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Petrobras has confirmed the extent of the light oil and natural gas discovery in the Muriú area announced in a press release of December, 2012. The drilling results are for extension well 3-SES-175D (3-BRSA-1180-D-SES), known as Muriú 1, located in the BM-SEAL-10 concession area (blocks SEAL-M-347 and SEAL-M-424) in the ultra deep waters of the Sergipe Basin. The well is located 83 kilometers from the city of Aracaju, 4.4 kilometers from the discovery well and at a water depth of 2,432 meters, and confirms the existence of a 24-meter thick reservoir with good permo-porosity characteristics. The well reached a final depth of 5,627 meters.

Metso has completed the acquisition of a steel foundry in Quzhou City, Zheijang Province some 400km Southwest of Shanghai.

Foz, the Brazilian Water Company of Odebrecht Ambiental has commissioned consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV to help build 10 wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) over the next five years, at a cost of 11.5 million Euros.

Southern Research Institute and the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) are to develop technologies that will advance shale gas hydraulic fracturing water treatment in order to produce National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) quality water.

Technip, in consortium with its construction partner Performance Contractors Inc., has been awarded a contract by the National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA).

Foster Wheeler Upstream has won a project management contract by Cardon IV for new production facilities for the Perla Field in the Gulf of Venezuela.

Petrobras’ oil output (oil plus natural gas liquids - NGL) of all of Petrobras' fields in Brazil was 1,979 thousand barrels per day (bpd), volume 4.6 per cent higher than May.

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has awarded a joint venture equally formed by Technip and DOF with eight contracts.

The number of refuelling outages this fall at nuclear power plants in the United States is expected to be the lowest it’s been in years.

Enbridge is proceeding with the construction of the Woodland Pipeline Extension Project. The project will extend the Woodland Pipeline from Enbridge's Cheecham Terminal to its Edmonton Terminal to connect with refineries and export pipelines in the Edmonton area.