A new and very important contract for OneSubsea. The company announced that it signed an agreement that contemplates the installation of 12 underwater Christmas trees in fields that are operated by Petrobras. The contract is valued at between $100 million and $150 million. In addition, OneSubsea is very close to signing another major contract with... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Taps Shearwater for Large OBN Survey Offshore Brazil
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS said Monday it had won a contract in Brazil for a large deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) survey. The company will conduct the survey over the Petrobras-operated Grand Iara Project, involving the Berbigão, Sururu, and Shared Reservoir of Atapu, in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The project is scheduled to start... Continue Reading →
Lula and Bolsonaro in the second presidential round, their proposals for the energy sector
(PN) The decision on who will run the country for the next four years will be decided on the 30th. With 99.90% of the votes counted, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) has 48.41% of the valid votes, against 43.22% of his opponent, the incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro. The counting of votes showed... Continue Reading →
PXGeo 3D Seismic contracted for the Itapu area
Petrobras to start the 3D Nodes Marine Seismic Survey Activity in the Itapu field, located in the Santos Basin. The works will be carried out approximately 174 kilometers from the coast, in a water depth of 1,600 meters. The acquisition of seismic data will be conducted by the company PXGeo do Brasil. Itapu is a... Continue Reading →
Baker Hughes Lands Work on World’s First Deepwater FLNG Unit
Oilfield services firm Baker Hughes said Friday it had secured a new service contract for maintenance and monitoring of turbomachinery equipment operations at Coral Sul FLNG, the first deepwater floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) unit operating off the coast of Mozambique on the Eni-led Coral South project. The contract also includes a provision of resident... Continue Reading →
Booming Brazilian E&P buoys Rio Oil & Gas show but market still waits on Petrobras rig contract awards.
(OM) News from Rio Oil & Gas 2022 is upbeat about the prospects for offshore E&P, according to Evercore ISI’s most recent Offshore Oracle report, with many international operators offering updates on their upcoming projects slated offshore Brazil. Added to that was Exxon Mobil’s announcement that $13 trillion in new oil and gas investments will be... Continue Reading →
Brazil: Shell Books Maersk Drilling Semi-sub
(OED) Danish offshore drilling firm Maersk Drilling has secured a contract with Shell Brasil for the semi-submersible rig Mærsk Developer in the Campos basin offshore Brazil. The offshore drilling rig will drill one exploration well and perform subsea well interventions at the BC-10 field. The contract is expected to start in March 2023, in direct... Continue Reading →
MODEC FPSO Almirante Barroso arrives in Brazil
Scheduled to form part of Petrobras' 5th production module in the Búzios field, the Modec unit will be submitted to Brazilian authorities' clearance procedures. Afterwards, it will go to the Brasfels shipyard, in Angra dos Reis (RJ), where it will undergo the final commissioning activities. The first oil from the FPSO Almirante Barroso is expected... Continue Reading →
Yinson FPSO for Petrobras’ revitalization project reaches Brazilian waters
After making a few stops on the way, a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, destined for Petrobras’ revitalisation project, has arrived in Brazil. Letters of Intent for this FPSO project were awarded to Malaysia’s Yinson in October 2019 by Petrobras. Several months later, the two players entered into definitive contracts and in April 2020, Sumitomo... Continue Reading →
Shell SURF bids for Gato do Mato project edges toward sanction
(U) Shell expects to decide on sanctioning Gato do Mato, its biggest new Brazilian offshore project, within the next three months – after re-evaluating its viability in the light of supply constraints and rising costs in recent months. The UK-based supermajor has been working on contracting arrangements for a project that will feature a floating... Continue Reading →