Tag: rio de janeiro
Vallourec pipes for magnetic levitation train
Vallourec supplied seamless steel pipes to create a high road for the tracks for the Maglev-Cobra magnetic levitation train, being currently tested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which levitates silently on magnetic tracks, at an average speed of 70 km/hour.
Pipeline project contract for voestalpine in Brazil
The voestalpine Group secured its second major pipeline contract this year after South Stream. voestalpine will deliver 120,000 tons of sour-gas-resistant, high-strength linepipe plates for the third Petrobras pipeline near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by March 2015.
New discovery in the Rights Transfer Area
Petrobras has discovered good-quality oil in the fourth well drilled in the Rights Transfer area in the Santos Basin pre-salt cluster. The well, 3-BRSA-1053-RJS (3-RJS-699), known as Franco SW, is located at a water depth of 2,024 m, some 210 km off the coast of the city of Rio de Janeiro and 17 km south of discovery well 2-ANP-1-RJS (Franco).
