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BP, Petrobras Reconfirm Strategic Alliance

yolen@brasilenergia.com.br Apr 13, 2018

The two oil companies officialized the E&P cooperation agreement agreed to last year

GlobalData: Brazil 2018-2020 Upstream Capex = US$ 18.2 B/Year

yolen@brasilenergia.com.br Feb 9, 2018

Brasil Energy Newsroom An average capex of US$ 18.2 billion per year is forecast to be spent on 382 oil and gas fields in Brazil between 2018 and 2020, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The consultants…

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GlobalData Energy: Brazil’s Upstream Capex To Be US$ 54 B by 2020

yolen@brasilenergia.com.br Jan 11, 2018

Brasil Energy Newsroom Research and consulting firm GlobalData said in a report it expects that an average capex of US$ 18.2 billion per year will be spent on 382 oil and gas fields in Brazil between 2018 and 2020. Capital expenditure…

Domestic Content At A Low Ebb

Redação Nov 7, 2014

Petrobras said the commitment to local content with the Brazilian federal government will not be compromised A survey conducted by a Brazilian equipment supplier indicates that 13 FPSOs with operations scheduled to begin…

Retroactive Waivers Denied

Redação Nov 7, 2014

In all, there were 37 cases, submitted between 2012 and 2014, for which waiver requests were submitted The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) has signaled that it will not…

Less Production

Redação Nov 7, 2014

Gran Tierra did not produce at full capacity in the third quarter due to technical problems at the Rlam refinery. According to the company, the refinery's problems limited its ability to take delivery of oil…

Only Three Proposals For Rigs

Redação Nov 7, 2014

According to Petrobras, the procedures for executing the rig sales are now being carried out Only three rigs – P-1, P-IV and PV – drew industry attention at an international auction for the sale of…

Kangaroo Drilling Cleared

Redação Nov 6, 2014

The Olinda Star Rig (pictured) can drill in water depths of up to 1,100 m and drills wells to depth of up 7,500 m depth Yesterday (November 5), Brazil's environmental regulator, Ibama, authorized Karoon to…

Subsea Support

Redação Nov 5, 2014

The expectation is this and another tender for hiring an RSV will be launched into water at the beginning of next year Petrobras has begun soundings to charter a specialized vessel to conduct manifold installation…

New Oil Production Record

Redação Nov 5, 2014

Pre-salt production totaled 648,000 boepd, 0.2% more than in the month of August Oil production in the country in September posted the highest ever volume, of 2.358 million bopd. The result is 1.4% above August…

Marginal Areas In 13th Round

Redação Nov 5, 2014

The Eastern Margin of Brazil that extends from the states of Rio Grande do Norte to Rio Grande do Sul The National Agency of Petroleum (ANP) has approved the inclusion of areas with marginal accumulations in the…

Formation Test In Búzios

Redação Nov 5, 2014

The ODN II (pictured) will be reponsible for the drilling; it has a vertical depth of 6,250 m in waters 2,032 m deep The ANP approved the tearing out of a formation test for special well 9-BUZ-2 -RJS in the…

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Jul 19, 2018 - Reuters

Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras will start pumping oil from four new platforms between October and December, the company’s director for production and technology development Hugo Repsold said on Wednesday. Speaking at a business event, he said Petrobras could study building its own platforms after 2022 and predicted the company would head towards sustainable growth of oil production in the next few years.

Jul 19, 2018 - Agencia Brasil – EBC

The State University of Campinas (Unicamp) was selected Wednesday (Jul. 18) once again as the best university in Latin America, on a list put together by magazine Times Higher Education. Five other Brazilian institutions figured among the best ten. The top positions on the list headed by Brazil are shared by Chile, with two universities among the highest ten, in addition to Mexico and Colombia, with one each. A total of 129 universities in ten Latin American countries were considered, and the first two places were once again given to Unicamp and the University of São Paulo (USP). The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile retained the third position.

Jul 19, 2018 - Brazil Reports

Brazil’s central bank has recently released a preview of this year’s GDP, revealing that in May the country’s economy fell 3.34% in comparison with the previous month, reported news outlet G1. This economic dip can almost entirely be attributed to the truckers’ strikes that continued for 10 consecutive days in late May earlier on this year. The strikes that took place, which demanded a reduction in the cost of diesel, cost the Brazilian government an enormous amount of money and ground the country to a halt, cutting off supplies of fuel and general goods. The central bank’s report takes into account the months of the year and compares them in order to assess economic activity.

Jul 18, 2018 - Agencia Brasil – EBC

Information and evidence gathered as part of plea bargain statements and leniency deals forged in Brazil under Operation Carwash will be accepted by court authorities in Argentina. The talks on the use of material in Argentine courts were concluded last Friday (Jul. 13) between Brazil’s Office of the Prosecutor-General (PGR) and Argentina’s Prosecution Office. The cooperation agreement was conceived by the Secretariat for International Cooperation (SCI), linked to the Federal Prosecution Service (MPF). Over the course of the last six months, the secretariat was able to reach a consensus with Argentina, which was hesitant in granting immunity to those making plea bargain statements in exchange for information.