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Norwegian oilfield services company Aker Solutions and a group of oil and gas operators have come together in a joint industry project with the aim of making subsea gas separation a reality. Using CO2 injection to increase recovery rates in offshore oil and gas fields can improve the economics of a field significantly, but so... Continue Reading →
Nov 13, 2019 Shell International Trading Middle East Limited has signed a commitment agreement with Hidrovias do Brasil to supply LNG to the Vila do Conde thermal power plant (UTE), which the Brazilian company intends to build in Barcarena, Pará. The agreement with the Anglo-Dutch oil company subsidiary foresees fuel supply for 25 years, if... Continue Reading →
November 5, 2019 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras clarifies that it has been fully complying with the schedule of commitments made in the agreement signed with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) on July 8, 2019. It is worth mentioning the pre-established commitments in the agreement and that have been fulfilled by Petrobras: •... Continue Reading →
Nov 01, 2019 Petrobras Natural Gas Executive Manager Rodrigo Costa Lima said that the installation of a floating gas terminal could be the solution for the production of new pre-salt fields. The decision, he says, has to be made by 2022 to absorb production growth in the second half of the next decade, and has... Continue Reading →
Nov 1, 2019 Petrobras is due to start production in Sergipe's deepwater in December when it intends to test the Farfan reservoir, one of the discoveries made in the region. The plan foresees the installation of FPSO Cidade de São Vicente, connected to a production well. It took longer than expected to complete cleaning of... Continue Reading →
BP Plc (BP.L) wants to be part of an effort to build up natural gas infrastructure in Brazil, an executive said on Tuesday, and believes a power plant it is building in Rio de Janeiro could eventually be supplied by gas from offshore oilfields here. Speaking at Rio’s Offshore Technology Conference on Tuesday, BP Regional... 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 →
Oct 18, 2019 Project forecasts supply of thermoelectric plant in Roraima with natural gas produced in the field Eneva has begun construction of the Azulão field liquefaction terminal in the Amazon Basin. The integrated project also includes the installation of a gas treatment unit and the construction of a thermoelectric plant in the municipality of... Continue Reading →
Oct 17, 2019 The electricity sector has entered the radar of major global oil companies, eager to consolidate in Brazil a consumer market for their respective natural gas production, whether from pre-salt or from abroad, through the importation of liquefied natural gas (LNG). ). Encouraged by the process of opening the Brazilian gas market, companies... Continue Reading →
ONGC Videsh, international business of the Indian oil company ONGC, has announced two discoveries in Brazil and Colombia. The company on Wednesday said it had made a major gas discovery at the Moita Bonita-2 well in the deepwater block BM-SEAL-4, Brazil in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin. Petrobras as operator of BM-SEAL-4 consortium with ONGC Videsh,... Continue Reading →
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