WorldOil

Dec 2011

• What industry leaders expect in 2012

  Despite high oil prices and a shale-driven boom in drilling activity, the approach of a new year brings with it plenty of reasons to be concerned for the future of the oil and gas industry.

  Deepwater, Drilling and Completions, Exploration, Industry Overview, Offshore, Onshore, Production, Shale, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America Read More

Apr 2011

• Petrobras builds technology to optimize presalt recovery

  Author Pramod Kulkarni

  Named 2011 Petroleum Executive of the Year by the Energy Intelligence information service, JOSÉ SERGIO GABRIELLI took office as Petrobras CEO in 2005.

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Dec 2010

• Innovative thinkers

  Author Nell Lukosavich

  Chilean miner rescue: The drilling team that defied all odds 

  Drilling and Completions, Onshore, North America, South America Read More

Sep 2010

• BRAZIL PRE-SALT: Master plan for the Santos Basin pre-salt cluster development

  Author Jose Formigli, Mauro Yuji Hayashi, Fernando Mauricio de Aquino Mendes, Mariana de Souza Muniz Pinto and Michèlle Correia Sampaio

  To bring online its most promising deepwater province, Petrobras is employing a management model designed for integrated and harmonious planning and execution.

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Sep 2010

• BRAZIL PRE-SALT: Pre-salt development gathers speed

  Author John L. Kennedy

  Only four years after the first discovery below the thick salt layer in Brazil’s deep water, a lengthening list of new finds indicates a long stretch of pre-salt reservoirs where three early successes may contain a total of as much as 14 billion boe.

  Deepwater, Drilling and Completions, Exploration, Offshore, Production, South America Read More