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• The FPSO will be deployed in the giant pre-salt area at the southern part of Campos Basin, some 200 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Splash247
• The Sepetiba FPSO is owned by Dutch operator SBM Offshore and will be chartered to Petrobras for deployment at the Mero field in the Santos Basin, 180 kilometres offshore Rio de Janeiro. Brazil Energy Insight
• The 355-kilometre Route 3 pipeline will transport up to 18 million cubic metres per day of gas from Brazil's pre-salt fields to an onshore natural gas processing unit at the Petrobras-run Comperj petrochemicals complex in Rio de Janeiro state. Upstream Online | Latest oil and gas news
• The FPSO will be the sixth unit of the definitive system to be installed at Petrobras' Buzios field in the Santos Basin, approximately 180 kilometers offshore Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Offshore Energy
• Bolsonaro allies will govern Brazil's three most populous states, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Americas Quarterly
• For casinos, provisions will allow the populous states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Parana, and Amazonas to host two casino resorts, while Sao Paulo will be allowed three properties within its state borders. SBC News
• Slated for delivery in 2029, the FPSOs P - 84 and P - 85 will be deployed in the Atapu and Sepia fields, located in the eastern part of the Santos Basin, approximately 200 kilometers offshore of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. MarineLink
• Once in Brazil, the FPSO will be installed in the Mero field development, 180 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the deepwater Santos Basin. MarineLink
• Rio de Janeiro, Goias, and Parana will be the first states to issue identification documents on-chain through a private blockchain developed by Serpro, Brazil's national data processing service. CoinTelegraph
• In other major cities, such as Amsterdam, Tokyo, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro and New York, extreme flooding could also become a regular occurrence. State of the Planet
• The FPSO will be deployed at the Mero unitized field located in the Santos Basin approximately 160 kilometers (99.4 miles) offshore Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, under a 22.5-year lease and operate contract with Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras). rigzone.com
• Gas from the offshore field will be directly injected into the national gas grid via a 200 kilometers pipeline landing at the city of Macae in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Reuters
• Potential wind farms are located off the coast of the states of Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, and Rio Grande do Sul, and could generate 14.5 GW of energy. Eurasia Review
• The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation has warned of an alarming increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Brazilian States of Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Rio Grande do Sul. MercoPress
• Restoring nature means clean water and boosts health: in Rio de Janeiro restoring forests is predicted to save up to $79 million in water treatment costs. Future World News
• The three biggest and most important states in Brazil - Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo - will be governed by pro-Bolsonaro governors from 2023. The Conversation
• The city of Rio de Janeiro is seeking crypto firms to operate its tax property seasoning in 2023, allowing taxpayers to use crypto alongside fiat currency to pay tributes. CoinTelegraph
• The newbuild FPSO will be one of the largest vessels to be deployed in the Buzios field, an ultra-deepwater oil and gas field covering an area of 853 km² in the pre-salt Santos Basin, about 180 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. World Oil
• There was a new air of hope in Rio de Janeiro state more broadly, as the acceleration in oil investment starts to feed into the broader economy. What I learned on my first trip to Brazil in two years
• In the last five years, a restoration project in Brazil has recovered 5,000 ha of forest cover in a watershed serving Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with plans to reforest another 1.5 million ha by 2030. Future Crunch

Last updated: 26 June 2025