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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 →
June 10, 2020 Petrobras started its first drilling campaign in block C-M-657, in the ultra-deep waters of the Campos Basin pre-salt. Well 1-BRSA-1376D-RJS, on the Naru prospect, is drilled in a water depth of 2,892 m. Originally scheduled for May, the campaign had to be postponed to the first week of June due to the... Continue Reading →
June 9, 2020 Petrobras started environmental licensing for drilling a well in block POT-M-952, offshore in the Potiguar Basin. This is the second project that Petrobras is licensing in the region - in April, it started the process for block POT-M-762. - Areas contracted in 2018, in the 15th round of the ANP (concession), at... Continue Reading →
Jun 5, 2020 Important news for the oil and gas sector from Brasilia. The National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) approved incentives for small and medium-sized companies in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas. The collegiate also gave the approval for the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) to define and bid blocks... Continue Reading →
Brazilian federal court has ordered state-run oil company Petrobras SA to rename one of its biggest offshore oil fields currently named "Lula", the special secretary of privatization at the Economy Ministry, Salim Mattar, said late on Wednesday. Back in 2010, Petrobras decided to rename its Tupi field, one of the crown jewels in Brazil’s so-called... Continue Reading →
Jun 3, 2020 Total is testing a new oil transfer system (offloading) using a CTV type vessel (Cargo Transfer Vessel) in the Lapa field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The goal is to analyze the integration and functionality of the CTV, the Sealoader-1, in oil transfer operations. Oil company may extend contract for specialized vessel... Continue Reading →
Jun 2, 2020 Equinor plans to produce the first oil from the Bacalhau field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, in the third quarter of 2024. From then on, the oil company expects continuous operations for 30 years. The information is contained in the study and environmental impact report (EIA-Rima) of the enterprise, presented to Ibama.... Continue Reading →
June 2, 2020 ANP is publishing the Monthly Bulletin of Oil and Natural Gas Production with detailed data for April 2020. This month, production in the Pre-salt was 2.597 MMboe / d (million barrels of oil equivalent per day), the which corresponds to 69.5% of the national total. 2,057 MMbbl / d (million barrels per... Continue Reading →
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