Ampo Poyam Valves supplied an integrated smart solution with 25 severe-service ball valves, 25 control panels and one hydraulic power unit for CBMM's Tailings Thickening Dam No. 8 project at its Araxá plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The article is dated September 8, 2026.
Valmet inaugurated a manufacturing unit in Vespasiano, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which it says will triple its filtration solutions production capacity for mining. The unit was presented ahead of Exposibram 2026.
Halliburton announced that Petrobras awarded it multiple contracts for intelligent completions, electric safety valves and stimulation services in Brazil's deepwater fields, with work expected to begin in 2026.
Baker Hughes won a major multi-year fully integrated completions systems contract from Petrobras, following an open tender, to supply technology for deepwater offshore fields in Brazil.
TechnipFMC was awarded two subsea contracts by Petrobras for Brazil's pre-salt fields: a substantial contract for riser flexible pipe and a significant contract for subsea production systems for Atapu 2, Sepia 2 and Roncador, to be manufactured locally.
SLB OneSubsea, a joint venture of SLB, Aker Solutions and Subsea7, secured a Petrobras contract for subsea production systems for two ultra-deepwater fields offshore Brazil, with FPSOs expected to start producing from 2029.
SLB OneSubsea has won a Petrobras contract to supply pre-salt subsea production systems and services for the second development of the Atapu and Sepia fields in Brazil's Santos basin, with much equipment produced locally in Brazil.
Petrobras signed a $2.3 billion EPC contract with a Saipem and DSME joint venture to supply the P-79 FPSO for the Buzios field in Brazil's Santos Basin, with delivery scheduled for 2025.
Aker Solutions signed a contract with Equinor worth about NOK 2.5 billion (approximately US$264 million) to supply four subsea templates and up to 23 subsea Christmas trees for the Breidablikk field in the North Sea, with Brazil manufacturing at its São José dos Pinhais plant.