Prosafe has provided a status report on its fleet of accommodation support rigs in its latest results review. Late last year Safe Zephyrus completed its contract with bp at ETAP in the central UK North Sea and is presently heading west from the Canary Islands to Brazil to start a program for Petrobras on May 1. Earlier this month, Safe... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on the request to suspend sales of assets for 90 days
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it received Official Letter 166/2023/GM-MME from the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) yesterday requesting the suspension of the sales of assets for 90 (ninety) days, due to the reassessment of the National Energy Policy currently underway and the establishment of a new composition of the National Energy... Continue Reading →
3R Petroleum temporary interruption of production at Papa Terra
3R PETROLEUM ÓLEO E GÁS S.A. (“3R” or “Company”) (B3: RRRP3), in compliance with the provisions of CVM Resolution No. 44, informs its investors and the market in general that the production at Papa Terra Cluster has been temporarily interrupted, as of 25 February 2023, due to limitations in the energy generation and supply system... Continue Reading →
Glencore sentenced to pay $700 million in US after bribery guilty plea
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered Glencore Plc (GLEN.L) to pay $700 million in connection with its guilty plea over a decade-long scheme to bribe foreign officials across several countries. The sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield in Manhattan federal court consisted of a $428.5 million fine and $272 million in forfeiture,... Continue Reading →
A Siemens Energy Survey sees Latin America lacking in the energy transition but with a positive outlook
Latin America is the region with the lowest level of readiness for the energy transition on the planet. The finding is from a new study recently published by Siemens Energy. According to the survey, countries in the region have a considerable expansion of renewable energy, but technologies such as power-to-X (synthetic fuels and green derivatives)... Continue Reading →
Brazilian Enauta FPSO goes back online
Brazilian oil and gas player Enauta has completed the preventive maintenance activities for a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is carrying out operations on a field offshore Brazil. Enauta disclosed on Monday, 27 February 2023, that the preventive maintenance of the water-cooling system of the FPSO Petrojarl I was concluded and the production at... Continue Reading →
Petrobras sets an annual record in CO2 capture, use and storage with 10.6 million tons registered in 2022
Petrobras set a record in CO2 capture, use and geological storage (the so-called Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage - CCUS) in 2022, reaching the mark of 10.6 million reinjected tons (equivalent to 5.8 billion m³ of CO2 ). For comparison purposes, this portion corresponds to 27% by volume of the total gas reinjected in our... Continue Reading →
After going public, Seacrest wants to triple oil and gas production in Espírito Santo
(epbr) Seacrest Petróleo, an independent oil company focused on mature fields in Brazil, raised US$ 260 million with the IPO, on the Oslo Stock Exchange, in Norway. With cash strengthened by the share offering, the company plans to triple its oil and gas production in the Espírito Santo Basin by 2025. In recent years, the... Continue Reading →
Two SBM Offshore’s FPSOs slated for first oil in 2023 – Long read
Dutch FPSO operator SBM Offshore is working on several floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) projects and two of these vessels are expected to achieve the first oil this year. While disclosing its record full-year 2022 directional underlying EBITDA of $1 billion, the revenue of $3.29 billion and the year-end backlog of $30.5 billion, SBM... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7’s Seven Cruzeiro Vessel to Continue Operating Offshore Brazil until November 2023
Offshore installation services company Subsea 7 said Friday it had won a "sizable" vessel contract with the Brazilian oil company Petrobras. The contract is for the 145.9m pipelay support vessel (PLSV) Seven Cruzeiro off the coast of Brazil. It extends the vessel's current contract from February to November 2023. For Subsea 7, a "sizeable contract"... Continue Reading →