Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and the Rio de Janeiro state authorities have signed a protocol of intentions (POI) to conduct joint research for the feasibility of implementing an offshore wind vitality pilot challenge.
The settlement establishes cooperation mechanisms and aligns with state packages and insurance policies, Petrobras stated in a information launch. It additionally stimulates actions to enhance the area the place the pilot will probably be applied.
Constructing a wind vitality pilot challenge within the Rio de Janeiro sea will enable Petrobras to check and qualify new applied sciences, it stated. Additional, it can assist outline methods to extend competitiveness and tackle the primary challenges to growing future tasks on a industrial scale, the corporate added.
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“Petrobras has a monitor document of utilizing intense know-how to allow massive maritime tasks, and the execution of pilot tasks is likely one of the instruments to amass the mandatory data at the side of the initiative of the most important offshore wind mapping marketing campaign in Brazil,” Petrobras Power Transition Director Maurício Tolmasquim stated.
“This partnership with Petrobras, acknowledged for innovating using new applied sciences and the appreciable potential to generate offshore wind vitality in Brazil, is a crucial effort for our course of to ascertain Rio de Janeiro as a key participant within the home vitality transition and safe a sustainable future for the state,” Rio De Janeiro Governor Cláudio Castro remarked.
Petrobras said that a number of elements of offshore wind vitality will probably be assessed to determine bottlenecks and technical points. The evaluation will contemplate the distinctiveness of one of many Brazilian areas with probably the most important potential for integration with the decarbonization of Petrobras’ E&P decarbonization actions, it added.
Since 2020, the corporate has been operating a marketing campaign to measure potential wind vitality by means of Lidar (Mild Detection and Ranging) know-how on the Autonomous Repumping Platform (PRA-1) within the Campos Basin, based on the information launch.
“These research will allow Petrobras to research future offshore wind alternatives below evaluation on the Nationwide Congress after the sector is regulated. Analysis and innovation are part of our day by day work, and we’re making use of the excellence of our Analysis Heart so we will be, as soon as extra, pioneers in using new applied sciences in Brazil,” Petrobras Engineering and Know-how Director Carlos Travassos said.
Petrobras’ partnership with the state of Rio de Janeiro is coupled with the POI revealed in December 2023. The POI was for the joint analysis of the implementation of a carbon dioxide (CO2) seize, utilization and storage (CCUS) hub pilot. The CCUS hub was for the event of a challenge within the northern area of Rio de Janeiro, which features a capability to carry 100,000 tons of CO2 per 12 months.
In Could, Petrobras signed a memorandum of understanding with the federal government of Rio Grande do Norte to discover the feasibility of a pilot offshore wind challenge within the state. In accordance with an earlier information launch, the corporate has probably the most potential offshore wind tasks below research in Brazil with purposes filed with Ibama, the Brazilian Institute of the Surroundings and Renewable Pure Assets.
The corporate stated it’s actively investing in analysis and improvement to make offshore wind a actuality. Petrobras stated it has requested licensing for tasks in 10 areas, totaling a possible capability of 23 gigawatts (GW). Seven of those tasks are within the Northeast area, with a mixed potential of 14.3 GW. Additional, in a collaboration with Equinor ASA, Petrobras stated it’s conducting research in seven additional areas, providing one other 14.5 GW of potential capability.
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