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A cracked hull in a Brazilian FPSO, the Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, has caused an oil spill around 130km (81 miles) off the coast of Brazil in the Espadarte oil field in the Campos Basin. Japanese offshore platform operator MODEC, which owns the vessel, informed Brazilian state-led oil company Petrobras of the incident on August 23. The vessel has been evacuated as a precautionary measure....
At least 60,000 litres of oil spilled into Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay and a nearby river on December 8 after an attempted robbery on a pipeline, according to a statement by Transpetro, part of the state-run oil and gas group Petrobras. The company said the oil had spilled into the Estrela River and immediate action by emergency teams ensured 75% of the oil had been cleaned up by the morning of December 10....
Three workers were killed after an explosion on board the NS-32 (Norbe VIII) drillship in the Marlim field in the Campos Basin off Brazil on June 9. One man was killed in the explosion in one of the vessel’s boilers and two others succumbed to their injuries two days later. The drillship is one of six under charter from Odebrecht Oil & Gas (OOG) for client Petrobras. ...
A worker received burn injuries to his hands during an explosion on March 5 at the Pasadena Refining System refinery in Texas, owned by Brazil's national oil company Petrobras. The explosion caused extensive damage to a 35,000 bpd light cycle oil hydrogen desulphurisation unit, which uses hydrogen to convert oil into diesel and remove sulphur....
An explosion on an offshore oil and gas production and storage vessel (FPSO) operated by Brazil's Petrobras has killed at least five workers and injured ten. The state-run group said 74 workers were on board the FPSO at the time and four of them remain missing. Brazil's oil industry regulator ANP said that a fire caused by the blast has been contained and the situation has been stabilised....
Three employees of state-owned oil giant Petrobras were hurt on January 19 in an explosion at a refinery near the northern city of Salvador. Three workers using an electric rotary sander on the inside of a hydrogen tank triggered the blast, according to reports. The company said there was no environmental damage and market supply will not be affected by the incident....
On July 22 fire authorities on Okinawa, southwestern Japan, ordered that all operations at Nansei Sekiyu KK’s Nishihara refinery be suspended following a gas explosion in a furnace. The 100,000-barrel-per-day refinery, wholly owned by Brazil's Petrobras, had been under maintenance since July 2 and was scheduled to be restarted on July 20. ...
Petroleo Brasileiro SA has approved a 2011-2015 business plan that calls for spending of $224.7 billion. This total reflects more exploration and production segment participation, going to 57%. New projects in E&P account for 87% of total new projects spending. About 95% of the total spending is to be in Brazil....
Small scale gas to liquids (GTL) facilities based on the use of microchannel reactors and designed for use on offshore platforms have the potential to turn unwanted associated gas into an energy asset and make wasteful flaring and expensive re-injection of gas a thing of the past....
Professionals dealing with electrical installations in explosive atmospheres face a difficult battle in their careers, as they need to be kept updated and standards change very fast.
Sometimes changes arise in new standard editions that seem contradictory to what was written previously, often leaving readers confused....