Petrobras, Brazil, has approved the early stage of contracting for platform P-62, slated to be installed in Module 4 at the Roncador Field, in the Campos Basin.

After carrying out several internal technical and economic studies, the company decided the best option was to reuse the P-54 project to build the P-62. In effect, Petrobras intends to “clone” platform P-54.

The P-62 will be a FPSO (Production, Storage, and Off-loading) type unit capable of producing 180,000 barrels of oil per day, of storing 1.8 million barrels of oil, and of compressing 6 million cubic meters of natural gas. The unit will be anchored at a water depth of 1,545 metres.

The P-54 was built in a period of 41 months after three agreements were signed in June 2004. The gas compression modules were built by the Dresser-Rand and Maua Jurong consortium.

The power generation module was made by Nuovo Pignone, while Jurong Shipyard was in charge of the hull conversion, in Singapore, and also of constructing the unit’s other modules. Jurong Shipyard was also in charge of integrating the unit at the Mauá shipyard, in Niterói.

source » Baird Online

Apparently Brazil isn’t good only in soccer; in the last decade Brazilian fighters put their names on top of the best MMA fighters in the world.
When we talk about MMA Fighters, names like Gracie, Ruas, Belfort, or Rizzo are very well known for had bring Brazil to the top of best fighters of the world. But this is not a surprise though, given that this sport basically originated in Brazil.

Anderson “The Spider” Silva

MMAWeekly, Sherdog, Nokaut and Yahoo Sports all currently rank Anderson “The Spider” Silva as the number one middleweight in the world, plus the No. 1 pound-for-pound mixed martial artist in the world. Anderson in the last 10 fights he won 9 and was disqualified in one of them for an illegal kick against Yushin Okami. He currently holds the title of Middleweight - Over 170 lbs. to 185 lbs for UFC.

Rumor has it that Anderson Silva expressed huge interest in fighting Roy Jones, Jr. in a box match to prove that MMA fighters are very technical too, in opposite of Roy Jones, Jr. keep saying.

After been badly criticized last week for not being consistent and not being able to finish the last two grand prix, Felipe Massa left every problem behind and focused in the race. Though the press worldwide talked about the end of his contract with Ferrari by the end of the year after his crash in the last grand prix in Malaysia, Massa proved to be a great driver and repeated the victory of last year to score his first points this year.

Seven-time world champion of Formula 1, Michael Schumacher acknowledged that the beginning of the season, Felipe Massa has not been good at all. But he still has time to recover and become champion of the 2008 season.

“The last few weeks have not been the most pleasant thing in my life. That’s life. It is not the first time that this happens. Today was a sensational day. I was fast and everything is better when I achieve the victory,” said Massa.

“I needed to win the race without doing anything wrong. I know that the last two races were a disaster and had to take the car back home without exaggerating. Nothing better than a great day to forget the last race. Now I need to maintain this mentality to win more races and score the highest number of points”, he completed.

What Brazil has the best to offer is its climate, and that’s what people like the most when they’re planning to go to the beach. Imagine if you spend a lot of money to go to this amazing beach and when you get there it start raining and never stops. How would you feel about that? I presume that really mad.

To avoid this kind of inconvenience you have to pick a place where the climate is perfect all year round, and this place
Is called Brazil. The beaches in Brazil are pure diversion, leisure and beauty the all year long.

With a variety of options will make you leave the routine and have pretty good unforgettable moments. You’ll have the chance to enjoy the sun, the water of the sea, the beauty of the beaches and specially yourself.

If you like to drive you can go from north to south enjoying the extensive Brazilian coast and discover the wonders that the beaches of Brazil reserves for you!

You can check out some information in this website from the department of tourism
http://www.turismo.gov.br/

In the benefit of having a wonderful climate, Brazil has the perfect environment to offer for farmers to produce grain in great scale, that’s why many investors and producers from abroad are moving to Brazil.

After 20 years of being behind US in soy export Brazil with honors surpass US becoming the #1 exporter of Soy in the world in 2007, and also the #1 exporter of coffee, orange juice and beef.

Since the president Lula released the law that says Brazil has to mix 5% of Biodiesel in regular Diesel by the end of 2012 many small farmers from northeast are harvesting Castor Oil and Jatropha to sell for Biodiesel refineries.

The incentives for planting for Biodiesel production are enormous, some refinery are buying the harvest of 5 years in advance and there’s a chance of this small cooperatives of farmers to get some money out of the Kyoto’s Protocol too.

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing Greenhouse gases that cause climate change. It was agreed on 11 December 1997 at the 3rd Conference of the Parties to the treaty when they met in Kyoto, and entered into force on 16 February 2005.