Sept. 30 - After departing the Benoi shipyard in Singapore on July 13th, the FPSO P-78 arrived today, September 30th, at the Búzios Field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin. The unit will now be connected to the wells to begin production shortly. The Búzios Field is located in ultra-deep waters of the Santos Basin at depths of up to 2,100... Continue Reading →
Carlos Slim Doubles Down on Pemex With $2B Drilling Deal
Sept. 30 (oilprice) Billionaire Carlos Slim’s Grupo Carso SAB has signed a $1.99 billion contract with state oil company Pemex to drill 32 wells at the Ixachi natural gas field in Veracruz over the next three years. The Ixachi field, one of Mexico’s most important onshore deposits, currently produces about 93,000 barrels of oil and... Continue Reading →
Angola’s Sonangol Prepares for Landmark IPO
Sept. 30 (oilprice) Angola’s state oil company, Sonangol, is preparing to list up to 30% of its shares in an initial public offering (IPO) sometime in the next 24 months in what would be a milestone that could reshape not only the company itself but the country’s broader economic trajectory. For decades, Sonangol has been... Continue Reading →
Brazil Is Destined to Become One of the World’s Top Five Oil Producers
Sept. 30 (oilprice) Recently, the International Energy Agency (IEA) identified Brazil as a key non-OPEC oil producer responsible for driving global production growth. A swathe of world-class ultra-deepwater pre-salt oil discoveries, the first made in the Lula field during 2006, are driving a massive offshore oil boom. Not only is Brazil Latin America’s largest oil producer, but the... Continue Reading →
MODEC Ramps Up Hammerhead FPSO Work After ExxonMobil’s Go-Ahead
Sept. 30 (OE) MODEC has been awarded the full engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) scope to develop a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Hammerhead project in Guyana following a final investment decision (FID) by ExxonMobil. In April 2025, MODEC received a Limited Notice to Proceed (LNTP) enabling it to commence FPSO design... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies launches savings plan, cuts capex after rising debt worries investors
Sept 29 (Reuters) - TotalEnergies will cut its annual capital expenditure by $1 billion, it said on Monday, as the French oil major sought to soothe investor fears over slow asset sales and rising debt at a meeting with investors in New York. The reduction in capex, to around $15–17 billion annually between 2027 and 2030,... Continue Reading →
Equatorial Guinea to open its 2026 oil and gas licensing round in April
Sept 29 (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea will open a new oil and gas licensing round in April to boost exploration and counter dwindling oil output, its minister of hydrocarbons and mining development Antonio Oburu Ondo said on Monday. "This ronda (licensing round) will be launched in the second quarter of 2026 right after the details... Continue Reading →
Baker Hughes to Supply Up to 50 Subsea Trees for Petrobras’ Brazil Fields
Sept. 29 (OE) Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, has secured a contract from Petrobras to supply up to 50 subsea tree systems and associated services to support offshore oil and gas production across multiple fields in Brazil. The modern subsea systems will enhance recovery in established fields including Albacora, Jubarte and Barracuda-Caratinga. They will... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC scores work on ExxonMobil’s seventh oil chapter in Guyana
Sept. 26 (offshore-energy.biz) UK-headquartered energy technology provider TechnipFMC has tucked under its belt a new multimillion-dollar subsea assignment, which will enable it to help ExxonMobil Guyana, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered ExxonMobil, to bring to life an offshore oil project in Guyana’s Stabroek block. While disclosing the award of a substantial subsea contract for ExxonMobil Guyana’s Hammerhead project,... Continue Reading →
DOF pulls off $390 million hat trick for Petrobras’ subsea oil & gas inspections
Sept. 26 (offshore-energy.biz) Norway’s vessel owner DOF Group has secured three assignments off the coast of Brazil, enabling it to undertake subsea inspections of underwater facilities operated by Petrobras, the South American country’s state-owned oil and gas giant. The award of three service contracts, which follows a competitive tender process, will enable DOF to execute subsea... Continue Reading →