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GE appoints new leader for Latin America

Sep 17, 2014

Patricia Vega is the new president and CEO of GE Oil & Gas for Latin America. Vega will be responsible to maintain the prominent position assumed by the company in the oil and gas market, contributing to the development of customized…

Rio Oil and Gas: Brazil could become top 10 producer

Sep 16, 2014

Brazil could be poised to become one of the largest oil producers in the world, according to senior executives speaking at this year’s Rio Oil and Gas conference.  Monday’s Shell luncheon at the event offered an outlook on the changes…

Brazil announces 2015 Round

Sep 16, 2014

If the expected increase in Brazilian oil production continues, Brazil will become a crude oil exporter by 2018, with a forecasted export volume of between 1.5-2MMb/d, Magda Chambriard, General Manager of the ANP (Brazil's National Petroleum Agency)…

Dow introduces several technologies at Rio Oil & Gas

Sep 15, 2014

Dow is introducing technologies developed for multiple oil and gas applications, including extraction, production, refining, gas treatment and oil distribution, at Rio Oil & Gas 2014. Dow says their technologies improve energy efficiency…

GE introduces Naxys A10

Sep 15, 2014

GE Oil & Gas is releasing industrial internet solutions at Rio Oil & Gas that include: Sealytics BOP Advisor, Field Vantage, LNG Max Reliability, Naxys A10 and System 1 Fleet Management. The Naxys A10 is an integrated acoustic solution for monitoring equipment and its surrounding environment…

Cameroon launches bid round

Jan 22, 2014

Cameroon's state oil company National Hydrocarbons Corp. (SNH) announced that it will offer a licensing round for four blocks, three offshore: Bomana, Lungahe, and Ndian River, all in the Rio Del Rey basin. The Bomana block covers 139…

Noble Energy makes deepwater discoveries

Dec 04, 2013

Noble Energy has made two deepwater discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Israel. The Dantzler exploration well, located 12 miles west of the firm’s Rio Grande development in Mississippi Canyon 782, has encountered over 120 ft of net pay…

Technip signs four-year deal with Petrobras

Sep 04, 2013

Technip signed a four-year frame agreement with Petrobras for projects modifications services for the Rio de Janeiro Operations Unit, including existing offshore platforms located in the Campos Basin area, Brazil. The services comprise basic and detailed design…

Vallourec will launch a new research center in Rio de Janeiro

Sep 01, 2013

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 opens R&D center in Rio

Jul 09, 2013

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…

Rosneft, PDVSA join forces

Jul 02, 2013

Russia's Rosneft and Venezuela's PDVSA struck a deal concerning the implementation of projects offshore Venezuela. The agreement calls for the two companies to conduct joint studies evaluating technical and economic viability of offshore gas and condensate production in Venezuela…

Brazil hungry for infrastructure investment

May 23, 2013

Brazil-Açu Superport, largest port infrastructure in Latin America, bets on Petrobras’ participation. Peter Wertheim provides the details. According to a recent study by Booz & Company cited by Brazil’s National Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP)…

Aker to open new Brazilian plant

May 23, 2013

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…

Having fun with heavy oil

Nov 01, 2012

Some notable heavy oil projects offshore Brazil are entering advanced phases to increase or maintain production. Russell McCulley reports from Rio de Janeiro on the latest developments at three Campos Basin fields – Statoil’s Peregrino, Petrobras’…

Brazil to play key role in energy future

Oct 01, 2012

With massive investment and aggressive technology development required to match world energy demand in coming decades, South America’s ‘southern cone’ will have a big role to play. Russell McCulley reports from Rio de Janeiro.Thanks in large part to Brazil’s pre-salt discoveries…

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