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(Reuters) - Portuguese oil & gas company Galp Energia (GALP.LS) finds Brazil an attractive country to pursue its bet on solar and wind energy, its CEO Andy Brown said on Monday, adding the company is looking for investment opportunities there. Galp had agreed in October to acquire and develop two solar projects in Brazil with a combined... Continue Reading →
(OM) TGS says it can now provide access to derivative standardized well data from ~6,500 wells in Brazil’s offshore basins. TGS-enhanced data such as standardized digital logs (LAS, LAS+, Mud LAS, Lith LAS), validated well headers, quality-controlled directional surveys and other available derivatives will be licensed and delivered to customers through its cloud-based R360 Platform. This data... Continue Reading →
Amid the improving market conditions and increasing demand, the Norwegian offshore vessel owner, Solstad Offshore, has inked a new deal for one of its subsea construction support vessels (CSVs) with the Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras, which will allow the vessel to operate offshore Brazil. Solstad Offshore announced the contract award for the CSV Normand Valiant with... Continue Reading →
(OE) FPSO leasing company BW Offshore has decided to record an impairment to the book value of the FPSOs BW Athena, Espoir Ivoirien, Sendje Berge, Petróleo Nautipa and Umuroa amounting to $66.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2021 as well as $23.8 million for the loss on the sale of the Joko Tole FPSO.... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) has bet billions of dollars on offshore drilling in Brazil, an area it once abandoned and now sees as key to its future. But five years into its comeback, the U.S. oil giant has yet to make a major oil discovery as an operator in Brazil's waters and has let opportunities... Continue Reading →
(PN) The board of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) approved the postponement for five years of the declaration of commerciality of the Jupiter discovery, in block BM-S-24, in the Santos Basin. This is the second time the deadline is extended – the first time was in 2016. The new deadline will be November 2026. The... Continue Reading →
Brazilian shipping company Grupo CBO has added a new platform supply vessel (PSV) to its fleet and signed its second contract for one of its anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels with the Brazilian subsidiary of Australia’s Karoon Energy. Brazil’s offshore vessel operator CBO informed on Thursday that it has completed the acquisition of the PSV CBO... Continue Reading →
(PN) The entry into operation of the first definitive system in the Mero field, in the Santos Basin, will help to jumpstart the global production of French company TotalEnergies. The European oil company announced in its report of the financial and operating results for 2021, that it expects a 2% growth in its hydrocarbon production,... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it was the winner of the "Deals of the Year" award, promoted by the North American magazine Latin Finance, in the category that highlights the best corporate debt management operation (Corporate Liability Management of the Year), in the year 2021. This is the fourth time, in the last... Continue Reading →
SBM Offshore has issued a progress report on various FPSO construction programs in its latest results statement. The third stage flash gas compressor on the Liza Destiny, which operates on the Liza field offshore Guyana, remains stable and continues to operate. Engineering is in progress on a re-designed flash gas compressor, which should be installed around mid-year.... Continue Reading →
