October 2012

Petrobras, Sete and Keppel select electrical solution for new drilling rigs

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GE to power pre-salt semisubmersible drilling vessels The Brazilian national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Sete Brazil Participaçoes SA (Sete) and its contractor Keppel Fels do Brazil SA (Keppel) have selected GE’s Power Conversion electrical solutions to power and propel the first series of six semisubmersible drilling rigs. Petrobras is the operator imposing the key requirements […]

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Sete Brasil in brief

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Sete is made for Brazil. Our history is just beginning. Sete Brasil Participações S.A. (Sete) was established in 2011 by Petrobras to meet the booming demand for drilling rigs in Brazil for the exploration and production of the pre-salt oil and gas fields. These pre-salt oil and gas fields are located:  – Far offshore, between 200 and

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Petrobras to open bids on P74-P75 and to tender P76-P77

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Petrobras moves on Tupi and Franco FPSOs Topsides  Petrobras is ready to open publicly the bids submitted for the topsides packages of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels called P-74 and P-75. In parallel, Petrobras is preparing the call for tender (CFT) for the tow following FPSOs, the so called, P-76 and P-77. All these

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ExxonMobil to acquire Celtic Exploration in western Canada

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ExxonMobil steps in liquids-rich Montney shale acreage October 2012, ExxonMobil announced to acquire the Canadian company Celtic Exploration (Celtic) for the amount of $3.15 billion. ExxonMobil has already a strong presence in Canada since the 1940s in beginning with offshore exploration and production  in Nova Scotia with the Sable project and in Newfoundland with Hibernia project.

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Transcanada in brief

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In Business to Deliver Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and listed at the Toronto Stock Exchange and NYSE, TransCanada is a leader in energy infrastructures in North America.  With more than 60 years of experience and 4,200 employees, TransCanada is active in two types of business, pipelines and energy. In midstream activities, TransCanada builds its

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ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada mull over giant Alaska LNG project

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Majors work on alternatives to export North Slope gas  In October 2012, the major companies operating in Alaska, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada submitted to the Alaska administration their first report for an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project. Estimated to cost $45 billion to $65 billion capital expenditure, Alaska LNG should be one of

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