Transocean Scores $518M Contract for Ultra-Deepwater Drillship in Gulf of Mexico

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured a 1,080-day contract for one of its high-specification seventh-generation, ultra-deepwater drillships in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Mexico. The contract will contribute approximately $518 million in backlog, excluding revenue for mobilization and demobilization, and is expected to start between the fourth quarter of 2025 and the second quarter of 2026.  Under... Continue Reading →

PRIO on ODP5 Well start of production

PRIO S.A. (“Company” or “PRIO”) (B3: PRIO3), informs its shareholders and the market in general of the start of production of the ODP5 (“F23P3”) well, in the Frade Field (“Field” or “Frade”), with stabilized initial production of approximately 8,000 barrels of oil per day. Thus, PRIO has exceeded the milestone of 100,000 barrels per day... Continue Reading →

Bacalhau FPSO leaves Chinese shipyard after 32 months

Norwegian state-owned oil and gas giant Equinor has disclosed video footage, showing a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which will work on its field offshore Brazil, leaving a Chinese shipyard, following 32 months of work. Equinor’s video shows the FPSO Bacalhau hull leaving the Dalian Shipbuilding (DSIC) shipyard in China. This comes over a month after... Continue Reading →

Karoon’s revised resource assessment at oil discovery off Brazil seen as ‘good step forward’

Australia’s oil and gas company Karoon Energy has updated its contingent resource estimates for a  field offshore Brazil. This is expected to facilitate the technical and commercial feasibility studies for a potential development, which are currently underway. Karoon added the Neon oil discovery option in May 2022 to the rig it hired in April 2021. Following the Patola completion activities, the Maersk Developer rig,... Continue Reading →

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