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Chevron Confirms first oil production from deepwater Papa-Terra offshore Brazil

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Chevron’s Brazilian subsidiary and Petrobras have started crude oil production from Papa-Terra’s floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) offshore Brazil. Papa-Terra has installed capacity to produce 140,000 barrels of heavy crude per day; the project is estimated to recover 380 million barrels of oil.

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Shell delivers more Brazil deep-water production from Parque das Conchas; 3rd phase of project

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Shell and its joint venture announced the start of oil production from the third phase of the deep-water Parque das Conchas (BC-10) development in Brazil’s Campos Basin. The development is the first of its kind based fully on subsea oil and gas separation and subsea pumping.

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Glencore buying in to Hydro Alunorte alumina refinery, MRN bauxite mining in Brazil

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Green areas indicate forests, bright white areas indicate non-forested ground, and blue areas are water. Mining leases are shown as white polygons overlying Landsat imagery for 1985 and 2015. Landsat pixel-based cloud-free mosaic, bands 3, 2, 1. Figure from Sonter et al.

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Petrobras’ June oil production in Brazil up 1.7% exceeding 2M bpd; gas production reaches record

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Petrobras’s June oil production in Brazil averaged 2,008 thousand barrels/day (bpd), up 1.7% Including the production operated by Petrobras for its partners in Brazil, the volume reached 2,135 thousand bpd, up 2.1% from May’s production of 1,975 thousand bpd. from last month’s production of 2,092 thousand bpd.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Petrobras confirms discovery of new oil province in ultra-deep-water Brazil

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Petrobras has confirmed the presence of oil and gas accumulations in the ultra-deep waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin, after completing a lined well formation test in the BM-SEAL-11 concession in Block SEAL-M-426. This is the first exploratory project in ultra-deep waters on the Sergipe state side of the basin.

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Shell starts production at Vito in US Gulf of Mexico; new, simplified design

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With an estimated peak production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, Vito is the company’s first deep-water platform in the GoM to employ a simplified, cost-efficient host design. Vito is Shell’s 13 th deep-water host in the Gulf of Mexico.

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