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BEHIND THE NEWS: Why Coelho Filho Decided To Continue as Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy

Redação May 24, 2017

The Minister of Mines and Energy, Fernando Coelho Filho, decided to remain in Michel Temer’s administration, even after the PSB, his political party, decided to withdraw from the coalition and demand the resignation of the…

BRAZIL’S POLITICAL CRISIS: International press roundup

Redação May 22, 2017

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Brazilians around the country staged demonstrations Sunday calling for their president to step down after the supreme court opened an investigation into allegations he endorsed the payment of hush money to a jailed…

INTERNATIONAL PRESS ROUNDUP: Brazilian political crisis

Redação May 19, 2017

The swirling, tumultuous events of this week involving Pres. Temer and prominent lawmakers in corruption charges that are threatening the downfall of his government have been widely and prominently covered in the mainstream international…

14th Bid Round To Be Stricter

Redação Oct 17, 2016

The selection of the offshore areas under study for the National Petroleum Agency’s (ANP) 14th Bid Round scheduled for 2017 is stricter than that offered in the previous round, avoiding areas in the new frontier – offshore…

ANP Analyzes Waiver for Libra FPSO

Redação Sep 9, 2016

Experts from the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) have already begun working on a request by the Libra consortium for a waiver of the local content requirements for the FPSO for the field being put out to tender. The vessel will be…

PetroRio To Drill Two New Wells In Polvo

Redação Aug 12, 2016

PetroRio expects to drill up to two new wells in the Polvo field in the Campos Basin. The information was disclosed by Renato Jerusalmi, the oil company’s finance department manager during a conference call with investors today…

Operation License Requested

Redação Jun 2, 2016

Petrobras has requested an Operating License (OL) for the FPSO Cidade de Caraguatatuba. The vessel will be responsible for production in the Lapa field in the Santos Basin pre-salt area, with start-up scheduled for the second half of…

Cidade de Ilhabela Hits Capacity Peak

Redação May 5, 2016

The FSPO Cidade de Ilhabela, installed in the northern part of the Sapinhoá field in the Santos Basin pre-salt, reached peak capacity production in April, helping the area to hit an average production of 270,000 boepd. The…

Petrobras Charters Prosafe Flotel

Redação Aug 14, 2015

TheFloatel Safe Euros being buit in China Prosafe signed a US$ 164 million contract with Petrobras for a three-year charter of the Safe Eurus flotel, classified by the oil company as Maintenance and Security Unit (UMS). The…

From Water To Wind

Redação Dec 8, 2014

The country with enormously powerful hydroelectric power plants such as Itaipu (14,000 MW) and Tucuruí (8,370 MW) is now facing a totally unforeseen enemy: lack of water. After months of drought, the levels in the reservoirs worry…

Hotlines

Redação Dec 8, 2014

Ibama Ok’s FPSO Ilhabela Brazil’s environmental regulator, Ibama, has issued an operations license to Petrobras for the FPSO Cidade de Ilhabela, which has been cleared to begin production immediately in the Sapinhoá…

Hotlines

Redação Dec 8, 2014

The Most Productive Wind Farms With capacity factors ranging from 67% to 81%, in September the ten most productive wind farms were all located in Ceará state. The highest factor was recorded for Tractebel’s Trairí…

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Sep 30, 2020 - Argus

Brazilian biodiesel producers are vowing to meet demand for a 12pc blend in November and December, after a temporary reduction to 10pc lapses at the end of October. Total diesel demand is expected to reach 9.4 B liters (969,249 b/d) in the final two months of the year, up 3.3% from the same period of 2019, according to data compiled by biodiesel association Aprobio. Aprobio projects that biodiesel demand will reach 1.13 B over the same period under a 12% blend, which biodiesel producers say they can meet. But Aprobio added that ceiling prices for a procurement auction for the last two months of the year should reflect current feedstock prices. The association previously grumbled that biodiesel prices in the routine auctions did not adequately reflect production costs.

Sep 30, 2020 - Renewables Now

CGN Brasil Energia e Participações SA, the local branch of China's CGN Energy International Holdings Co Ltd, will add another 82.8 MW of capacity to the 195-MW Lagoa do Barro wind power complex. According to a company statement published by the National Wind Energy Association (ABEEolica), CGN will invest R$ 444 million (US$ 78.7 M) in the expansion. Construction works are set to begin in December of this year with commercial operation scheduled for December 2021. Contracted in the 2019 A-6 energy auction, the new addition will allow the wind complex to reach a production capacity of 366,000 MWh per year.

Sep 30, 2020 - EV Wind

The “strong wind” season in northeast Brazil has caused wind power production to set unprecedented production records in 2020. In the first week of August alone, the National Electric System Operator (ONS) recorded three peaks in the average power generation in the wind farm region. The most recent was on August 6, when wind turbines reached 9,049 MW on average. This capacity is enough to supply the equivalent of 94.4% of the electricity demand in the nine northeastern states, for example.

Sep 30, 2020 - Borgen Magazine

The concept of solving rural poverty with renewable energy seems odd on the surface. The issues plaguing renewable energy such as costs, efficiency and returns on investment make it virtually unsuitable for poor, rural environments. It is after all, in places like this where the opportunity for such bold initiatives hardly exists. However, in Brazil, where an abundance of renewable resources like hydropower and sugarcane (ethanol) generate electricity every day, the country is optimistic about solving one issue with the other.A typical issue facing impoverished communities, like those in Brazil, is that households have little to no access to electricity. These villages are undeveloped and off the national grid; their countryside location would make centralized electricity costly and yet these families make far less money than do typical, urban households.