Brazil
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February 21, 2019
TGS announces a new multi-client 3D seismic survey in the Campos Basin in Brazil. The survey will cover approximately 11,200 km2 within the granted permit area and will be acquired by Shearwater with the Amazon Warrior.
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February 20, 2019
Brazilian supply boom poised to challenge OPEC’s efforts to balance the global market.
Article
February 2019
The Huizhou 32-5 oil field comprehensive adjustment/Huizhou 33-1 oil field joint development project reportedly started production.
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February 06, 2019
Airborne Oil & Gas announces that Renato Bastos has joined Airborne Oil & Gas, as V.P. Brazil, strengthening its presence in Brazil.
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February 01, 2019
Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. and consortium partners have announced the start of production at the Lula North deepwater project in the Brazilian Santos Basin.
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January 16, 2019
Petrobras reports that in 2018, its total production of oil and gas, including natural gas liquids (NGL), was 2.63 MMboed, of which 2.53 MMboed produced in Brazil and 101,000 boed abroad. Petrobras’ own production of oil in Brazil was 2.03 MMbpd.
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January 04, 2019
The new head of Brazil’s state-controlled oil company criticized its history of government interference and vowed to pursue policies that will boost profit, echoing a wider pledge by President Jair Bolsonaro to reduce the state’s role in Latin America’s largest economy.
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December 30, 2018
Petrobras' total production of oil and gas in November, including natural gas liquids (NGL), was 2.62 MMboed, of which 2.52 MMboed were produced in Brazil and 100 Mboed outside.
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December 21, 2018
Agreement signed involves the sale of Petrobras' stake in the Lapa field and joint venture formation for onshore solar and wind projects in Brazil.
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December 19, 2018
Moreira Franco has had a long, varied and distinguished career spanning decades in Brazilian politics and academia, starting out as a sociology professor at the Federal Fluminense University before making the move into politics as the Mayor of Niterói in 1977.
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November 23, 2018
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is pursuing the sale of Brazil’s deep-sea treasure-trove of oil, but just weeks after his election he’s facing the same political obstacles as his two predecessors.
Article
November 2018
Ashtead Technology has completed a subsea installation monitoring project for Subsea7 in support of Equinor’s Utgard development, in Blocks 15/8 (NCS) and 16/18a (UKCS) of the central North Sea.
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October 29, 2018
Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is staring at an oil windfall.
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October 24, 2018
New, deepwater production is underway today at Lula Extreme South in the Brazilian Santos basin. Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. (Shell) and consortium partners, announces that the FPSO P-69 is now producing.
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October 18, 2018
Exxon Mobil has gone from being a tiny bit player in Brazil to the second-largest holder of oil exploration acreage, trailing only state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro.
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October 05, 2018
Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Petrobras to provide a subsea production system and related services for the Mero 1 project within the Mero field development, one of the largest oil discoveries in Brazil's pre-salt area.
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September 28, 2018
ExxonMobil has increased its holdings in Brazil’s pre-salt basins after it won the Titã exploration block with co-venturer Qatar Petroleum during Brazil’s 5th pre-salt bid round.
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September 28, 2018
The crude oil production from the newly acquired 25% interest in the Roncador oil field in Brazil will be lifted and transported by shuttle tankers. Equinor has now entered into time charter contracts for two newbuilt shuttle tanker with the shipowner Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers AS (Knutsen).
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September 25, 2018
Jumbo’s offshore division was awarded the contract by Sapura to perform the transportation and installation of the FSRU’s mooring system as well as project management and engineering services.
Article
September 2018
Evy Glørstad-Clark has been appointed senior V.P., exploration, for Aker BP.
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September 18, 2018
Petrobras has awarded Aker Solutions a contract to provide maintenance and modifications services for nine platforms at oil and gas fields in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.
