Brazil
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October 24, 2016
Petrobras and Total inform that Pedro Parente, CEO of Petrobras, and Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of Total, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which sets the general framework for a Strategic Alliance covering upstream and downstream activities in Brazil, as well as international potential opportunities.
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October 21, 2016
Aker Solutions agreed to buy 70% of Brazilian C.S.E. Mecânica e Instrumentação Ltda, building on a strategy to expand its services business in key international markets.
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October 20, 2016
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has been awarded contracts to provide marine warranty services to three different FPSO projects in Brazil.
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October 05, 2016
Vallourec has finalized the merger of Vallourec Tubos do Brasil (VBR) and Vallourec & Sumitomo Tubos do Brasil (VSB).
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October 05, 2016
CGG announced the start of a large broadband 3D multi-client survey in the pre-salt area of the deepwater Santos Basin. Santos VII (Saturno) is the third phase in CGG’s most ambitious pre-salt project to date, collectively known as the Santos Basin Trilogy. The project is designed to make ultramodern seismic datasets available as quickly as possible to support each phase in the pre-salt evaluation process in anticipation of Brazil’s next pre-salt licensing round.
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September 28, 2016
Pacific Exploration & Production has reached an agreement to sell its 35% working interest in five concession agreements—S-M-1101, S-M-1102, S-M-1037, S-M-1165 and S-M 1166—in Brazil’s Santos basin to Karoon Gas Australia.
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September 19, 2016
Brazil’s main oil workers union is meeting Monday and doesn’t rule out a strike as it battles with state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro for more compensation, union leader Jose Maria Rangel said in an interview.
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September 02, 2016
Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras plans to save billions of dollars after completing a voluntary dismissal program to help reduce debt and adjust to lower oil prices.
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August 30, 2016
Statoil and Petrobras took a step forward in strengthening their cooperation in Brazil by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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August 25, 2016
Hansa Heavy Lift has transported five pipe racks and three modules, weighing a total of 1,871.51 metric tonnes and measuring 24,075 m³, for a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit off the coast of Brazil.
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August 16, 2016
Technip and DOF Subsea’s 50/50 owned joint venture, TechDof Brasil AS, has taken final delivery of the pipe-lay support vessel (PLSV) Skandi Açu, the companies said Tuesday.
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August 03, 2016
InterMoor do Brasil, an Acteon company, successfully completed their involvement in the decommissioning operations of the OSX-1 Floating Production System and Offloading (FPSO).
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July 29, 2016
Statoil is to acquire Petrobras’ 66% operated interest in the BM-S-8 offshore license in Brazil’s Santos basin.
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July 12, 2016
Petrobras has announced the start-up of the Lula Central production system, with the interconnection of the first production well (8-LL-81D-RJS) to FPSO Cidade de Saquarema, on July 8, and the production stabilization at around 30 Mbpd on July 11.
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July 06, 2016
Petrobras is selling nine shallow-water concessions in the states of Ceará and Sergipe.
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June 28, 2016
Wood Group has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to provide detailed engineering and design, and procurement services to South Atlantic Holding (owned by Statoil and partner Sinochem) for the development of Peregrino field wellhead platform C, offshore Brazil.
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June 16, 2016
The Libra Consortium has finished drilling and appraising the seventh well in the block. According to Petrobras, the well uncovered the largest net pay ever discovered—410 m—in the Libra Block.
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June 07, 2016
Pre-salt production now accounts for 40% of the oil produced from facilities operated by Petrobras in Brazil.
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June 07, 2016
Helix Energy Solutions Group has completed its contract renegotiations with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. and has entered into amendments to its well intervention services contracts for its two chartered vessels, the Siem Helix 1 and the Siem Helix 2, offshore Brazil.
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May 31, 2016
Petrobras has annouced the resignation of Aldemir Bendine from Petrobras’ board member and CEO positions.
