Tag: Campos Basin

• Tuesday, November 18th 2025 - 20:21 UTC

  Brazil: New oil reserves found in Campos Basin

  

  Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras announced this week the discovery of an oil reservoir in the Campos Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. As per initial assessments, the oil found is of “excellent quality.”

• Monday, May 12th 2025 - 10:04 UTC

  Petrobras strikes high-quality oil in Santos Basin Pre-Salt Aram block

  

  Petrobras has announced a new oil discovery in the pre-salt Santos Basin, identifying “high-quality oil without contaminants” at the 3-BRSA-1396D-SPS exploratory well in the Aram block, located 248 kilometers off the coast of Santos, at a water depth of 1,952 meters

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 08:54 UTC

  Petrobras strikes oil in the pre-salt Campos Basin offshore Rio de Janeiro

  

  Brazil's oil and gas giant Petrobras announced a hydrocarbon discovery in the pre-salt Campos Basin offshore Rio de Janeiro state, some 200 kilometers from the coast and at a depth of 2,950 meters.

• Friday, September 28th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Oil majors to bid for Brazil's offshore potential despite electoral uncertainty

  

  Oil majors are set to gather in Rio de Janeiro this Friday to unveil bids for stakes in Brazil’s high potential offshore areas ahead of elections that are casting a cloud of uncertainty over the industry.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:22 UTC

  BP, Shell, Total to bid in Brazil's pre-salt auction

  

  Brazil’s oil regulator ANP has approved the applications of six companies—including Big Oil’s BP, Shell, and Total—to bid in next month’s oil auction of four blocks in the coveted pre-salt layer, ANP announced on Wednesday.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 08:27 UTC

  Debilitated Brazilian government challenged with an oil-workers 72-hour strike

  

  Brazilian oil workers began a 72-hour strike on Wednesday in a new blow to President Michel Temer following a nationwide trucker protest that has strangled Latin America's largest economy for over a week. The strike affecting several rigs, refineries, plants and ports is the latest challenge for state-led oil firm Petrobras, whose shares have tumbled nearly 30% in two weeks over fears that political interference would unwind more investor-focused policies.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2017 - 09:21 UTC

  Total begins oil production in the giant Libra field in Brazil's pre-salt zone

  

  The giant Libra field in Brazil’s pre-salt zone has started producing oil, French Total said on Monday without providing details about the production rate at the field.

• Saturday, November 21st 2015 - 08:01 UTC

  Petrobras back to normal activity as splinter union ends 20-day strike

  

  Earlier on Friday a key Petrobras workers union voted to end a 20-day strike that disrupted output. Workers at the Sindipetro Norte Fluminense local, who had ignored the largest oil workers' union FUP's call to end the strike that started on November first, will return to work Friday evening at onshore operations, union spokesman Tezeu Bezerra.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2015 - 08:22 UTC

  Petrobras splinter union refuses to end strike and calls members to abandon offshore vessels

  

  Brazilian oil workers union local responsible for the bulk of the country's oil and gas output told its members on Tuesday to abandon Petrobras vessels operating in the Campos Basin, Brazil's most productive oil district.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2015 - 09:58 UTC

  Brazil oil workers stage national strike and stopped operations at 22 rigs

  

  Oil workers staging a national strike in Brazil said on Monday they had stopped all operations at 22 of state-controlled oil giant Petrobras's 44 rigs in the Campos basin, an offshore area that accounts for about 80% of the country's oil output. Oil workers declared a strike on Sunday.