BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 4.May.2026, Words: 406) — The P-79 platform, located in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, began production, ahead of the date […]
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FPSO Almirante Tamandaré Comes Online in the Pre-Salt Santos Basin
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 15.Feb.2025) — The floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Almirante Tamandaré (Búzios 7) — with production potential up to 225,000 barrels […]
McDermott Awarded FEED Contract in Mozambique
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2024) — McDermott, through a consortium with Saipem and China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation, has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for […]
Petrobras on Start-up of Almirante Barroso FPSO
(Petrobras, 31.May.2023) — Petrobras started the production of the FPSO Almirante Barroso platform, in the Búzios field, with capacity to produce daily up to 150 thousand barrels of oil and 6 million […]
Petrobras Inks Deal with Keppel for P-80 Platform
(Petrobras, 15.Aug.2022) — Petrobras informs that, as a result of the progress of the development project for the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt area, it signed a contract […]
Petrobras On Mero Production Individualization Agreement
(Petrobras, 13.Dec.2021) — Petrobras announces that the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) approved, at the Collegiate Board Meeting No. 1074 held on 9 December 2021, the […]
CNODC Yet To Express Interest In Búzios Field
(Petrobras, 4.Oct.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 29 September 2021, informs that the partner CNODC Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda. has not expressed interest in exercising […]
Petrobras Confirms Oil At Buzios Well
(Petrobras, 22.Dec.2020) — Petrobras confirmed oil of excellent quality with the drilling of well 9-BUZ-48D-RJS, located in the extreme northwest of Búzios field in the Santos Basin. The well is […]
PPSA Sale Plan Stokes Oil Contract Debate
(Argus, 12.Aug.2020) — The Brazilian government’s plan to sell state-owned pre-salt marketing company PPSA has stalled amid congressional foot-dragging over a change in pre-salt contract terms. Addressing reporters late yesterday, […]
Petrobras On Oil Finds In Búzios And Albacora
(Petrobras, 11.May.2020) — Petrobras confirmed oil of excellent quality in the Southeast area of the Búzios field and greater potential in the pre-salt of the Albacora field. POÇO 9-BUZ-39DA-RJS Located […]
Why ExxonMobil’s Guyana Success May Have Hurt Petrobras
(The Motley Fool, John Bromels, 20.Nov.2019) — Oil is a big business with even bigger money attached. That’s why governments that control oil assets are eager to auction them off […]
Brazil’s Pre-salt Encore Flops
(Argus, 7.Nov.2019) — Brazil’s pre-salt auction today mirrored the lackluster results from yesterday’s much-hyped Transfer of Rights offer, raising questions about bonus pricing, the appeal of the country’s production-sharing terms […]
Brazil Approves 14 Firms For November Oil Tender
(Reuters, 30.Sep.2019) — Fourteen companies have been officially approved by Brazilian authorities to participate in an oil bidding round in November, in which total signing bonuses are expected to be the […]