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The parties estimate the adjustment for the car- Aereas Inteligentes S/A and General Director delivered by Maersk Drilling subsidiary Hori-
ryforward payment will be approximately $2mn. of GOLLabs, innovation lab focused on the zon56, for the drilling campaign offshore Mex-
The purchase price reflects both remaining airline industry. He was also Director of Tech- ico. RigFlow supports a strong operational
cashflow under the Service Contracts and rever- nology at Webjet Linhas Aéreas, DASA, CVC, performance by standardising and digitalising
sion costs for the Service Contracts, estimated and President of the Deliberative Council of the the core workflows involved in well construc-
at approximately $14mn, that are scheduled to Brazilian e-Business Association, between 2015 tion, including real-time exchange of infor-
end on December 31, 2022. The Transaction is and 2016. He has also worked as a technology mation between onshore planning units, the
subject to customary closing conditions and is consultant for Hospital Sírio Libanês, GJP Hotéis offshore drilling teams, and the service compa-
expected to close on or before November 30, Exclusivos, MOVIDA Aluguel de Carros, JSL SA nies supporting the operations.
2022. and Grupo COMPORTE. He holds patents for Maersk Voyager is a high-spec ultra-deep-
New Stratus Energy, September 8 2022 technological solutions aimed at reducing oper- water drillship which was delivered in 2014. It
ational costs and improving the airline customer is currently mobilising for a drilling campaign
experience, and has been awarded more than 36 offshore Suriname with Shell.
POLICY prizes issued by the largest entities in the Brazil- Maersk Drilling, September 8 2022
ian IT market during his career.
Petrobras appoints chief Petrobras, September 5 2022 Alvopetro announces

digital transformation and PROJECTS & COMPANIES discovery at Caburé
innovation office Unit-C well

Petrobras informs that its CEO Caio Mário Paes Maersk Drilling secures Alvopetro Energy announces a discovery at our
de Andrade has appointed Paulo Palaia for the six-month extension for 49.1% Caburé Unit C well, record August sales
position of Chief Digital Transformation and volumes and an operational update.
Innovation Officer, replacing Juliano Dantas. drillship with Shell 7-CARN-2D-BA Well (Unit-C Well): The
The nomination will be submitted to the Unit-C well at the Caburé Unit (49.1% Alvo-
internal corporate governance procedures, Shell has exercised an option to extend the pro- petro) was spud in July and drilled to a total
including the respective compliance and visioning of the 7th generation drillship Maersk measured depth (MD) of 2,096 metres. Based on
integrity analyses required for the company’s Voyager for drilling services offshore Mexico. Alvopetro’s analysis of open hole logs and fluid
succession process, forwarded to the People The contract extension is expected to com- samples confirming hydrocarbons, the well has
Committee for appreciation and then to the mence in April 2023, in direct continuation of potential net pay in multiple formations using a
Board of Directors for deliberation. the rig’s current contract, with a firm duration of 6% porosity cut-off, 50% Vshale cut-off and 50%
Paulo Palaia holds a Bachelor’s degree in six months. The contract value of the extension water saturation cut-off. The well was drilled
Data Processing from Braz Cubas University is approx. $77mn, excluding integrated services with development objectives in the Pojuca and
and an improvement in Strategic IT Manage- expected to be provided and potential perfor- Marfim sands that are producing from, or tested
ment from UC Berkeley. He has more than 37 mance bonuses. hydrocarbons in, the offsetting Unit well (IMET-
years of career in Information Technology and The parties have further amended the options 10). The well was also drilled with exploratory
experience in various market segments, hold- included in the contract, so that it now contains objectives in the deeper Maracangalha sands
ing for the last 27 years leadership positions as options to add up to 18 months of additional that are producing on the eastern side of the
the chief technology executive of the institu- drilling work. bounding fault. The well encountered a total of
tions where he worked. He was for more than Maersk Drilling and Shell have further 52.6 metres of potential net hydrocarbon pay at
9 years Technology Director at GOL Linhas agreed to also implement the RigFlow solution, an average 37.2% water saturation and average
porosity of 16.8% in multiple formations. Fluid
samples were also collected using a formation
testing tool with natural gas being recovered
from a sand in the Maracangalha Formation at
1,443.5 metres total vertical depth and oil from
a deeper sand at 1,633.6 metres total vertical
depth.
Potential net pay is summarised, by forma-
tion, as follows:
Formation: Pojuca; Objective: Development;
Net pay: 19.9 metres; Water Saturation: 31.9%;
Porosity: 24.6%.
Formation: Marfim; Objective: Develop-
ment; Net pay: 3.9 metres; Water Saturation:
30.4%; Porosity: 12.1%.
Formation: Maracangalha; Objective: Explo-
ration; Net pay: 28.8 metres; Water Saturation:
41.7%; Porosity: 12.1%.
Total – Net pay: 52.6 metres; Water Satura-
tion: 37.2%; Porosity: 16.8%.

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