Brazil’s Petrobras is due to receive commercial bids this week in a tender to contract well intervention services and workover activities in oil production, gas injection and water injection wells at mature offshore fields in the Ceara and Potiguar basins, writes Fabio Palmigiani.

Invited contractors were set to submit offers on 2 August to supply Petrobras with hydraulic production rigs that can be installed on the deck of fixed production platforms at fields including Agulha, Arabaiana, Aratum, Atum, Biquara, Cioba, Curima, Espada, Pescada, Ubarana and Xareu.