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Sept. 29 (OE) China-based BOMESC Offshore Engineering's wholly owned subsidiary Tianjin BOMESC has signed a contract with SBM Offshore for the design, procurement and construction of topside modules for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) destined for South America. Tianjin BOMESC Offshore Engineering will build the modules at the company's Lingang Offshore Heavy Industry... Continue Reading →
Sept. 21 (offshoreWIND.biz) Gazelle Wind Power has developed and tested a new floating offshore wind platform designed to support 18 MW turbines and beyond in extreme offshore conditions, with the company’s preliminary cost assessment indicating 44 per cent lower CAPEX and 52 per cent lower LCOE than the benchmark semi-submersible designs used in the study.... Continue Reading →
Sept.18 (oilnow.gy) Indonesia’s state-owned energy company PT Pertamina is exploring upstream oil and gas investments in Guyana and Suriname to secure more reliable energy sources. Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the company has started preliminary discussions on exploration and investment opportunities in the two South American countries. Indonesian state news agency ANTARA News... Continue Reading →
Sept. 11 (OE) SED Energy Holdings and Ventura Offshore have signed a letter of intent for an all-share combination that would create an energy services group with about $1.3 billion in contracted revenue backlog and an implied pro forma equity value of approximately $1 billion. Under the proposed transaction, SED Energy Holdings would acquire 100%... Continue Reading →
Sept. 8 (OE) Brazilian drilling contractor Ventura Offshore has entered into an agreement with Eldorado Drilling to provide marketing and operations management services for the seventh-generation ultra-deepwater drillship Deep Value Driller, while also securing a drilling contract with Petronas E&P Bobara in Indonesia. The Petronas contract has an estimated value of approximately $58 million, including... Continue Reading →
Aug. 27(businesstimes.com.sg) Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and offshore and marine player Seatrium are discussing a potential tie-up to explore offshore solutions in natural gas, said Magda Chambriard and Chris Ong, the respective CEOs of Petrobras and Seatrium. They were speaking at a media briefing following the christening ceremony for two floating production storage and offloading... Continue Reading →
Aug. 27 (OE) Singapore's Seatrium is preparing for the sailaway of two floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units for Brazil's Petrobras, with the P-80 and P-82 vessels scheduled to depart within weeks of each other. The two vessels were marked at a christening ceremony at Seatrium's Tuas Boulevard Yard in Singapore and will head... Continue Reading →
Aug. 26 (Reuters) Chinese offshore oil and gas major CNOOC posted a record first-half net profit on Wednesday, as higher oil prices driven by the Iran war and rising production boosted earnings. Net profit attributable to shareholders rose 23.4% to 85.8 billion yuan ($12.9 billion) from 69.5 billion yuan a year earlier, according to a... Continue Reading →
Aug. 13 (Estadao) Seatrium, a marine engineering multinational expanding its global offshore wind operations, sees Brazil as a market ripe for development and hopes to leverage its local infrastructure to manufacture substations and vessels dedicated to the sector. However, the company is making any planning contingent on the maturation of the legal framework. It has... Continue Reading →
July 28 (OE) Seatrium has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore for its 30 MW Floating Data Centre (FDC) concept, marking a milestone in the development of offshore digital infrastructure designed to support growing demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing. The concept features a jetty-moored, non-propelled barge incorporating six... Continue Reading →
