"Libra" News

Brazil qualifies 11 for pre-salt bid round

Oct 04, 2013

On Oct.1, Brazil's National Petroleum Agency (Agência Nacional do Petróleo, ANP) said that 11 companies were registered and qualified to bid for pre-salt licenses at the upcoming Santos basin auction. The ultra-deepwater Libra field is estimated…

OTC Brasil: Corporate marriages

Oct 31, 2013

A partnership between companies is a lot like a marriage: some are good, some are strained. That was the tenor of a Wednesday morning panel discussing perspectives on E&P in the South Atlantic that included operators Petrobras, Total, Shell…

Deepwater construction vessels: Brazil with a pinch of (pre) salt?

Oct 29, 2013

By Thom Payne, Douglas-Westwood Singapore Last week’s auction for production rights to Brazil’s 12 billion bbl Libra field has dominated industry headlines. However, despite years of media and market analyst hyperbole the scale of Petrobras’…

Petrobras talks tech investments

Sep 19, 2013

Petrobras President Maria das Graças Silva Foster announced at public hearing in the Brazilian Senate that the company plans to invest R$4 billion in 2013 and R$21.2 billion between 2013-2017 in information technology and telecommunications…

OE13: Pre-salt beckons offshore Brazil

Sep 04, 2013

Representatives from Brazil’s government and oil and gas industry advocated strongly for British investment at UKTI’s panel discussion on Brazil Tuesday morning. “Several companies are going to Brazil, and now is the time to go,” said Carlos Camerini…

Rolling in the deep

Apr 01, 2012

One portion of the Golden Triangle – the Gulf of Mexico – has slipped a notch in its dominance of the global deepwater play while activities in the other two corners – West Africa and Brazil – amped up. In addition, a new region has joined the report this year…

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