(OE) Malaysian FPSO leasing firm Yinson Production has acquired the Atlanta FPSO, a floating, production, storage, and offloading vessel that will serve as a production unit at Enauta's Atlanta field in Brazil. Yinson acquired the FPSO through the acquisition of AFPS B.V., the platform owner company. Back in February 2022, Brazilian oil firm Enauta bought... Continue Reading →
Rystad: Offshore Sector Dominates Oil & Gas Exploration Spending, But Results Disappointing in 2023
(OE) Spending on conventional oil and gas exploration is on the rise and is set to top $50 billion this year, led by offshore investments, however, discovery volumes are falling to new lows, despite the rising investments. This is according to Rystad Energy, a Norway-based energy industry intelligence group. Rystad's estimates show that in the... Continue Reading →
Brazil oil and natural gas production hits new record in June
ANP announced that oil production hit a new record in June. The agency released today the Monthly Oil and Gas Production Bulletin for the month of June, bringing consolidated data on national production. During the period, a total of 4.324 million barrels of oil equivalent per day were produced, of which 3.367 million barrels per... Continue Reading →
Valaris to Reactivate Drillship for $364M West Africa Contract
Offshore drilling firm Valaris said Monday it had secured a 12-well contract offshore West Africa for drillship VALARIS DS-7. Valaris will reactivate the drillship for this contract. The contract, with an undisclosed client, is expected to start in the second quarter of 2024 and has an estimated duration of 850 days. The total contract value... Continue Reading →
Petrobras lifts presalt production offshore Brazil
Petrobras achieved a new presalt production from its fields offshore Brazil of 2.06 MMboe/d during second-quarter 2023, representing 78% of the company’s total output. The previous high of 2.05 MMboe/d was registered in the first quarter. However, the company’s production in the Brazilian post-salt was 9.7% lower than for the previous quarter, at 346,000 bbl/d,... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC breaks subsea order records, expects to reach $9 billion in 2023
(OET) TechnipFMC has received $4.1 billion in subsea inbound orders in the second quarter of 2023, a 62.2% increase compared to Q1 2023 and a 113.4% increase compared to the same period in 2022. Records were set for the company’s iEPCI full-field subsea development and integrated project execution and Subsea 2.0 subsea production system. TechnipFMC’s total... Continue Reading →
Petrobras highlights on production and sales in 2Q23
In 2Q23, average production of oil, NGL and natural gas reached 2.64 MMboed, 1.5% lower compared to 1Q23, mainly due to higher volume of losses from stoppages and maintenance, the natural decline of mature fields and divestments. Those effects were partially offset by the ramp-up of P-71, in Itapu field, and the startup of FPSOs... Continue Reading →
Oil producer Hess beats profit estimates as production jumps
(Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Hess Corp (HES.N) on Wednesday beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit, buoyed by higher production and disclosed a new oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. Crude prices have slipped from the multi-year highs hit last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine but remain strong enough to encourage oil and... Continue Reading →
Petrobras registers record 5 year production in the Buzios field
The Búzios field, the largest in the world in ultra-deep waters, reached, in June, the accumulated production of 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe), after just five years since the asset started operations. This result is due to the high productivity per well in Búzios, the evolution of knowledge accumulated in the pre-salt fields... Continue Reading →
Vallourec Secures Two Major Orders to Supply Line Pipes for Brazil’s Mega Oil Field
(OE) French steel pipemaker Vallourec said Monday it had won two major orders to supply line pipes for phases 6 and 8 of the Buzios oil field development operated by Petrobras. These orders are in addition to the contract previously won for phase 7, representing a total of 48,000 tons of line pipe. Located off... Continue Reading →