Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has revealed that one of its drillships has set off towards Angola to embark on its new assignment with an affiliate of the U.S. energy giant, ExxonMobil. Back in October 2021, Valaris won a two-year deal for the drillship VALARIS DS-9 with Esso Exploration Angola, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, for operations offshore Angola. At... Continue Reading →
Petrobras drills well in deepwater Espirito Santo Basin
(PN) In the midst of a turbulent week due to the change in its presidency and the rise in fuel prices, Petrobras made a new advance in its exploratory program in the Espírito Santo Basin. The company started drilling the 1-BRSA-1385-ESS well, in the ES-M-596 block, in a water depth of 2,117 meters. As already... Continue Reading →
APA-Total JV Finds Oil In Krabdagu Well Off Suriname
Houston-based APA Corporation on Tuesday announced its joint venture with France's TotalEnergies has made an oil discovery at the Krabdagu exploration well off the coast of Suriname. APA has a 50% working interest in Block 58 where the oil discovery was made, with TotalEnergies the operator and the holder of the remaining stake. Flow test... Continue Reading →
Eni’s Giant Oil Find Offshore Ivory Coast Wins Discovery of the Year Award
(OED) Italian oil and gas firm Eni's giant oil find offshore Ivory Coast last year won the 'discovery of the year' award, and Eni also secured the title of the upstream industry’s most-admired explorer, an accolade awarded as part of Wood Mackenzie’s annual Exploration Survey. Eni's exploration director Luca Bertelli won the Lifetime Achievement Award, too.... Continue Reading →
DOF Subsea has secured the extension of four contracts with Petrobras.
DOF Subsea has secured the extension of four PIDF contracts with Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras. The extensions will demand a fleet of at least three vessels operating for 18 months in direct continuation to the original schedule, performing flexible pipelines, risers and subsea equipment inspection in the Campos Basin, Santos Basin, Marlin Field... Continue Reading →
CGX Frontera JV direct exploration work at Corentyne offshore Guyana
(OM) Following constructive discussions with the government of Guyana, joint venture (JV) partners CGX Energy Inc. and Frontera Energy Corp. will focus exclusively on the exploration opportunities in the Corentyne Block offshore Guyana. The decision follows the discovery at the Kawa-1 exploration well on the Corentyne Block. CGX will continue to integrate its findings from the Kawa-1 well into... Continue Reading →
Havfram to back MODEC on Senegal’s first offshore oil development
Havfram has secured a contract by MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) for the pre-installation of the subsea mooring system for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel destined for Senegal. MODEC will supply the facility to Woodside as part of the Sangomar Field Development Phase 1 project, Senegal’s first offshore oil development. Under the... Continue Reading →
Shell’s floater rig of the year award goes to Maersk drillship
Danish offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has revealed that one of its drillships has been named floater rig of the year by Shell, a UK-headquartered energy giant, thanks to a drilling campaign in Brunei. In a statement on Friday, Maersk Drilling announced that Shell has named Maersk Viking its 2021 Global Rig of the Year in the Floater... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies places subsea order with TechnipFMC off Angola
TechnipFMC has won a contract with TotalEnergies EP Angola to supply subsea production systems for the CLOV Phase 3 development in Block 17 off the coast of Angola. The delivery will include Subsea 2.0 trees and associated controls, umbilical termination assemblies, jumpers and services. The contract is the first under the new framework agreement that... Continue Reading →
Deepwater Drilling: Venus puts Southern Africa in the Spotlight
(OE) Shell's and TotalEnergies' Graff and Venus deepwater discoveries off Namibia have put southern Africa under the exploration spotlight. With deepwater offering high productivity reserves, it's a spotlight that's likely to linger for a few years yet, despite continued offshore upstream capital discipline. With talk of TotalEnergies' offshore Namibia Venus discovery potentially containing more than... Continue Reading →
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