Petrobras will christen platform P-59 at the São Roque do Paraguaçu yard, in Maragogipe (state of Bahia) on Friday, July 13. Scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., the christening ceremony will be attended by the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, the Governor of the state of Bahia, Jaques Wagner, and Petrobras CEO, Maria das Graças Foster.

The P-59 is a self-raising drilling rig and will initially be assigned to the Peroá Profundo exploratory well, located in the Peroá field off the coast of Espírito Santo. The rig is capable of operating at sites with a water depth of 10 to 106 meters and drilling wells up to 9,144 meters long under elevated pressure and temperature conditions.

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