offshore Brazil while a third well is anticipated to return to production in the next 30 days. After Enauta found issues in the subsea pumping electrical system adopted for the FPSO Petrojarl I, the firm temporarily halted the Atlanta field’s production in July 2023. Following the... Continue Reading →
As part of the commitment to identify, measure and reduce methane emissions linked to their activities, TotalEnergies and Petrobras began a collaboration to carry out an evaluation campaign using drone methane measurement technology on FPSO P-70, dedicated to production from the Atapu field, located in the Santos basin in Brazil. In 2022, TotalEnergies set ambitious... Continue Reading →
The FPSO Pioneiro de Libra (PDL), an asset of the Altera&Ocyan joint venture, has just completed six years of operation, in the same year that the Brazilian Pre-salt celebrates seventeen years of its discovery. Since the first oil, in 2017, the platform ship, responsible for the Long Term Test (TLD) and the Early Production Systems... Continue Reading →
