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Subsea 7 has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dutch hydrogen technology developer, OneSea Energy, to collaborate in the field of floating offshore green hydrogen production. The Memorandum of Understanding provides that OneSea and Subsea 7 will move forward together in exploring and developing field-specific solutions for offshore hydrogen production. Both companies will... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has approved the sale of two assets, located in the Espírito Santo Basin offshore Brazil, to BW Energy, an Oslo Stock Exchange-listed oil and gas E&P company. Earlier this month, Petrobras announced that the divestment process of the maritime concession called Golfinho cluster was still in the binding phase, adding that BW Energy was... Continue Reading →
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 →
(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 →
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 →
(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 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 →
(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 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 →
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 →
