Tag: Brazil

BP has announced completion of a successful flow test of the Itaipu-1A discovery well offshore Brazil. The drill stem test was the latest activity in the ongoing appraisal programme at the BP-operated Itaipu discovery.

The Brazilian government has stated that the country will need to increase its installed capacity by 110GW in the next 15 years to meet the country's rising energy demands.

Spurred on by the growth in sales of its diversified line of control valves, regulators and tank equipment in Brazil, Cashco, Inc.

According to Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, two oil and gas production platforms under construction at a southern Brazilian shipyard collided on Saturday after high winds dislodged their moorings. The P-58 and P-63 platforms broke free of their moorings at the Honorio Bicalho shipyard at the port of Rio Grande.

  Petrobras’ total oil and natural gas production in Brazil averaged 2,441 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) in December 2012, indicating a 3.4% increase from November of the same year.

 Siemens has announced that they have been awarded an order for the supply of the power island for the UTE Mauá 3 combined-cycle power plant to be located in Manaus, Brazil.

GE Oil & Gas has signed a record deal of nearly $1.1B (USD) with Brazilian energy company Petrobras. This is the world's largest subsea wellhead production contract.

GE Energy Management’s Power Conversion business has announced it will supply Swire Pacific Offshore Operations Limited with integrated power generation, propulsion, dynamic positioning and automation systems for eight new offshore platform supply vessels (PSVs). Four of the PSVs are being built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan and the remaining four by Estaleiro Ilha S.A.

Alfa Laval has won an order to supply fresh water generators and diesel oil purifiers to major offshore platforms in Brazil.

Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Petrobras for a world-scale grassroots gas-to-chemicals complex in Linhares, Espirito Santo State, southeast Brazil.