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Brazil an important market, says Sandvik

Oct 26, 2016

Sandvik presented its wide range of corrosion-resistant products including umbilical tubing, OCTG tubing, downhole control lines, hydraulic lines for drilling risers, tubing for sand screens, subsea piping material, welding products and slicklines…

Exxon's Liza-3 proves successful

Oct 26, 2016

ExxonMobil's Liza discovery, offshore Guyana, has upped its potential due to the company's successful run at the Liza-3 appraisal well, according to partner Hess Corp. The Steana Carron, from Stena…

GranEnergia, Prumo form JV

Oct 25, 2016

GranEnergia and Prumo Logística have formed the joint venture, Dome, to offer integrated service solutions for the oil and gas industry. Açu Port. Image from Prumo. Dome will be centralized in Açu Port in Brazil…

MODEC upgrades Brazil FPSOs communications

Oct 24, 2016

O3b Networks, technology solutions company RigNet and floating production service provider MODEC, have agreed to provide high-throughput, low latency connectivity for MODEC’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels off the coast of Brazil…

Petrobras, Total form strategic alliance

Oct 24, 2016

Brazil’s Petrobras and France’s Total have entered into a strategic alliance for upstream and downstream activities in Brazil, that will expand internationally.  Image of Pouyanné, from Total. Petrobras…

Seabird announces Belize seismic activity

Oct 24, 2016

SeaBird Exploration has said it is to acquire a long-offset survey in Belize, starting mid-October 2016. SeaBird will use the Northern Explorer to acquire the survey and the anticipated duration of the program is three to four weeks. Seismic activity offshore Belize…

Aker to buy majority stake in Brazil's CSE

Oct 21, 2016

Aker Solutions entered into an agreement to buy 70% of Brazilian CSE Mecânica e Instrumentação Ltda, in which the deal comes with an option to purchase the remaining 30% of the company three years after the expected close of the transaction by the end of Q1 2017…

Aqualis inks Brazil FPSO trio gig

Oct 20, 2016

Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has been awarded contracts to provide marine warranty services to three different floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) projects in Brazil. Modec has appointed Aqualis…

QGEP to buy Pacific Brazil blocks

Oct 17, 2016

QGEP Participações entered into an agreement with its partner, Pacific Brasil Exploração e Produção de Óleo e Gás Ltda., to acquire working interest in three blocks in the Foz do Amazonas and the Pará-Maranhão basins (PAMA), offshore Brazil…

A pinch of pre-salt

Oct 17, 2016

After a thoroughly no good, very bad, couple of years for Brazil, the country is on the path to reform, and the first part starts with the country’s coveted pre-salt. Audrey Leon reports on what the opening means for the country and its state-owned oil company…

Karoon to buy Petrobras stake in two fields

Oct 06, 2016

Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) is in negotiations with Karoon Gas Australia to sell its stake in the Baúna and Tartaruga Verde fields, offshore Brazil. The proposed deal will see the sale of 100% stake in the Baúna field, in the shallow waters of post-salt Santos Basin…

FES delivers DBSCs to Altanta field

Oct 06, 2016

FES International delivered nine diverless bend stiffener connectors (DBSC) to the Atlanta field in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, operated by Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP). The DBSCs, a part of a multi-million dollar contract between FES and QGEP…

Petrobras relaunches Libra FPSO bid

Oct 05, 2016

Petrobras has relaunched the bid process for its Libra Pilot floating production and storage offloading vessel (FPSO), following the cancelation of the previous bid process due to “an abnormally high price.” Image of Libra field operations…

CGG starts latest 3D Santos Basin shoot

Oct 05, 2016

CGG has started a large broadband 3D multi-client survey in the pre-salt area of the deep water Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Santos VII (Saturno) is the third phase in CGG’s most ambitious pre-salt project to date, collectively known as the Santos Basin Trilogy…

Preparing for pre-salt

Oct 01, 2016

Jerry Lee speaks with Seadrill to discover how the firm prepared for drilling operations on the giant Libra field offshore Brazil. RGH (riser gas handling system) riser joint in the moonpool during running…

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