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Oct. 31 - The Búzios field, operated by Petrobras in the Santos Basin, reached on Wednesday (10/29) a record daily average production of 1 million barrels per day, surpassing the previous mark of 900 thousand reached in August. The largest field in the country in reserves, Búzios is the second Petrobras field to exceed the production mark of 1 million barrels per day. The... Continue Reading →
Nov. 3 - Petrobras has contracted Allseas to provide a subsea solution with rigid risers for the Atapu-2 pre-salt field, located 230 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The contract, obtained through a bidding process, covers the design, acquisition, construction, and installation of 143 kilometers of rigid risers and pipelines in water depths... Continue Reading →
Nov. 3 (offshore-energy.biz) Three pipelay support vessels (PLSVs) owned by a joint venture of DOF and TechnipFMC have secured contract extensions with Brazil’s oil and gas firm Petrobras. The current contracts of the 142-meter-long Skandi Vitória and Skandi Niterói have been extended from the fourth quarter of 2025 until the first quarter of 2027. The three-year contracts announced in June 2024 will... Continue Reading →
Oct 30 (Reuters) - Brazil's Petrobras has authorized studies for a logistics center in the Amazonian state of Amapa, where the state-run oil firm started exploring in a promising offshore block last week, state Governor Clecio Luis told Reuters. The company's logistics subsidiary Transpetro will do the studies, Luis said, adding the center would support... Continue Reading →
Oct. 29(Reuters) Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras is in negotiations with SBM Offshore over two floating production vessels to be commissioned for its Sergipe deepwater projects, Petrobras head of Exploration and Production said on Wednesday. Petrobras hopes to lower costs and speed up delivery of the two vessels, Sylvia Anjos said on the sidelines of the OTC conference in... Continue Reading →
Maersk Supply Service, with the support of Maritime Developments (MDL), has completed a complex dynamic riser assembly installation at Brazil’s Mero field in the pre-salt Santos Basin, connecting the deepwater site to a Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) sensor grid. The project featured MDL’s largest equipment spread to date, mobilized from Peterhead, Scotland, on board the... Continue Reading →
Oct. 28 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras announces that the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré, operating in the Búzios field, located in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, reached a record instantaneous production flow equivalent to 270,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) last Saturday (October 25). On average, the platform’s production exceeded 250,000 bpd... Continue Reading →
Oct. 24 - Petrobras produced 2.52 million bpd of oil in Brazil in the quarter, up about 18%. Beyond the new 11 wells, the firm said the output increase came from a floating production vessel reaching peak production, another increasing capacity and four ramping up. The firm's total oil, gas and gas liquids production stood... Continue Reading →
Oct. 24 - Petrobras has requested authorization from Ibama (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) to drill three contingent wells in the block. The oil company is currently drilling the Morpho well, in a water depth of 2,887 meters – the drilling is expected to last approximately five months. The drillship used in... Continue Reading →
Oct. 23 (oilnow) TechnipFMC has delivered another solid quarter, reporting total revenue of US$2.65 billion for the third quarter of 2025. Net income attributable to the company was US$309.7 million, or US$0.75 per diluted share, while adjusted net income reached US$312.1 million. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) stood at US$518.9 million,... Continue Reading →
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