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After its exclusivity deal with Australia’s Karoon Energy came to nought, Enauta, a Brazilian oil and gas player, has revealed that resuming the sale of a partial stake in a field located offshore Brazil is not currently on its agenda. Back in April 2021, Enauta disclosed its strategy to look for new partners for the development of the Atlanta... Continue Reading →
Global energy supermajor ExxonMobil and its partners Hess and CNOOC have made an astonishing number of high-quality oil discoveries in offshore Guyana. In April 2022 Exxon announced that it made three more discoveries in the 6.6-million-acre Stabroek Block, where it is the operator holding a 45% interest with 30% owned by Hess and the remaining 25% held... Continue Reading →
Marine geophysical service provider PXGEO has secured a contract with Petrobras for a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in Brazil. The survey, to be acquired in water depths up to 2,200 metres, is scheduled to commence in late 2022, with a duration of approximately four months. According to the company’s CEO, Duncan Eley, this will be... Continue Reading →
Italian oilfield services firm Saipem has confirmed it has recently been awarded a limited notice to proceed (LNTP) by BW Offshore, for the early-stage engineering services for the supply of an FPSO unit to be supplied to Shell for the development of the Gato do Mato field offshore Brazil. The oil and gas field is... Continue Reading →
Oslo Stock Exchange-listed oil and gas E&P company BW Energy has confirmed it is engaged in discussions with Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras to acquire the latter’s stake in a field located offshore Brazil. Back in January 2020, Petrobras disclosed its intention to sell its entire stake in two sets of deep-water post-salt offshore concessions,... Continue Reading →
(PN) Petrobras launched this week a tender for contracting inspection services in its industrial assets located on land and sea. The tender covers both refining units as well as platform ships currently in operation in the Brazilian pre-salt. The expectation is that the opening of the envelopes with the proposals will take place on the... Continue Reading →
(PN) A new major contract for the Altera&Ocyan portfolio. The company, formed by the union between Ocyan and Altera Infrastructure, signed an agreement with 3R to carry out the maintenance and operation of the P-61 and P-63 platforms in the Papa Terra field, in the south of the Campos Basin (RJ). The contract will last... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 03/18/2020, informs that the divestment process of the maritime concession called Golfinho Cluster, located in deep waters, in the Espírito Santo Basin, is still in the binding phase. The company BW Energy was invited to the negotiation stage, as reported by this company... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras and the Sergipe Government signed today a protocol of intentions to identify business opportunities with the use of natural gas ,considering the development by the company of a new frontier in Sergipe Deep Waters. The objective of the protocol is to express the purpose of prospecting and structuring business opportunities,... Continue Reading →
French energy giant TotalEnergies and its partners have made a final investment decision on an $850 million project offshore Angola as part of their plans to further develop the CLOV complex located in Block 17. Angola’s National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) and TotalEnergies announced the decision for the CLOV Phase 3 development last Friday,... Continue Reading →
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