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Sept 02, 2019 The Minister of Mines and Energy, Bento Albuquerque, responded today to the Letter of Resignation received from Márcio Felix Carvalho Bezerra, Secretary of Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels, on Friday Aug. 30,. Source: MME
Subsea 7 has secured a contract from Total for the development of the Lapa North East field offshore Brasil. The field is located approximately 300 kilometres off the coast of the State of São Paulo, at 2,150 metres water depth in the pre-salt Santos Basin. The work scope includes the transport, installation and pre-commissioning of... Continue Reading →
JFD said it has delivered the world’s first saturation diving products rated to a depth of 500 meters. The products have been developed as part of a saturation diving system for what JDF says is a leading offshore service provider. Continue reading
Sept 2, 2019 DOF’s subsidiary Norskan and Petrobras have signed a 1-year extension for the AHTS Skandi Fluminense. The vessel, built in 2007, is an AHTS 18.000 with one work-class ROV operated by DOF Subsea on board. According to DOF, the new deal should see the vessel employed until September 2020. The contract extension... Continue Reading →
Aug 30, 2019 Petrobras' main projects today are focused on natural gas, whose exploration focuses on deep water. There are several development fronts in this arena, which involve resources of US $ 3.7 billion. The most important of them, the so-called Route 3, is under implementation. The Integrated Route 3 Project, with a capacity of... Continue Reading →
Aug 30, 2019 The ANP approved the assignment of responsibility for the operation and 20% of Anadarko's stake to BP Energy, in block BM-C-32, in the Campos Basin. In 2016, the US oil company took over the operation of the asset that, until then, was in the hands of BP itself. The regulatory agency board... Continue Reading →
Aug 30, 2019 Decommissioning of platforms should generate $ 50 billion of investments for the naval industry. Rio de Janeiro will concentrate the works with the decommissioning of 21 old oil rigs installed in the Campos Basin, which need to have their equipment disassembled and uninstalled. The statement comes from the Secretary of State for... Continue Reading →
August 29, 2019 - Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 08/28/2019, reports that Modec has reported to the company that, this Thursday morning, the Salvage team boarded the FPSO Cidade do Rio de Janeiro again to proceed with the activities to prepare the decommissioning and removal of the vessel.... Continue Reading →
August 29, 2019 A new survey by EY and the Brazilian Petroleum Institute (IBP) provided an updated overview of the importance of the oil and gas sector for the Brazilian economy. Currently, the oil industry occupies the third place in the ranking of the main economic activities and is fourth in relation to exports. Research... Continue Reading →
Repsol Sinopec Brazil, Ouro Negro and the Mechanical Engineering Department of PUC-Rio’s Technical and Scientific Center (CTC/PUC-Rio) are expanding their technological partnership, developing a through tubing logging profiling tool to assess cement quality in lined wells. “The proposal is to have a tool that enables the detection of cement anomalies in the adjacent layer and... Continue Reading →
