Petrobras

Toyo Engineering and SOG Oleo e Gas signed a MOU On May, 2012, Toyo Engineering Corporation (Toyo) and SOG – Óleo e Gás S.A. (SOG), a leading engineering company in Brazil, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create the new Brazilian joint venture company TS Participações e Investimentos S.A.. The signature ceremony was officially […]

Odebrecht, Petrobras & Braskem to lead Camisea gas field development Brazil has come forward with cash injections aimed at bringing the gas into the international markets and help Peru’s Petrochemical sector development. Odebrecht will lead a consortium of three Brazilian firms plans to spend up to $5 billion capital expenditure instead of the previous $3 billion  in the perspective of higher potential for Peru’s […]

Converting crude Supertankers or Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) into FPSOs is part of Petrobras program to speed up offshore oil fields development. The consortium made of Odebrecht, OAS and UTC, called the Enseada do Paraguacu consortium, has been awarded this contract on Lump-Sum-Turn-Key basis for an amount below $1.75 billion. Petrobras acquired last year these […]

Definition:  The “NOC” acronym means “National Oil Companies” and refers to the local oil producing companies owned by their respective government. Therefore there are nearly as many “NOCs” as countries in the world, but the most famous ones are: Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, Statoil, Petrochina, Sinopec, Petrobras, ADNOC, Qatar Petroleum, etc…. Comment:  Historically the “NOCs” used […]