Petrobras and Total have signed deals worth US$2.2 billion that will see Total take stakes in a number of Brazilian offshore fields and an onshore plant. Petrobras has agreed to give Total 22.5% in the Iara concession area, containing the Sururu…
The P-66 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is on its way to work on the Lula Sul field, in Brazil's Santos Basin, after being delivered by Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary Keppel FELS Brasil SA's BrasFELS shipyard…
Brazilian giant Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) started production at the Lapa field, in the Santos basin pre-salt layer offshore Brazil. Image of the Cidade de Caraguatatuba, from Sofec. Petrobras…
Farstad Shipping has been awarded multiple charter contracts in Brazil and Egypt. Petrobras has extended the contract for the multi-purpose supply vessel Far Swift with another year in direct continuation with present contract, until October 2017…
Shell, through its subsidiary Shell Brasil Petroleo, extended its contract with MODEC for operations and maintenance of the FPSO Fluminense, effective from August 2016 to December 2020. The FPSO has been operating in the Bijupirá and…
InterMoor appointed Cleiver Moulin as managing director in Brazil. Moulin will be responsible for overseeing InterMoor do Brasil’s business in the region. Moulin joined InterMoor do Brazil in 2010 as a senior project manager and has since played management roles in projects…
Petrobras has agreed an early terminatation on its contract for Sevan Drilling's cylindrical drilling rig, the Sevan Driller. The two firms also agreed to reduce rates on a second Sevan drilling rig, the Sevan Brasil, also on contract to Petrobras…
PetroRio has received its second cancelation notice, this time from Petrobras, for the Bijupirá and Salema fields offshore Brazil, just two weeks after it received a pink slip from supermajor Shell, leaving the Brazilian minnow completely out of the fields…
Shell is cancelling the divestment of an 80% stake in the Bijupirá and Salema fields, including the Fluminense floating production and storage offloading unit (FPSO). The Fluminense FPSO. Image from Modec…
Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has started production from the Cidade de Maricá floating production storage offloading unit (FPSO), in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, in addition to the expansion of the country’s longest subsea natural gas pipeline…
QGEP Participações has announced that Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção has signed a Crude Oil Sales Agreement (COSA) with Shell Western Supply and Trading for the early production system (EPS) of the Atlanta Field. This contract refers to QGEP's 30% share in the production from the field…
FMC Technologies has been chosen as the first winner of the OTC Brasil 2015 Spotlight on New Technology Award. The award recognizes FMC Technologies’ shape memory alloy fittings in subsea equipment, which was developed to replace orbital welding processes used to connect hydraulic tubing…
Rosneft, via its subsidiary RN-Brasil, has registered as a participant in Brazil's 13th license round. The registration is subject to the approval of Brazil's Agencia Nacional do Petroleo ANP and will allow Rosneft to take part in the…
Axa Engenharia Submarina Ltda. (AXA), a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group, has been awarded a contract for the provision of geo-hazard surveys on the Libra Field from Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) led consortia, consisting of Shell Brasil Petróleo…
Petrobras said tests confirmed the size of the oil discovery at Libra's first appraisal well, 3-BRSA-1255-RJS (3-RJS-731), informally known as NW-1. Tests at the well, located 185km off Rio de Janeiro, proved an 290m oil column and carbonate reservors of high porosity and permeability…
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