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[ 09/30/2011 17:44 ] - logistics
SBM To Use Base In Niterói
SBM Offshore has closed an agreement with Naval Venture, a company of the Synergy Group, to share the old CEC Equipamentos base in Niterói (Rio de Janeiro), alongside the Mauá Shipyard, also of the same group. The area will be used by the company to manufacture and pre-commission modules for oil platforms. The new SBM base in Brazil should begin with the construction of...
[ 09/30/2011 17:26 ] - ethanol
US$ 920 MM Credit For Logum
The BNDES develpment bank has approved a bridge loan of R$ 1.7 B (US$ 924 MM) for Logum Logística, the company responsible for the construction of the ethanol transport system for export. The resources will finance the first stage of the project, which covers the stretches from Ribeirão Preto-Paulínia, Uberaba-Ribeirão Preto and Anhembi-Paulínia, as...
[ 09/30/2011 17:07 ] - logistics
LLX Terminal Could Be Leased Â
LLX, the logistics company of the EBX Group, has just finished the landfill of the area where the construction of the Oil Treatment Unit at the Açu Port in Rio de Janeiro will be built. The company is now analyzing the management model for the area, which could be leased out to an oil company. The goal is that the unit will handle oil produced in the Campos, Santos and...
[ 09/30/2011 17:00 ] - services
O&G Offices In EspÃrito Santo
With an eye on the potential of the Brazilian oil and gas market, Regus intends to open within the next six months a new business center in Vitória, in Espírito Santo. The company believes that businesses in the O&G area are going for flexible offices more and more –as in the case of the rooms in the new undertaking – since moving in and setting up is fully...
[ 09/29/2011 19:38 ] - E&P
 Petrobras Charters FPSO Cernambi
Petrobras has signed a letter of intention with the Schahin/ Modec consortium to charter the FPSO for Cernambi that will be installed in the Santos cluster at the daily rate of US$ 575,000. The document was sent to the group on Friday (September 23) after the partners BG and Petrogal agreed to the business. The unit will be converted from the VLCC Sunrise J vessel and...
[ 09/29/2011 17:28 ] - E&P
SBM Yields To The Chinese
SBM has finally surrendered to the force of the Chinese shipyards. After years of working with groups in Korea and Singapore, the company in consortium with Queiroz Galvão is going to convert the Guará Norte FPSO at the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), in Guangzhou. The decision has already been passed on to Petrobras. The construction, assembly and...
[ 09/29/2011 17:25 ] - strategy
Areva Goes For Larger Plants
Areva Koblitz is changing its strategy to adapt to the transitory lack of competitiveness for small hydroelectric centers (SHC) and biomass plants, segments in which it specialized. An indication of this new phase is its participation in the Santo Antonio do Jari hydroelectric (373.4 MW), on the Jari River, in the Amazon. This will be its first project with a capacity greater than 100...
[ 09/29/2011 17:07 ] - regulatory
ANP To Monitor Small Fields
The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) wants to improve the inspection system for the production of small onshore fields in Brazil. The idea is to register all the storage tanks at the end of the year and follow the daily production as of 2012. Today, 95% of production of oil in Brazil is already measured online, while the other 5% extracted from small onshore fields is followed monthly...
[ 09/29/2011 16:35 ] - R&D
V&M To Do Research In Rio
V&M will sign on October 7 a contract with UFRJ for the construction of its first research center in Brazil. The Vallourec Research Rio de Janeiro (VRRJ) will be in the technological park of Ilha do Fundão and will have an annual budget of R$ 3million (US$ 1.7MM). The main focus of research will be related to the pre-salt as well as setting up projects for the development of...
[ 09/29/2011 15:53 ] - power
Antitheft Systems For Export
The fight against the theft of energy has been one of the main incentives for the expansion of the smart grid in Brazil and could be an important entry card for companies specialized on the international market. According to Leonardo Fares, director of Concert, specialized in control and automation systems in the energy industry, Brazilian companies could use their experience to gain a foot in...
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