Mensajepor adxrsi » Vie Nov 21, 2014 1:36 pm
8:21 am Petrobras Brasileiro announced that the offshore platform Cidade de Ilhabela started-up this Thursday, November 20, in the Santos Basin pre-salt field of Sapinhoa (PBR) : The offshore platform was set up at a site where the water depth reaches 2,140 meters, some 310 km off the coast of Sao Paulo state. It will be able to produce up to 150 thousand barrels of oil per day, compress up to 6 million m /day of natural gas and store 1.6 million barrels of oil. Moreover, the platform will be able to inject 180 thousand barrels of water per day. Well 3-SPS-69, the first to go into operation, has a production potential of 32 thousand bpd. The oil produced in Sapinho field is of excellent quality -- 29 API on average -- and is to be offloaded by tankers.
The estimated local content for Sapinho field development is above 55%, higher than the 30% minimum local content stipulated by Brazil's National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency.
8:08 am Kaman's Kaman Aerosystems awarded contract extension by Bell Helicopter for commercial rotor blade components; expected value in excess of $24 mln (KAMN) : This three-year follow on contract has an expected value in excess of $24 mln. The components will continue to be manufactured at Kaman's facility in Bloomfield, Connecticut.