Apertura Energy has agreed to acquire a Brazilian oilfield services business for £25 million, according to a report from Proactive financial news.

The deal marks the company's move into South America's largest hydrocarbon market, where deepwater pre-salt development and sustained activity offshore the Santos and Campos basins continue to drive demand for well services, intervention work, and equipment. Brazil's oilfield services sector has drawn steady interest from international buyers as Petrobras and its partners maintain a multi-year program of floating production installations and subsea tiebacks.

Proactive reported the transaction value at £25 million. The identity of the target company and the transaction structure — whether all cash, staged consideration, or carrying earn-out terms — were not disclosed in the initial report.

For Apertura Energy, the acquisition would add an operating services platform in a basin complex where operators have sanctioned multiple newbuild FPSOs over the past several years. Service companies with local content certifications and established Petrobras vendor standing command premium positioning in contract tenders, a factor that shapes valuation in Brazilian services deals.

The report did not specify an expected closing date, financing arrangements, or whether the transaction requires regulatory clearance from Brazil's antitrust authority, CADE, or the country's oil regulator, ANP.

Watch for deal terms in a formal announcement: completion timeline, funding structure, and the target's existing contract backlog will determine how quickly the acquisition contributes to Apertura's revenue base.