Express Engineering, one of the UK’s fastest growing precision engineering companies, has announced a joint venture with Brastec, a Brazilian partner, to form Petrotec Components Ltda.

Many tie back systems are in use in Brazilian subsea fields today and new systems are being tested. Some go straight to an FPSO while others may be going to shore.

BG Group reported that it has had success in the Santos Basin pre-salt and expects more good news in the near future.

Since 1973 Petrobras has been investing in Subsea technology through the Cenpes center of research. In 2003 the LabOceano research center at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) was inaugurated and now in 2009, a partnership between Petrobras and UFRJ launched a new automation and control research center.

BG Group and Petrobras to use FEED technology to develop the world´s first FLNG unit for use in Brazilian deepwater pre-salt field. Aspen Aerogels has been to supplying its advanced Spaceloft™ aerogel insulation for a 21-kilometer, undersea natural gas pipeline being built by Technip for Petrobras in Brazil.

OGX Petroleo e Gas Ltda., which is Brazil´s largest independent oil company, currently operating nine exploratory blocks in the Campos and Santos Basins has chosen to use only GE´s VetcoGray wellhead systems.

A look at some of the problems that are encountered in deepwater tie-back systems

Anadarko´s oil find in the Wahoo #2 well in the Campos Basin and OGX´s major increase in exploration drilling in Brazil all point to a high potential, low risk scenario in the Brazilian O&G fields.