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Sept 3, 2020 Petrobras in talks with companies that presented lower prices in the bidding. Solstad Offshore presented the lowest price in a bid by Petrobras to hire a vessel to support the operations of underwater robots (RSV). The company offered a daily fee of US $ 53,884.72 with Far Saga, surpassing the proposal presented... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 The Lula field, in the pre-salt of the Santos basin, achieved a feat that is not yet properly recognized internationally: it is today the seventh field with the largest oil production in the world, surpassing emblematic assets in the onshore and offshore of countries like Russia, United States and Iraq. With a... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 ExxonMobil signed a contract with C-Innovation, a company of the Edison Chouest Offshore group, for the chartering of an ROV capable of operating in water depths of up to 4 thousand m. The deal is aimed at the exploratory campaign that will be carried out in Brazil, in early 2021, with the... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 Total started a new environmental licensing process for drilling seven exploratory wells in the area of blocks FZA-M-57, FZA-M-86, FZAM-88, FZA-M-125 and FZA-M-127, in the Basin of Foz do Amazonas. The company was forced to restart the licensing of the projects after the environmental agency dismissed, in April last year, the reconsideration... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 The Minister of Mines and Energy, Bento Albuquerque, said on Wednesday (2) that Brazil will be able to dispose of the total production planned for pre-salt gas for the next six years, with the forecast for the start-up of the Route 3 at the beginning of 2021. The Petrobras project is the... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 Today Petrobras starts receiving proposals from companies interested in providing support with contract management and inspection services for the Buzios 5 Project. What is being put on the table is a kind of "mother contract" or "backbone", as they say in the market, encompassing all the administrative and technical support of the... Continue Reading →
Shell is already considering the possibility of developing offshore wind farm projects in Brazil, said the company's president in the country, André Araújo, during a webinar held by the British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil (Britcham) on September 1st. The executive explained that the company may apply technologies that are being studied abroad... Continue Reading →
Sept 2, 2020 Note: The name of Lula field will be changed due to a court decision. In July, the Lula field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, was the largest producer of oil and natural gas, registering 988 Mbbl / d of oil and 43.2 MMm3 / d of natural gas, totaling accumulated production (... Continue Reading →
3R Petroleum registered with the CVM the IPO request for shares on the Brazilian stock exchange. The objective is to raise funds for new acquisitions of oil fields in Brazil and to sustain investments in the revitalization of assets. Starboard, with a stake in the private equity fund Apollo, holds 52.3% of the capital of... Continue Reading →
Offshore helicopter operator Bristow Group will rename its Aeróleo division in Brazil to Bristow and remain focused on its support of the oil and gas industry and other vertical lift solutions. Aeróleo was an Era Group company and Bristow merged with Era, creating a new helicopter giant, back in June 2020. Continue reading
