(Reuters) - Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA) has abandoned a plan to sell its 44% stake in a promising offshore gas project it shares with Colombia's Ecopetrol (ECO.CN) in the Andean country, a Petrobras executive said at a Houston energy conference on Monday. Petrobras and Ecopetrol last year announced a natural gas discovery at the Uchuva-1 deepwater well... Continue Reading →
SBM Offshore signed a 10-year Operations and Maintenance Enabling Agreement for its Guyana FPSO fleet with ExxonMobil Guyana
SBM Offshore is pleased to announce it has signed a 10-year Operations and Maintenance Enabling Agreement with Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Ltd (aka “ExxonMobil Guyana”) for the Operations and Maintenance of FPSOs Liza Destiny, Liza Unity, Prosperity and ONE GUYANA. This framework agreement establishes the new terms related to the operations of the Guyana... Continue Reading →
MODEC raising finance for expanding FPSO sector
MODEC plans to raise funds to support future FPSO activities by issuing new shares to MITSUI and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), and forming a business alliance with MOL. The company has special-purpose entities providing lease, operation and charters of floating production systems. Projects have been growing in scope and funds required for charter arrangements are... Continue Reading →
Foz do Amazonas: understand what is at stake in the new oil exploration frontier
(epbr) The equatorial margin, the region where the promising Foz do Amazonas Basin is located, has already been called the "new pre-salt layer" by the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira (PSD), and is an important part of Petrobras' exploratory strategy in the coming years. years. But, due to lack of environmental licensing, no... Continue Reading →
Brazil agency recommends barring Petrobras from drilling in Amazon’s mouth
Reuters) - Brazilian environmental agency Ibama has recommended the rejection of state-run oil firm Petrobras' (PETR4.SA) request to drill a well in the mouth of the Amazon River Basin, documents seen by Reuters showed on Friday. Signed last week by several environmental analysts from Ibama, the report also recommended the agency stop processing environmental licenses for the... Continue Reading →
Exxon delivers record first-quarter profit on higher output
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) on Friday reported a record first-quarter profit that was more than double a year ago and topped Wall Street estimates as rising oil and gas output overcame a pullback in energy prices from high levels. Oil companies are riding a wave of strong demand and cost-cutting tied to efforts to counter... Continue Reading →
ABB Provide Electrical System Automation for Petrobras’ P-82 FPSO
(OE) Singapore's Sembcorp Marine has ordered from ABB the complete electrical system automation for the P-82 FPSO Sembcorp Marine is building for the Brazilian oil company Petrobras. The P-82 FPSO, ordered by Petrobras in October 2022, will be one of the largest vessels to be deployed in the Búzios field, an ultra-deepwater oil and gas field... Continue Reading →
FPSO Anita Garibaldi sails towards the Marlim field in the Campos Basin
Petrobras started to move the FPSO Anita Garibaldi to the Marlim field, in the Campos Basin. The unit was moored at Estaleiro Jurong, in Aracruz (ES), where it underwent final tests and commissioning stages. The platform vessel should start operating at the beginning of the second semester. The unit has the capacity to produce up... Continue Reading →
Challenger Energy Identifies ‘1-2 billion barrel’ Prospects in Uruguay Offshore Block.
Challenger Energy said Wednesday that it had identified three sizeable prospects in its AREA Off-1 offshore block in Uruguay of between 1 to 2 billion barrels and that the company said it would launch a farm-out process "following unsolicited interest from a number of industry counterparties." The company said that an initial prospect inventory of... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil Strikes Oil Again in Guyana’s Stabroek Block
ExxonMobil has made yet another oil discovery in Guyana's prolific Stabroek offshore block. The news of the new offshore oil discovery in Guyana was shared by Hess Corp., ExxonMobil's partner in the block, where around 11 billion barrels of oil have been discovered in recent years. According to Hess, a partner alongside China's CNOOC in... Continue Reading →