Vallourec will launch a new research center in Rio de Janeiro, expected to be operational next month. The Rio center will focus on all pre-salt activities. Located next to Petrobras’ CENPES research center in the Technological Park of Rio de Janeiro…
Vallourec inaugurated a new research center in Rio de Janeiro, due to open in October. The center, located next to Petrobras’ CENPES, will focus on Vallourec’s pre-salt activities, with the support from Vallourec’s center in Belo Horizonte…
Halliburton opened its new Technology Center at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Technology Park, located at Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The center provides the setting for collaboration as the company works with…
C-MAR Group announced that it won a contract, worth over $500,000, to carry out Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) surveys and trials on Maridive Group vessels for the next five years. The agreement covers 16 Maridive DP vessels to be serviced from C-MAR’s Singapore…
FloaTEC mates P-61 modules FloaTEC Singapore Pte Ltd. mated the topsides and hull of Petrobras P-61, Brazil’s first tension-leg wellhead platform (TLWP) near the BrasFELS yard in Angra dos Reis, southern Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil…
Vallourec today announces the inauguration of a new Research Center in Rio de Janeiro, in the presence of Philippe Crouzet, chairman of Vallourec's Management Board. Due to be operational by October 2013, the Rio Center will focus on all pre-salt activities of the Group…
Saipem was awarded new contracts in Latin America worth about US$500 million. In Venezuela, Saipem signed with Cardon IV to develop the Perla EP Project, in the Gulf of Venezuela. In Brazil, Petrobras assigned an EPCI contract to Saipem…
Petrobras discovered goodquality oil (26° API) in the Entorno de Iara area in the Santos Basin pre-salt region. Well 1-BRSA-1146-RJS (1-RJS-711), known as Entorno de Iara 1, is in 2266m of water, 235km off Rio de Janeiro state. The well produced oil from carbonates at 5045m, just below the salt.
Halliburton announced the opening of its new Technology Center at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Technology Park, located at Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The center provides the setting for collaboration as…
Aker Solutions laid the foundation stone of a new plant in Paraná that will double the company's subsea production capacity in Brazil.The plant in the city of São José dos Pinhais in the Paraná state will be operational in 2015. It will replace…
Aberdeen-based subsea marine equipment rental firm Seatronics, an Acteon company, completed the startup phase of its new facility in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro. The center will serve as an office, workshop and warehouse facility for sales, rental…
Amec is acquiring a 50% stake in Kromav Engenharia, a privately owned Brazilian engineering firm with over 400 marine and offshore projects to its credit. Based in Rio de Janeiro, Kromav has a team of some 200 people specialising in engineering services for offshore platforms…
Torsten Marten (pictured) has taken up the new post of Brazil operations manager at NCS Survey, based in Rio. He joins NCS from Subsea 7, where he was a project surveyor on the Petrobras PRA-1 deepwater tie-in project.
Norwegian technical ship and rig management services provider Star Information Systems (SIS) is establishing a permanent base in Rio de Janeiro, headed by Hans-Kristian Fjaerem. SIS customers operating in Brazil’s burgeoning offshore sector include Teekay Petrojarl…
Frode Sedberg (pictured) has joined Emerson Process Management as regional manager for its Roxar Software Solutions (RSS) division, based in Rio de Janeiro. He was with Odin Petroleum for eight years in various reservoir engineering roles.