Tag: Atlantic Ocean

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 23:37 UTC

  Brazil purchases high-tech oceanographic research vessel

  

  The Brazilian government announced on Monday that it will invest 162 million Reais (81 million dollars) in the purchase of a high-tech oceanography research vessel.

• Friday, June 29th 2012 - 03:00 UTC

  Uruguay’s project for a deepwater port on the Atlantic takes off

  

  Uruguay’s government is going forward with plans to build its first deepwater port along the Atlantic coastline in a place called “La Angostura”, an investment estimated in over 700 million dollars and which it wants to use as a platform to begin exporting iron-ore to China.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 16:42 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina agree to 3-month hake ban in the shared maritime zone

  

  Argentina and Uruguay agreed a ban on hake catching in the shared maritime zone beginning next July first, confirmed on Thursday Uruguayan Aquatic Resources Department (Dinara) sources.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 23:04 UTC

  Brazil suspends Chevron drilling rights until it clarifies the recent oil spill

  

  Brazil's National Oil Regulator (ANP) said on Wednesday that it is suspending the drilling rights of US oil major Chevron in national territory until it clarifies conditions of the recent oil spill in its Frade field.

• Thursday, August 11th 2011 - 06:21 UTC

  Brazilean company fully committed to oil exploration off-shore Namibia

  

  Brazilian oil and gas start-up HRT boosted its net potential oil resources 12% to 7.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) following a certification study of its assets in Namibia.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 06:23 UTC

  French team retrieves all salvageable bodies from 3.900 metres deep Atlantic

  

  The French search team has retrieved all salvageable bodies from the sunken wreckage of an Air France airliner which crashed in the sea off Brazil two years ago, victims' families said on Tuesday.

• Monday, May 9th 2011 - 05:57 UTC

  Second body recovered from Air France mid Atlantic wreckage

  

  French police said a second body has been removed from the underwater wreckage of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean nearly two years ago. A remote-controlled submarine raised a body that was still strapped into an airline seat some 3,900 metres to the water's surface Friday.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 18:05 UTC

  US must be more pro-active if it wants access to Brazilian oil, says Petrobras

  

  The United States must pay more importance to its strategic alliance with Brazil if it really wants to benefit from Petrobras’ recently discovered deep-water oil and natural gas reserves in the Atlantic Ocean, the company’s CEO, Jose Sergio Gabrielli, said.