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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…

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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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Feb 19, 2019 - Renewables Now

The Brazilian Minister of Mines and Energy, Bento Albuquerque, announced the construction licenses for 1,572 MW of green projects secured during the August 31, 2018 energy auction have been signed.In all, the government has so far approved the construction of 53 projects, which represent BRL 6.8 billion (USD 1.8bn/EUR 1.6bn) of investments and more than 8,000 direct jobs. Of the okayed projects, 44 correspond to wind power generation, seven are hydropower generation schemes, one uses natural gas and one uses biomass, the ministry said.

Feb 19, 2019 - Rigzone

After years of budget cuts, oil and gas companies are finally stepping up their exploration game. That’s according to Rystad Energy, which said improved market conditions and lower well costs have led exploration and production players to “ramp up” their 2019 exploration activities in all parts of the world.“Renewed optimism in exploration activities is anticipated in 2019, with operators from various segments aiming for multiple high-impact campaigns – both onshore and offshore – in essentially all corners of the world,” Rystad Energy Senior Analyst, Rohit Patel, said in a company statement….Peroba, a pre-salt prospect in Brazil’s Santos basin, is estimated to hold in-place volumes of more than five billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe).

Feb 19, 2019 - Bloomberg

Quick to Reject Maduro, Brazil Now Treads Softly on Venezuela. Brazil benefits from cheap electricity from Venezuela. The country’s northernmost state, Roraima, is supplied by cheap hydroelectricity from Venezuela’s Guri dam. While Brazil has the thermoelectric capacity to supply Roraima, it comes at much higher cost -- an additional 684 million reais ($183 million) per year, according to the country’s electric energy agency.

Feb 18, 2019 - Agencia Brasil – EBC

Brazil, the US, and Mexico stand out as the world’s leaders in production of wind energy in the Americas, as per figures recently released by the Global Wind Energy Council, GWEC. Altogether, North, Central, and South Americas account for a fourth of the world’s total installed capacity of this type of energy in 2018. The total installed capacity of wind energy in the Americas now totals 135 GW—up 12 percent from 2017, according to GWEC. The demand for this type of energy in the region is expected to continue, and the organization predicts another 60 GW in new wind capacities from 2019 to 2023.