21 Dec 2009 - by PreSalt.com - Source: Agência Petrobras & Agência Brasil
The Board of Directors of the Merchant Marine Fund (FMM) today (18) approved, after two-day meeting, in Rio de Janeiro, 161 priority projects that will receive funding totaling 14.241 billion reais (8.13 billion U.S. dollars). The information was given by the Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Chairman of the Board of FMM, Paulo Sergio Passos. The approved projects do not include drilling rigs for Petrobras.
The Board of Directors of the Merchant Marine Fund (CDFMM) today approved funding for the first 10 ships of the second phase of the Expansion and Modernization Transpetro Fleet Program (Promef).The Fund will support the construction of seven oil tankers in the South Atlantic Shipyard (EAS) and three vessels for transportation of bunker (fuel oil) Shipyard Superpesa.
Petrobras’ average oil and natural gas production in Brazil topped-out at 2,309,567 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) in November. This mark is 6.6% more than the previous month’s (2,167,236 boe/day). Only considering oil production, the rise was 7.9% in 12 months. The Company’s exclusive natural gas production in Brazil (50.7 million cubic meters per day), meanwhile, remained at the same level as that of November 2008 and October 2009.
This Friday (12/18), Petrobras, BG Group, Repsol and Galp Energia, partners in the joint venture aimed to build an onboard natural gas liquefaction unit (ONGU) to use the gas from the pre-salt area, signed the agreements with the best bidders in the tender to develop the FEEDs (Front End Engineering and design) for the liquefaction unit.
