Japanese yard Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd said it will buy a 30 percent shareholding in Brazilian shipbuilder Estaleiro Enseada do Paraguacu S.A
12 May 2012 Read more... |
 Two yards from Singapore and one from Brazil are the leaders in a tender likely to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars for completion and integration of eight fl oating production storage and offl oading (FPSO) vessels for Petrobras
11 May 2012 Read more... |
Petrobras to import up to 80,000 barrels per day
18 April 2012 Read more... |
Petrobras puts pressure on drilling rig supplier
18 April 2012 Read more... |
70% of drilling rig orders are concerning
18 April 2012Petrobras CEO
Graça Foster is concerned about the Brazilian shipyards. The main reason is
that 70% of Petrobras´ drilling rig orders for pre-salt exploration in Brazil
are to be built in shipyards that are either under construction or have serious
management issues. The shipyards currently operating are swamped
with orders. The shipyards themselves are concerned about delivering the
first drilling rigs on time (which are due in 2015). Petrobras ordered
the construction of 33 drilling rigs in Brazil and is in the final stages of
acquiring another two drilling rigs. The construction costs are estimated at
US$28bn. Read more... |
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