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santos basin

P-66 Maintains Production Leadership

João Montenegro Dec 14, 2018

The ramp-up of the Petrobras FPSO is the sharpest of the country's main platforms in the last year

TCU Requires More Information About Transfer of Rights Areas

Roberto Francellino Dec 13, 2018

The Court's technical analysis considered the information previously forwarded by the ministry to be "precarious and incomplete"

Oil & Gas

QGEP Sets Date For Drilling Next Atlanta Well

Claudia Siqueira Dec 13, 2018

The third will be the decider of the final project for the first offshore deep-water field operated by the Brazilian oil company

Oil & Gas

Equinor Reports Its 1st Discovery in Norte de Carcará

João Montenegro Dec 10, 2018

Oil traces were found by the Norwegian operator in water depth of 2,052 m through the West Saturn drill rig

Oil & Gas

The Petrobras Production Portfolio in Campos

João Montenegro Dec 10, 2018

The state company operates about 50 fields in the basin, which will receive US$ 20 billion over the next five years

Oil & Gas

Petrobras Extends Deadline for BM-S-11 Rig

Claudia Siqueira Dec 7, 2018

Oil company pushes the bidding to end of December, market see this as a postponement of the start-up

Natural Gas

BEHIND THE NEWS: Gas Production in Brazil in October at Record Levels

matheusgagliano Dec 5, 2018

Hits 117 million m³/d, up 3.1% over previous month

Oil & Gas

Deadline For Subsea Sepia Auction Extended

João Montenegro Dec 5, 2018

“It's a normal Petrobras process. There are hundreds of questions that need to be answered by the company's tender committee”

Oil & Gas

Ensco Completes Demobilization of Rig That Has Left the Country

João Montenegro Nov 30, 2018

The export of equipment was carried out at the Itaguaí terminal

Oil & Gas

First Well In Uirapuru On The Way

Claudia Siqueira Nov 30, 2018

The consortium responsible for the 4th Round production sharing area plans to accelerate the start-up

Oil & Gas

Spectrum Receives ANP Approval for Extension of Seismic Campaign

analuisaegues Nov 27, 2018

The survey will take another five months to complete

Oil & Gas

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: Petrobras’ Fiber Optic Mesh Tender Under Review

João Montenegro Nov 27, 2018

Few companies have shown an interest in building and operating Petrobras underwater network due to high contractual risk

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From the Media

Dec 14, 2018 - Reuters

Brazil’s epic “Car Wash” corruption investigation has taken down presidents and elite businessmen, and led to the largest corporate leniency deal ever signed. But graft allegations lodged by prosecutors last week against four of the world’s largest oil trading companies - Vitol SA, Trafigura, Glencore PLC and Mercuria Energy Group - have opened an explosive new phase in the long-running probe. Federal prosecutors allege the European multinationals and some smaller players collectively paid at least US$ 31 million in bribes over a six-year period to employees at Brazil’s state-led oil company Petrobras to sell them oil at sweetheart prices. They said the firms’ top brass had “total and unequivocal” knowledge that they were fleecing Petrobras and that the illicit activity may still be ongoing.

Dec 14, 2018 - Renewables Now

Brazil's power sector regulator Aneel approved on Tuesday the final two green projects with a combined capacity of 49 MW from the A-6 energy auction held on August 31, 2018. The approved schemes include the 29-MW Bela Vista small hydropower plant (SHP) and the 20-MW Rio Vermelho 3 biomass facility. Bela Vista is owned by a consortium formed by Copel Geracao e Transmissao SA, a subsidiary of Brazilian power utility Copel (BVMF:CPLE6), and local energy firm Foz do Chopim Energetica Ltda. The biomass project was secured by Glencane Bioenergia SA.

Dec 14, 2018 - Energyworld

France's EDF faces delay in Brazil hydroelectric dam over clearing trees. A consortium led by Electricite de France SA is ready to fill the reservoir of a hydroelectric dam built in Brazil's soy belt, but could be delayed by a year over removal of trees from the area to be flooded, the company and state officials said. Prosecutors are asking Mato Grosso's state environmental agency to deny the 402 megawatt HPP Sinop dam an operating license until all the vegetation is cleared, which could add US$ 103 million) to its R$ 2.9 billion price tag. If the trees are not removed, environmentalists say, the wood will rot in the water and create methane gas emissions that will contribute to global warming and pollute downstream waters.

Dec 14, 2018 - Dialogo Chino

Mired in a profound and lengthy economic crisis, the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which holds 90% of Brazil’s coal reserves, has opted to expand mining and create a coal gasification center. The initiative would enable the government, billions of dollars in debt, to create thousands of jobs but also risks locking-in into high-carbon energy infrastructure. As the state set out to find foreign investors for the project, it found China. “We know that China as a whole has been investing in the area of energy,” says Susana Kakuta, Rio Grande do Sul state secretary of mines and energy. “China uses technologies that are already well-established worldwide, so it is a big win-win, for them and for Brazil, especially for Rio Grande do Sul, in a new opportunity for coal from our state.”