Brazil upstream news

Wärtsilä will operate the power modules onboard a FPSO vessel, on behalf of the owner 3R Petroleum and has also signed a five-year optimised maintenance agreement with the company to ensure the reliability and performance of the installation.

The systems will be deployed across two of OceanPact’s vessels to support inspection, repair and maintenance services for Petrobras' oilfields.

The project, supported by industry funding, is expected to complete by the end of 2023, with fast-track products available by June.

TotalEnergies, and its co-venturers QatarEnergy and Petronas Petróleo Brasil have won the Agua Marinha block in the Open Acreage under Production Sharing Regime.

On 10 October at 20:00 local time, the new platform in Brazil, Peregrino C, produced its very first oil.

A new feature used in the creation of GeoWells Brazil is an innovative core image interpretation workflow. This harnesses machine learning technology to predict core and thin section descriptions over hundreds of wells, and tens of thousands of images.

The Valaris DS-17 drillship has been tasked to drill an appraisal well, plug an old exploration well and conduct additional drilling scope in Brazil.

Under the terms of the contract, CGG will continue to provide its proven reservoir characterisation workflows, such as geostatistical, 4D and azimuthal inversion, while also bringing new state-of-the-art technologies to Brazil to further enhance reservoir understanding.

Production has started from the first two wells at the Roncador increased oil recovery (IOR) project, bringing daily production to approximately 150 000 barrels.

The end user, a major operator, will deploy Oceanic Environmental Control Fluid in a field in the North Sea.