Brazil
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May 05, 2017
Two affiliates of Cut Off, LA-based Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), have signed a five-year contract with Shell Brazil for light subsea construction and inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services from the M/V Island Enforcer, a 402-ft. subsea installation and construction vessel.
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April 06, 2017
Wood Group was awarded a multi-year contract from Karoon Petróleo & Gás to provide owner’s engineering services to support the full field development for the Echidna field offshore Brazil marking the first project between the two companies.
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March 15, 2017
Weatherford International announced today that its facility in Macaé, Brazil, received API Specification Q2 certification. To gain certification, a facility must demonstrate a robust quality management system that assures personnel competency, risk assessment, contingency planning and other key elements.
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February 23, 2017
European oil majors given a taste of Brazil may soon be ready for more.
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February 16, 2017
Rosneft Brasil (100% owned Rosneft subsidiary) started the drilling of the first exploration well in the Solimoes basin.
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February 10, 2017
Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s $5.2-billion sale of a natural gas distribution unit to Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and other investors has just hit a legal snag.
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January 16, 2017
Petrobras has awarded the Brazilian built PLSV Skandi Vitoria a contract of 532 days. The contract will commence in January.
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January 11, 2017
Halliburton has announced a technology cooperation agreement with Petrobras that will advance collaboration in a diverse set of projects targeting complex reservoirs, such as deepwater pre-salt and mature fields.
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December 20, 2016
Benthic has been awarded a contract by the Libra Consortium for an offshore geotechnical investigation in the Libra field area, which lies about 140 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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December 05, 2016
For the three titans of Latin American oil—Pemex, PDVSA and Petrobras—last week’s OPEC-driven price rally won’t be enough to halt a slow descent from the ranks of international crude heavyweights.
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December 02, 2016
The pending combination of FMC Technologies and Technip has received a clearance decision from the General Superintendent of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), the Brazilian antitrust authority.
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November 23, 2016
Statoil has completed its acquisition of Petrobras’ 66% operated interest of the BM-S-8 offshore license in Brazil’s Santos basin.
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November 02, 2016
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has added inspection and testing capabilities to its marine base at the Açu Superport in São João da Barra, northern Rio de Janeiro.
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October 28, 2016
Brazil, the fastest-growing oil producer outside OPEC, will join talks with the exporters group in Vienna on Saturday about potential cooperation.
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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.
