2025 Offshore Brazil Regional Report

This report offers a comprehensive overview of Brazil's offshore oil and gas industry in 2025, highlighting exploration successes, technological advancements and strategic developments shaping the deepwater sector.

The second annual Offshore Brazil Regional Report delivers timely insights into one of the world’s most dynamic offshore markets, spotlighting key exploration milestones, technology trends and strategic developments shaping deepwater operations.

Highlights include:

  • Rystad Energy highlights the latest exploration updates and other developments in 2025 and historical challenges of operators. 
  • Video: One of MODEC's top execs, Soichi Ide, chats with Offshore about FPSO trends, digitalization and more.
  • Strohm provides a recap of its pipe's path to commercialization in Brazil's deepwater, from the JIP with Shell and Petrobras a few years ago to the field trials that were just completed.
  • The Viridien Earth Data team provides seismic imaging of the Equatorial Margin's Foz do Amazonas Basin.
  • ABS places a focus on offshore support vessel (OSV) procurement offshore Brazil.
  • The Energy Workforce & Technology Council discusses what bp’s Bumerangue discovery means for Brazil’s offshore future and how US service companies can be partners in bringing it to production.
  • Baker Hughes presents a case study on a systems approach that was used to address artificial lift challenges for an operator on a heavy oil field offshore Brazil.
  • Industry news from key players offshore Brazil highlights the heavy amount of activity in this region.

The Offshore editorial team wrote or arranged the material for this special report, putting a strong emphasis on market outlooks, technology advances and topics that will likely trend over the next year. 

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drilling rig offshore Brazil
The Brazilian upstream sector experiences a positive turn with bp's significant Bumerangue discovery and Petrobras' successful appraisal wells, amid increased exploration activity...
Sept. 11, 2025
Courtesy Offshore
Executive Q&A with MODEC's Soichi Ide
MODEC's Soichi Ide provides insights into the future of FPSO design and operations, including the role of digitalization, AI, modular construction and decarbonization strategies...
Sept. 5, 2025
Courtesy Strohm
Q2 2025 Petrobras field trials
Strohm, Shell, Petrobras and DNV collaborated on the rigorous testing, qualification process and successful offshore trials of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) designed to withstand...
Sept. 11, 2025
Courtesy Viridien/TGS
Figure 1. seismic Amapa Phase I
Advances in seismic imaging are proving critical to unlock the hydrocarbon potential of promising frontier basins.
Aug. 26, 2025
Courtesy ABS
Future OSV - copyright ABS
Digitalization, safety standards and environmental considerations are transforming offshore support vessel (OSV) design and operation globally, with a focus on sustainable fuels...
By renatopmeireles/Envato; courtesy Energy Workforce and Technology Council
stock art image of offshore oil and gas operations offshore Brazil
bp's recent Bumerangue discovery has the potential to redefine an entire region of the oil and gas industry, but even the most significant discovery will stall without the right...
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Baker Hughes artificial lift case study
Baker Hughes provided artificial lift assistance to an operator offshore Brazil seeking to improve its output on a heavy oil field.
April 28, 2025
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offshore Brazil oil and gas operations
The offshore sector in Brazil has experienced robust growth in 2025, with increased drilling activity, record production levels, and strategic acquisitions and sales by key players...
Sept. 12, 2025

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