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January 29, 2020 The federal government made a change to the re-bidding of the surplus of the Transfer of Rights assignment of Sépia and Atapu, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, and Pre-Salt Petroleum (PPSA) will be responsible for negotiating and defining with Petrobras the value of the indemnity that will be charged to possible partners... Continue Reading →
Jan 29, 2020 A new chapter in the history of Petrobras' problems with flexible risers. A line connected to the FPSO Cidade de Angra dos Reis, located in the Lula field, broke on the 21st. According to Petrobrás, there was no damage to the environment and it was also not necessary to stop production. The... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 But they were less than a third of the volume of oil consumed in 2019! The world still celebrates the modest increase in discoveries of oil resources in 2019, after a period of several years of discoveries far below those of the years until 2015 (Rystad Energy, 2020). Still, even in... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 For the first time, an FPSO installed in the Lula field was the one that produced the most in the country The FPSO P-69 extracted 183,767 thousand boed in November 2019, occupying, for the first time, the top of the list of FPSOs with the highest production in the country, according to... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 Report by consultancy Wood Mackenzie highlights that Petrobras and Shell found evidence of oil and gas in their wells, but nothing economically attractive for now Since 2017, oil companies have paid R$ 42 billion for exploration areas in the Brazilian pre-salt layer, one of the regions most coveted by multinationals. Despite this,... Continue Reading →
JAN 27, 2020 After being declared commercial by Equinor, in December last year, the Carcará area will gain a new name, well befitting the Norwegian culture. The asset will be renamed Bacalhau and the choice is interesting and symbolic because it is the first time, in the last 50 years, that a field in the... Continue Reading →
Dutch shipbuilding company Damen has developed a new concept vessel – the Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) 9020. The vessel has been designed to perform a variety of offshore tasks both at surface level and subsea, Damen said in a statement on Monday. “We were approached by several different operators at the same time, all looking... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 billion oil equivalent barrels and made a further oil discovery northeast of the producing Liza field at the Uaru exploration well, the 16th discovery on the Stabroek Block. The new recoverable resource estimate includes 15 discoveries offshore Guyana through year-end 2019.... Continue Reading →
JAN 24, , 2020 The FPSO P-70, which began its journey to Brazil on December 9 last year, is anchored in Guanabara Bay. The FPSO will carry out its activities in the Atapu field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The unit left the COOEC shipyard in Qingdao, China, where the integration works for the platform... Continue Reading →
January 24, 2020 Petrobras is contracting services and equipment for the new development phase of the project in the Campos Basin The attention of the supply industry returned to Parque das Baleias, a complex of deep water fields in the Campos Basin. In addition to subsea systems, Petrobras is bidding to contract 4D seismic mapping... Continue Reading →
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