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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 →
Oct 15, 2019 The National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) intends to lead the structuring of a model that enables the construction of gas pipelines to drain future gas production from pre-salt fields, which in addition to financing the works will include the search for investors for the ventures, a bank superintendent told... Continue Reading →
The first version of the Indicative Gas Pipeline Plan (IGP), prepared by EPE, mapped 11 potential projects for the extension of the natural gas transmission network, totaling about 2,000 km of new pipelines. - They represent an estimated investment of R $ 17 billion, to increase the national transportation capacity by 124 million m³ /... Continue Reading →
October 09, 2019 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras reports that, following up to the Strategic Partnership signed on 12/18/2017, celebrated today a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Equinor ASA – Equinor, a company based in Oslo (Norway), focused on the joint development of businesses related to the value chain of natural gas produced from the... Continue Reading →
OCT 07, 2019 Brazil may receive investments to build at least 15 new pipelines in the coming years in this wave of expansion of the country's gas market. All from private investments. At least that's what the Energy Research Company (EPE) is projecting as potential for a new market. If this forecast is confirmed, it... Continue Reading →
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