Petrobras will invest BRL 60 million in a new sea wind testing and measuring phase by releasing new BRAVO buoy units to collect, monitor, and assess offshore wind resources. The technology, designed in an unprecedented way for the Brazilian sea, is the outcome of a successful R&D I project by the Petrobras Center for Research, Development, and Innovation (Cenpes) in partnership with the SENAI Institute of Renewable Energy Innovation (ISI-ER), and the SENAI Institute of Onboard System Innovation (ISI-SE). The first five new units will start operating in December, while the others will be in late 2025, resuming the projects that began with the pioneering Bravo unit, which has just completed one year of nonstop wind measuring operations in the Areia Branca Sea on the coast of Rio Grande do Norte.

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Hunting Energy Services, Subsea Technologies division supporting DeepOcean has successfully completed another campaign in the North Sea using Enpro Subsea’s proven Field Decommissioning (F-Decom) system. The recent campaign on Shell UK Limited (Shell) Brent Bravo concrete structure was completed with no safety incidents, ahead of schedule and within budget.