Sea-state monitoring specialist Miros Group has won a deal to supply eight oil spill detection (OSD) systems to Brazilian oil major Petrobras. Miros said on Wednesday that the contract was “the world’s largest X-band radar-based OSD surveillance and response contract to date.” The agreement is in partnership with Ulstein Belga Marine, the primary supplier to... Continue Reading →

Rio de Janeiro, November 27, 2018 - Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras reports that today the Administrative Board of Tax Appeals (CARF) issued a decision against the company in administrative tax proceedings on a total estimated amount of R$ 7 billion, arising from tax assessments drawn up by the Federal Revenue Service for the collection... Continue Reading →

November 27, 2018 Argentina is launching a Tender for Hydrocarbon Exploration in areas of the Argentine Continental Shelf in the south of the country. The consulate in Brazil is inviting Brazilian companies to integrate this process. The search is for the incorporation of new reserves and the recovery of production, in order to achieve security... Continue Reading →

Rio de Janeiro, November 28, 2018 - Petróleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras announces that it has signed with Perenco the contracts for the transfer of Petrobras' total participation in the Pargo, Carapeba and Vermelho fields, called the Northeast Pole, located in shallow waters off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The assets... Continue Reading →

Rio de Janeiro, November 28, 2018 - Petróleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras informs that the Board of Directors approved, yesterday, the assignment of its total participation in 34 terrestrial production fields, located in the Potiguar Basin, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte , to the company 3R Petroleum. The assets The 34 concessions... Continue Reading →

Rio de Janeiro, November 27, 2018 - Petróleo Brasileiro SA - Petrobras informs that in October its total production of oil and gas, including natural gas liquids (NGL), was 2.66 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), 2.54 million boed produced in Brazil and 119 thousand boed abroad. The total operated production of the... Continue Reading →

Brazil has more than doubled the number of risky ship-to-ship oil transfers this year, but its monitoring of such offshore maneuvers is lax, to a point where a July 2017 collision between two tankers was not reported, according to a Reuters review of government and shipping records. Transfers are projected to keep rising as the... Continue Reading →

1/27/18 Spectrum was authorized by ANP to extend the multi-client 3D seismic survey in the southern region of the Santos Basin, close to pre-salt discoveries. The area of ​​the campaign is 14.800 km ². The survey is being done in an area that covers blocks offered in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th rounds of the pre-salt... Continue Reading →

In a quarterly report on Tuesday, Seadrill said Petronas recently awarded the West Carina drillship a two-well contract in Malaysia starting in December 2018 for two wells, adding approximately $29 million in backlog. The contract is expected to end in May 2019. The West Carina, built in 2014, is the 6th generation ultra-deepwater drillship with operational... Continue Reading →