3/29/2019 Ocyan has adopted a business model to offer more integrated services to the offshore market in Brazil. The strategy is to bring to the country technological solutions that can be applied in the sector, through partnerships with foreign companies that have technologies used outside Brazil, but still do not act locally. The first agreement... Continue Reading →

Rio de Janeiro, March 29, 2019 - Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras reports that it has started the opportunity disclosure stage (Teaser), related to the sale of Liquigás Distribuidora S.A. (Liquigás). Liquigás is a wholly owned subsidiary of Petrobras and operates in bottling, distribution and sale of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The company operates in... Continue Reading →

March 29, 2019 Equinor made its second discovery in the area of ​​Norte de Carcará, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. The West Saturn drill ship found evidence of hydrocarbons during the drilling of the 3-EQNR-1-SPS well in water depth of 2,079,000 m. The identification was made less than two months after the beginning... Continue Reading →

March 29, 2019 The Board of Directors of PPSA (Pre-Salt Oil) chose mechanical engineer José Eduardo Vinhaes Gerk as its new CEO. He will take over from April 1 in the place of engineer Ibsen Flores Lima. Gerk will also have a vacancy in the board of directors of the state-owned company. The new president... Continue Reading →

A.P. Moller – Maersk has decided to retain full ownership of Maersk Supply Service, a company operating in the offshore support vessel industry. The company decided to retain the ownership of Maersk Supply Service after investigating several structural solutions but couldn’t find the right fit, due to signs of distress in the offshore support vessel... Continue Reading →

Dutch FPSO supplier SBM Offshore might need to pay 2 million euros for not disclosing price sensitive information timely between 2012-2014, which SBM has denied. This was related to SBM’s internal investigation over alleged improper payments by its agents to sales agents and foreign government officials in Equatorial Guinea, Angola, and Brazil in the period... Continue Reading →

Norwegian offshore shipowner Solstad Offshore has signed a contract with Shell for the platform supply vessel Normand Starling. It has also won contracts for two PSVs with an undisclosed client. The vessel, built in 2013 and formerly known as Far Starling, will begin its contract with Shell in the second quarter of 2019. The contract... Continue Reading →