Following the arrival of a drillship at its drill site, Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras is getting ready to embark on the pre-operational assessment, as the final stage of the licensing process for drilling a deepwater well in Amapá.

As one of the resources that will be put into practice during the pre-operational assessment, which is scheduled to begin on August 24, the Foresea ODN II (NS-42) drillship , chartered by Petrobras, arrived at the location in block FZA-M-59, located in the deep waters of Amapá, on the evening of Monday, August 18.