Professor Raquel S. Peixoto: The Coral Warrior
to learn more, collect, store, and analyze microbes from the Red Sea. Professor Peixoto believes that the Red Sea could hold answers for the aid and recovery of corals around the world. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology, M.S. in biotechnology and B.S. in biological sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Watch Professor Raquel Peixoto on Marine Technology TV
UFRJ Nautilus: A Brazilian AUV Project
The UFRJ Nautilus AUV is an academic project designed to develop autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology in Brazil and participate in the annual Robosub competition. According to project founder, Lucas Armand, a Naval and Ocean Engineering graduate from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the emergence of Nautilus has a lot to do with personal history: “I was having a difficult time in college, because I no longer identified myself with the course. The UFRJ Naval Engineering degree tends to be quite traditional – sometimes even old-fashioned &ndash
Reviewing Sapinhoá-Lula NE BSR System
, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) SURF contract awarded to date in Brazil. The pioneering technology for connecting a large number of wells to a single FPSO was developed by the Petrobras’ research center (Cenpes) and Subsea 7, with the support of UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and USP (University of São Paulo). The project required the installation of four huge 2,800ton submerged buoys approximately 250 meters below the surface. The system was designed to accommodate a combination of 45 risers/umbilicals for each field in a small area in a decoupled
Students Face Off in Underwater Competition
of Arizona; University of California Riverside; University of Central Florida; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Florida; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; University of Southern California; and Utah State University.International teams included: Brazil’s Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Canada’s McGill University, University of British Columbia and University of Victoria; China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University; India’s Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; Japan’s Kyushu Institute of Technology; Russia’s Far Eastern Federal
Brazil Offshore: Petrobras & Subsea Engineering
year, reaching $1.1 billion in 2012. Petrobras rarely operates alone when it comes to subsea engineering and construction. Partnerships are part of Petrobras’ DNA and by working in cooperation with institutions such as the ANP (National Petroleum Regulator), universities such as the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and service companies like FMC Technologies, Subsea 7 and DeepOcean, Petrobras has found solutions to many problems and challenges in subsea development that might have taken much longer to realize if the company were to go at it alone. Some of the problems and challenges
Cenpes Leading Petrobras’ R&D Effort
de Pesquisas e Desenvolvimento Leopoldo Américo Miguez de Mello,” and it is reportedly the largest research complex in the Southern hemisphere, located about 10km from downtown Rio de Janeiro at Fundão Island, which is part of a technological complex administered by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Both the old Cenpes center and the new building are located within what is known as the UFRJ Technology Park (or Rio Technology Park), which also houses Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, FMC Technologies, Halliburton, BG, and will also see R&D centers from General Electric, Tenaris
February 2024
