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OCTOBER 5, 2010

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Kemira Oyj are opening a new joint R&D center in São Paulo, Brazil. The R&D center will focus primarily on water chemistry and biomass utilization applications. The center in São Paulo aims to implement the newest water technology research in the growing South American market.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

A consortium of companies, including Royal Dutch Shell plc, Petrobras, Total, CNPC and CNOOC won a 35-year production sharing contract to develop the super-giant Libra pre-salt oil discovery located in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. million barrels per day. The production sharing contract is expected to be signed in November 2013.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Technip two ultra-deep water contracts for the supply of flexible pipes for the Sapinhoá Norte field and I5 at Lula field (former Tupi field), located in the Santos Basin pre-salt area (Brazil), at a water depth of up to 2,500 meters (8,202 feet). Petrobras has awarded. Ultra deepwater extends from 1,000 to 3,000 m and beyond.

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JULY 13, 2009

Shell began production at its multi-field Parque das Conchas (BC-10) project 110 kilometers (68 miles) off Brazil’s south-east coast, where heavy oil resources lie beneath waters nearly two kilometers deep in the Campos Basin. This marks a major milestone in delivering oil from Brazil’s deep water.”

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MAY 21, 2010

Statoil ASA has agreed to sell 40% of the Peregrino field offshore Brazil to China’s Sinochem Group. Sinochem Group will pay a total of US$3,070 million in cash for the 40% share of the Peregrino field, located 85 km offshore Brazil in the Campos basin at about 100 meters of water depth in BMC-7 and BMC-47. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 7, 2018

ExxonMobil Corporation announced positive results from its Ranger-1 exploration well, marking ExxonMobil’s sixth oil discovery offshore Guyana since 2015. billion recoverable oil-equivalent barrels. Wood Mackenzie currently expects around 350,000-400,000 b/d of oil production (just oil, not factoring in natural gas) by 2026 from there.

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MARCH 16, 2015

Sweet sorghum can extend the ethanol production season by up to 60 days in Brazil. Since it grows in as few as 90 to 120 days, it requires less water and other inputs than sugarcane. Raízen is Brazil’s fifth largest company in terms of revenue and the nation’s leading producer of sugarcane ethanol. Brazil Ethanol'

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Anelise Lara, the head of Petrobras’ refining, announced that the company is ready to begin production of renewable diesel from soy or other edible oils at commercial scale. Petrobras has a technology patented since 2006 for the co-processing of vegetable oils using the process called HBIO ( Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Petrobras announced a new oil discovery in the extreme southwestern part of the Walker Ridge concession area, located in the US Gulf of Mexico ultra-deep waters. The Logan discovery is approximately 400 km (250 miles) southwest of New Orleans, at a water of around 2,364 meters (7,750 feet). The Logan discovery. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Petrobras and ExxonMobil will evaluate areas of mutual interest that can bring together their world-class experience across all sectors of the oil and gas production value chain, including opportunities for cooperation in exploration, production, gas and chemicals both inside and outside Brazil.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

between 2008 and 2009 due to the global financial crisis, global oil consumption recovered by 3.1% About one third of this growth came from China, which now uses more than 10% of the world’s oil. The United States, Brazil, Russia, and the Middle East accounted for an additional 48% of the increase. After falling 1.5%

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JANUARY 31, 2018

New energy research from business information provider IHS Markit has identified more than five billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in numerous smaller, previously bypassed, or underperforming reservoirs outside North America that offer oil and gas operators a shorter-cycle path to production than new, frontier projects in undeveloped areas.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Statoil, operator Repsol Sinopec, and Petrobras have confirmed a high-impact discovery in the Pão de Açúcar prospect offshore Brazil. Statoil defines a high-impact well as offering a total of more than 250 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), or 100 million boe net to Statoil. Pão de Açúcar. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Shell and its partners have begun production from the second development phase of the Parque das Conchas (BC-10) project, located in ultra-deep waters off Brazil’s south-east coast. The peak production of the first phase was more than 90,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in 2010, and is currently producing some 35,000 boe per day.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Maersk Oil and other partners declared the Azul-1 deepwater exploration well, located in Block 23 in the Kwanza Basin, a discovery well. The Azul-1 well, the first to penetrate pre-salt objectives in Angolan deepwater, was drilled in water depths of 923 meters (3,028 feet) and reached a final depth of 5,334 meters (17,500 feet).

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Statoil has confirmed communication between the Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries in the North Sea. In combination these discoveries may represent an oil structure of between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. Norway has not seen a similar oil discovery since the mid-eighties.

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MAY 11, 2011

Petrobras has signed an agreement with Jogmec (Japan Oil, Gas, and Metals National Corporation) with the aim of commencing a technical feasibility study on flexible pipes for oil production in the pre-salt cluster. Its brief is to develop a flexible pipe design for offshore oil production in ultradeep waters in the pre-salt cluster.

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JANUARY 1, 2014

BP also confirmed the recently-announced Pitu oil discovery in the frontier deepwater of the Potiguar basin off Brazil’s equatorial margin, announced by Petrobras. billion barrels of oil equivalent, according to Cobalt. The discovery well encountered both a high liquids content gas interval and an oil interval.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The system connects the Lula field to the Mexilhão platform, located in shallow Santos Basin waters. Extending more than 216 kilometers (134 miles), 18 inches in diameter and operating at a pressure of 250 bar, it is the deepest and longest undersea pipeline ever laid in Brazil. Lula-Mexilhão pipeline. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 27, 2012

World oil production capacity to 2020 (crude oil and NGLs, excluding biofuels). Oil production capacity is surging in the United States and several other countries at such a fast pace that global oil output capacity could grow by nearly 20% from the current 93 million barrels per day to 110.6 Source: Maugeri 2012.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Brazil’s largest airline, TAM Airlines; Curcas Diesel Brasil, a company promoting Jatropha curcas as the key feedstock for the global biodiesel industry; and Brasil Ecodiesel , the country’ largest biodiesel producer, will collaborate to conduct feasibility studies to implement an integrated project for the. aviation kerosene.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The team looked at three scenarios that would increase the sugarcane footprint in Brazil between 37.5

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Responding to press articles saying that the collapse of the global oil price is threatening oil and gas production in the off-shore Brazil pre-salt layer, Petrobras countered that it is expanding its production capacity “in an economically viable manner.”

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Data: California DOGGR. Click to enlarge. Source: Chevron. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The well, drilled by the West Carina rig, is now fully fitted out and ready to produce oil and natural gas. The Libra field is one of the largest pre-salt oil discoveries to date in Brazil. km south of discovery well 2-ANP-2A-RJS, in a water depth of 1,951 meters (1.21

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MARCH 12, 2010

Devon Energy Corporation has entered into agreements to sell all of its assets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and Azerbaijan to BP for $7.0 Devon and BP will also form a heavy oil joint venture to develop BP’s Kirby oil sands leases in Alberta, Canada. billion in cash. BP group chief executive Tony Hayward.

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MARCH 17, 2015

Moored in waters 1,200 m (3,937 feet) deep, the P-61 completes the production system for the Papa Terra field, operating alongside the P-63 FPSO (floating production storage and offloading), commissioned on 11 November 2013. Tension leg platforms (TLPs) are buoyant production facilities vertically moored to the seafloor by tendons.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

Petrobras now operates more floating production platforms (including self-owned and chartered ones) than any other company in the world, according to Petrodata, a consulting firm that specializes in providing information about the global oil industry.

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APRIL 27, 2011

A GTL demonstration plant has successfully been commissioned at Petrobras’ Aracaju site in Brazil. The Brazil plant, contracted from CompactGTL in 2008, demonstrates a fully integrated small-scale GTL facility, at 200,000 scf/d capacity, incorporating: Gas pre-treatment. FT cooling water system. Pre-reforming.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Solazyme received the award for Greener Synthetic Pathways for its tailored oils produced from microalgal fermentation. Solazyme has engineered microalgae to produce oils tailored to customers’ needs that can mimic or enhance properties of traditional vegetable oils. coli bacteria and Saccharomyces (e.g.

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JULY 1, 2014

Over the next five years, Petrobras will invest around US$70 billion in constructing exploration wells and developing production in Brazil—32% of the company’s total investment planned in its Business and Management Plan, and 46% of its scheduled investment in exploration and production in Brazil.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

The seed contains around 40% oil. Initially, oil from the plants seeds will be converted into jet fuel. Boeing is working on sustainable fuel with partners in the United States, Europe, China, Middle East, Brazil, Japan, South Africa, Australia and other countries. SkyNRG is expanding production of the Solaris plant.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Chevron Brasil Upstream Frade Ltda is responding to oil seeps and a subsequent sheen that has occurred in the vicinity of the Chevron-operated Frade project located 370 kilometers (230 miles) offshore north east of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in water depths of approximately 1,200 meters (3,800 feet).

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Global Industries brings to Technip its complementary subsea know-how, assets and experience, comprising 2,300 employees operating 14 vessels, including two newly-built leading edge S-Lay vessels, as well as strong positions in the Gulf of Mexico (US and Mexican waters), Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Use of Hydrous Ethanol in Brazil. The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

London-based Whitefox Technologies, together with its Brazil-based partner Green, have secured a bioethanol contract with the Guyanan Government. Completely reliant on imported oil as a key source of energy, the Government of Guyana, through its Agriculture Sector Development Unit (ASDU), is turning to bioethanol as a source of fuel.

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