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Jan. 8 (PN) The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) has requested clarifications from Petrobras before authorizing the resumption of drilling at the Morpho well in the Foz do Amazonas Basin. The activity was suspended after two auxiliary lines connected to the ODN-II drillship, chartered by Foresea, registered a loss of drilling fluid last Sunday. The ANP... Continue Reading →
Jan. 8 - The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) sent an official letter to Petrobras (PETR3;PETR4), requesting technical information about the biodegradable fluid leak accident during offshore drilling activity in Block FZA-M-59, on the Equatorial Margin. The letter was sent by the General Coordination of Environmental Licensing of Marine and Coastal... Continue Reading →
Jan. 8 (OE) Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has extended the previously agree four-year contract with Petrobras for its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel Normand Turquesa. The current Normand Turquesa contract with Petrobras has been extended by one year, and the start of the previously announced four-year contract has been amended from the... Continue Reading →
Jan. 6 (PN) The first operational challenge for Petrobras in the search for oil on the Equatorial Margin. The oil company halted drilling at the Morpho well, in block FZA-M-059, off the coast of Amapá last Sunday (4). In a note sent today the oil company explained that it interrupted the activity after identifying the... Continue Reading →
Jan. 6 (OE) Chinese multinational oilfield equipment and services provider Jereh Group has delivered slop treatment units and oil purifiers to CIMC Raffles for Petrobras’ P84 and P85 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units, bound for deployment at the Atapu and Sépia fields, off Brazil. The equipment will support slop water and oil separation... Continue Reading →
Jan. 5 - In November 2025, Brazil produced 4.921 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) of oil and natural gas. The data was released today by the ANP in its Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin. Regarding oil, 3.773 million barrels per day (bbl/d) were extracted, a 6.4% decrease compared to the... Continue Reading →
Jan. 5 (Reuters) Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras expects to start production at its P-79 oil platform in the Santos Basin in the second quarter, director for engineering, technology and innovation Renata Baruzzi told Reuters on Friday. Petrobras had previously projected the start of production at the P-79 platform for August this year. The platform... Continue Reading →
Jan. 2, 2026 - Petrobras began oil production from the P-78 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Búzios field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, this Wednesday, December 31. Búzios 6 (P-78) has the capacity to produce 180,000 barrels of oil and 7.2 million m³ of gas per day. The... Continue Reading →
Dec. 31 - Petrobras has postponed the deadline for receiving bids in the tender for chartering AHTS (Anchor Handling Tug Supply) vessels to the end of January 2026.This measure is part of a set of adjustments to the state-owned company's contracting schedule for the offshore sector, aiming to allow the market and Brazilian Shipping Companies... Continue Reading →
Dec 30 (Reuters) - Brazilian union Sindipetro-NF, one of the largest representing Petrobras workers, accepted on Tuesday a counteroffer from the state-run oil company for a labor deal, suspending a strike launched earlier this month. Sindipetro-NF was the only one among more than ten unions affiliated with FUP, an umbrella organization for oil workers, that remained... Continue Reading →
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