JGC Corporation has announced that along with IHI Corporation and Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU), it has finalized plans to invest in Estaleiro Atlantico Sul S.A. (EAS), one of Brazil’s largest shipbuilding companies, headquartered in the state of Pernambuco. JGC, IHI, and JMU will set up a special-purpose company, which is scheduled to sign a [...]
Rolls-Royce Plc announced today that it has signed a contract with Detroit Chile SA for the delivery of offshore cranes to four platform supply vessels (PSVs) under construction at Detroit Brasil Ltda. shipyard, in Itajaì, Brazil. The delivery from Rolls-Royce will include four ship sets of the award winning dual draglink crane – eight cranes [...]
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Halliburton announced the opening of its new Technology Center at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Technology Park, located at Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The center provides the setting for collaboration as the Company works with the country’s leading universities and customer research groups to establish a global center of [...]
BG Group today announced the start of commercial production from a third floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel on the Group’s discoveries offshore Brazil in the pre-salt Santos Basin. The Cidade de Paraty FPSO is the second unit deployed on the giant Lula discovery and is located approximately 300 kilometres off the coast of [...]
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HRT Participações em Petróleo S.A. has announced that, on June 1st, 2013, the spud-in of the Murombe-1 (2212/06-1) (“Murombe-1″), the second offshore well in its back-to-back exploratory drilling campaign. This well is targeting the Murombe Prospect, located in Petroleum Exploration License 23 (“PEL-23″), in the Walvis Basin, offshore the Republic of Namibia. The Murombe-1 well [...]
Petrobras’ CEO, Maria das Graças Silva Foster, welcomed the US vice-president, Joe Biden, along with the US ambassador to Brazil, Thomas Shannon, and the US consul general in Rio de Janeiro, John Creamer yesterday, May 29th, at the Petrobras Research Center (Cenpes). The group held a 30-minute closed meeting, which was also attended by Cenpes [...]
Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. today announced that it has agreed to acquire a 50 percent interest in the Cidade de Itajai (Itajai) floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit from Teekay Corporation (Teekay) for a purchase price of approximately $204 million. The acquisition will be financed with assumed debt and proceeds from the recently completed [...]
Sevan Drilling, a drilling contractor based in Norway, today announced that its Sevan Driller rig has completed drilling on its present location in Brazil. Upon unlatching the blow-out preventer (“BOP”) a small flow of mud from the well was observed by the remote operating vehicle. The small flow caused by a leak in the casing packoff did [...]
On the first day of the visit to Venezuela, the head of the Russian delegation Rosneft President Igor Sechin held talks with Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramírez. Besides, Igor Sechin met Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Elias Jaua. The parties discussed a wide range of issues regarding development of trade and economic cooperation between the [...]
Aker Solutions yesterday laid the foundation stone of a new plant in Paraná that will double the company’s subsea production capacity in Brazil. The plant in the city of São José dos Pinhais in the Paraná state in Brazil will be operational in 2015. It will replace Aker Solutions’ current subsea manufacturing facility in Curitiba [...]
