Oil Spill & Emergency Response News in Brazil
| 10/23/2023 - Global oceans insights experts Miros, through local partner Belga Marine, has won a significant contract with Brazilian oil major Petrobras to update its existing oil spill detection efforts. ... |
| 7/7/2022 - Siem Offshore do Brasil has signed a new contract for the Oil Spill Response Vessel Siem Maragogi with a duration of 3 years, commencement 4Q22 and in direct continuation of current contract.
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| 5/17/2022 - Petrobras announces that there was a diesel oil spill followed by a fire at the Presidente Bernardes Refinery (RPBC), located in the city of Cubatão, in the state of São Paulo. The site wa... |
| 9/29/2021 - Petrobras informs that on Monday, 09/27, gas production was halted at the Manati field, located in the Camamu Basin, in the state of Bahia, due to a leak in the onshore portion of its export pipeline.... |
| 8/27/2019 - On Friday, August 23, 2019, MODEC, Inc. (MODEC) informed Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (PETROBRAS) that, after inspection at the external tanks, cracks were identified at the hull of FPSO Cidade do Rio de ... |
| 1/7/2019 - Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras reports the actions taken as a result of the oil leak that occurred on January 2 in one of the tanks of the FPSO Cidade de Rio de Janeiro, a unit chartered by the ... |
| 6/12/2017 - A fire on a platform belonging to Brazilian state oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA briefly halted oil and gas production late on Sunday, the company said, adding that there had been no injuries or dam... |
| 10/1/2013 - A Brazilian federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against No. 2 U.S. oil company Chevron Corp after approving a negotiated settlement, a decision that closes a nearly two-year legal battle over an oil spi... |
| 2/20/2013 - A Brazilian judge dropped criminal charges against Chevron Corp, Transocean Ltd and 17 of their employees related to a November 2011 offshore oil spill, the companies said. ... |
| 10/1/2012 - Transocean Ltd announced that on September 28, 2012, Brazilian Superior Court of Justice President, Minister Felix Fischer granted the request of the ANP, the Brazilian oil regulatory agency, and part... |
| 9/30/2012 - A Brazilian court overturned an injunction to suspend off-shore drilling by rig operator Transocean, accepting that it could have caused billions of dollars in lost revenue for the government and the ... |
| 9/27/2012 - Transocean Ltd announced that at approximately noon Rio De Janeiro time (11 a.m., ET), September 27, 2012, the federal court in Rio de Janeiro served the company with a preliminary injunction requirin... |
| 9/12/2012 - Transocean Ltd said a Brazilian court upheld a ruling that would prevent the world's largest offshore rig contractor from operating in the country because of an oil spill last November. Prosecutors se... |
| 8/17/2012 - Chevron, the No. 2 U.S. oil company, has appealed against an injunction banning it and its drilling contractor Transocean Ltd (RIG.N) from operating in Brazil while civil and criminal charges over an ... |
| 7/17/2012 - Brazilian regulator ANP said U.S. oil company Chevron Corp should soon be able to resume production in a field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state that the company shut down after detecting an oil s... |
| 4/3/2012 - OGX, the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private sector exploratory campaign in Brazil announces immediately that allegations of a possible oil spill in any of its exploratio... |
