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Oct 24, 2019 With an eye on the development of the Carcará and Carcará Norte areas in the Santos Basin, Equinor engaged Seabed Geosolutions to run its first 3D seismic campaign with ocean-bottom nodes in the country. The campaign will cover an area of 410 km², in deep water. Mapping will begin in the second... Continue Reading →
Oct 24, 2019 Karoon will raise AUD 284 million (US $ 194.42 million) to complete financing for the acquisition of the Bauna field, located in block BM-S-40, in the Santos Basin. The operation also aims to support future projects of the company. According to Karoon director Robert Hosking, the measure represents the final stage of... Continue Reading →
Petrobras and Brazil will continue to dominate the deployment of global FPSOs over the next five years, data and analytics company GlobalData has reported. According to GlobalData, Petrobras is expected to deploy six planned and nine announced FPSOs by 2025. GlobalData says that during the 2019 – 2025 period, the year 2023 will witness the... Continue Reading →
Oct 23, 2019 After nearly five months of negotiations, Petrobras signs contract to replace lost shipwrecked equipment Siemens and Petrobras signed a contract to supply four generators for the P-71, replacing those lost in the shipwreck in mid-May. According to sources, the removal of the new equipment will be made until January by the winner... Continue Reading →
Expanding output from the pre-salt province starts to bear fruit for the Brazilian company Petrobras, the Brazilian state-owned oil company, recorded strong production performance across the third quarter, as record figures in the pre-salt region helped boost the firm’s upstream portfolio. Total hydrocarbon output for the quarter reached 2.88mn bl oe/d, a 9.3pc increase over... Continue Reading →
Norway's Equinor ASA is scouting locations on Brazil's coast to install new natural gas infrastructure, the company's Brazil chief said, as the firm's gas-heavy offshore fields come on-line in the coming years. Natural gas is considered both a promising opportunity and a vexing problem in Brazil. The Latin American oil powerhouse is rapidly developing a... Continue Reading →
An auction next month of oilfields in Brazil may be the priciest ever held, raising at least $50 billion in licensing fees and compensation, according to people familiar with government estimates. Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and other energy giants are set to vie for deep-sea deposits that could hold 15 billion barrels... Continue Reading →
Oct 21, 2019 The National Council of Energy Policy - CNPE, approved the blocks for the 17th Bidding Round, in the Concession modality, scheduled for 2020. 128 blocks will be offered in the maritime sedimentary basins of Pará-Maranhão, Potiguar, Campos, Santos and Pelotas, totaling 64.1 thousand km². The blocks selected for the event are in... Continue Reading →
October 21, 2019 Shell announced the sale of 30% of its stake in the project Gato do Mato, which includes exploratory blocks BM-S-54 and Sul de Gato do Mato, in the Santos Basin, to Ecopetrol. With this operation, which has to be approved by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) and the Administrative Council for Economic... Continue Reading →
Oct 18 ,2019 Field areas in the Campos Basin should be included in the ANP permanent offer regime. Petrobras informed the ANP of its interest in voluntarily returning the areas of modules 1 and 2 of the Espadarte field in the Campos Basin. If the order is approved, the areas - which have not been... Continue Reading →
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