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[ 09/23/2011 16:31 ] - strategy
SQC To Train Rig Operators
The well safety company SQC Well Control will begin, as of October, to offer training and recycling of rig operators for up to 100 professionals per month. The upgrade will be possible with the arrival of the DS 600, a simulator that is coming from Dubai, where KCA Deutag has one of its six world centers. The Scottish company will form a joint venture in 2012 with the Brazilian...
[ 09/23/2011 15:06 ] - power
Eletrobras Reforms Basic Network
Eletrobras intends to finish over the next three years a complete restoration of its electrical transmission system. The plan, which will require annual investments of R$ 2 billion (US$ 1.06 B), foresees that by 2014 all the installations comply with the criteria of “n-1”redundancy – when the system continues operating, even with the collapse of a transmission...
[ 09/22/2011 19:12 ] - hydro power
1 GW In Rio Branco
The National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) approved an inventory study of the Rio Branco Basin potential, identifying 1,049 MW in four potential generation locations. The areas will be available for the preparation of feasibility and basic project studies. The study is aimed at the possibility of building a 708.4 MW hydroelectric plant on the Branco River, at a location that has been...
[ 09/22/2011 18:47 ] - commercialization
MME Approves A-1 Model
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) approved a new model for the A-1 energy auction, designed to sell power generated by existing projects, scheduled for November 30. The official announcement was published in the Federal Gazette (Diário Oficial da União) on Thursday (September 22). The Ministry also has made available the power purchase contract and electric energy...
[ 09/22/2011 18:41 ] - E&P
Possible BG Pre-Salt Field Sale
BG may be on the verge of selling its stake in the Lula and Cernambi fields, the most important in the country located in the Santos pre-salt cluster. The operation would include also the BM-S-9, BM-S-11 and BM-S-10 blocks, where a number of prospects already have been discovered. The rumors have become more persistent over the past two years and would involve the sale to groups from...
[ 09/22/2011 18:36 ] - E&P
Guará Norte FPSO Christened
Petrobras christened the unit that will be used to export the Guará Norte prospect in exploratory block BM-S-9, in the pre-salt cluster of the Santos Basin, as Cidade de Ilha Bela. The platform will start operations in 2014, according to the general manager of the Santos Basin Operations Unit (SB-OU), José Luiz Marcusso. The FPSO will be leased by the Queiroz...
[ 09/22/2011 18:33 ] - E&P
Mexilhão: Full Production In 2012
The Mexilhão natural gas field in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin will reach its plateau production of 10 million m3/day of natural gas around the middle of next year, thus becoming the largest natural gas field in Brazil. The information was provided by the general manager of the Santos Basin Operations Unit (SB-OU), José Luiz Marcusso. Mexilhão today...
[ 09/22/2011 17:55 ] - regulatory
 ANP Denies Cernambi Appeal
The directors of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) denied on Wednesday, September 21, the administrative appeal proposed by Petrobras against the decision by the agency to reject the plans for development of the Lula and Cernambi fields, both in exploratory block BM-S-11 in the pre-salt cluster of the Santos basin. The agency continues to believe that Lula and Cernambi...
[ 09/22/2011 17:49 ] - R&D
Petrobras Has US$ 50 MM With IPT
Petrobras is now the largest client of the Technology Research Institute (IPT). The company accounts for 25% of the annual earnings of around R$ 100 million (US$ 53.2 million) and for half of the funding obtained by the institute for the sale of services to the private sector. The various projects ordered by Cenpes (Petrobras's research center), in the last five years, total...
[ 09/22/2011 17:25 ] - E&P
2-D Proposals For ParnaÃba
On September 30, the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) will be taking proposals for the auction for the acquisition and processing of 42,000 onshore seismic shooting points for seismic 2-D reflection, with 10,500 stations for acquisition of gravimetric and magnetometric associated data in the Parnaíba Basin. The project will have to be executed within 30 months from the date of the...
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