Brazil advances with plan to drill oil at the mouth of the Amazon River

Brazil advances with plan to drill oil at the mouth of the Amazon River

Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to begin offshore oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. In a May 19 decision, the agency greenlit a concept for an emergency response plan by Petrobras (PBR) to protect marine animals in case of […]

Public hearings, meetings and talks on embargoes of the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Natural Resources Renewable (Ibama) in Amazon. An action by the body against "illegal decommissioning" carries more than 70 thousand hectares of land in the Amazon region. https://youtu.be/19PvZZufsI?si=DBS5Zd80CqhGwqv The Ibama published an online editorial. In material, the institute communicates the embargo and has already ordered the withdrawal…

The Brazilian Environmental Agency IBAMA has approved an important step that could soon enable the state oil company Petrobras to start offshore oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon. In a decision of 19 May, the authority approved a plan for an emergency plan of Petrobras (PBR) to protect marine animals in the event of an oil disaster. This [...] The post Brazil drives plan for oil extraction at the mouth of the Amazon first appeared on lat…

TotalEnergies: First oil of Mero-4

TotalEnergies announces one of the first oil from the fourth development phase of the Mero field on the Libra block, located 180 kilometres off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin. Launched in August 2021, this new phase, called “Mero-4”, will connect 12 wells to the new Alexandre de Gusmão FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) unit, with a production capacity of 180,000 barrels of oil per d…