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A consortium of TGS, CGG and BGP has commenced the acquisition for Phase 1 of the Suriname 3D project. Last month, the seismic trio signed a multi-client agreement with Suriname’s national oil company Staatsolie for multi-client seismic programs. The new seismic data from the consortium’s multi-client programs will be instrumental in accurately delineating the prospectivity and potential of this... Continue Reading →
Oil services group SBM Offshore on Thursday revised its full-year revenue guidance, citing a deferral in the expected timing of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) joint venture. The Dutch company, which supplies floating oil and gas production vessels, now predicts 2021 revenues of "above" $2.3 billion, from around $2.6 billion previously. SBM said... Continue Reading →
Offshore seismic surveyor PXGEO has been awarded an ocean bottom node survey contract in Brazil. PGXEO said that the project, awarded by the Brazilian oil company Petrobras, would start in the second quarter of 2022. The contract will last for around three months. In June 2021, PXGEO acquired Fugro's subsidiary Seabed Geosolutions, a company specializing in... Continue Reading →
The pipeline sector has great potential for expansion with the opening of the natural gas market and greater pre-salt production, in addition to being a transport alternative that allows the movement of large volumes of fuel with lower gas emissions. The president of the IBP, Eberaldo de Almeida Neto, highlighted that Petrobras' divestments in the... Continue Reading →
The ANP published today the names of two more companies qualified for the Second Round of Bidding for Excess Volumes of the Transfer of Rights: Petrobras and Shell Brasil Petróleo SA. Both were approved at a meeting of the Special Tender Commission (CEL). There are ten companies eligible for bidding: Chevron Brasil Óleo e Gás... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) is currently committed to exploring in Africa for hydrocarbons and doing so fits the company's purpose, its exploration manager for deepwater Africa Benjamin Mee said on Wednesday at an industry event. More than 80% of Shell's exploration will be focused on core positions with an emphasis on deepwater and the company... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) ExxonMobil notified the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) of the discovery of traces of oil in the pioneer well 1-EMEB-2-RJS (Titã-1), in the Titan block in the Santos Basin. The milestone was reached approximately three months after the start of drilling at the site, which is being carried out by the West Saturn drillship, chartered... Continue Reading →
Karoon Energy announced that financial close has been reached on the Company’s US$160 million reserve-based, non-recourse, syndicated debt facility. An initial draw down, in accordance with the facility agreement, of US$30 million has been made in preparation for investments in the Baúna intervention campaign and Patola development in Brazil. This marks a significant step in... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro SA – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 10/07/2021, about the divestment project of the Albacora and Albacora Leste fields, in the Campos Basin, informs that its Executive Board concluded the analysis of the proposals received and, yesterday, it approved the start of the negotiation phase with the consortia led by... Continue Reading →
The pre salt Buzios field produced 709,697 Mboe/d (one thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day) in September, with 566,196 Mbbl/d of oil and 22,815 MMm3 of natural gas. As of this month, the field's production began to be assigned to two separate contracts, one for transfer of rights and the other for sharing, arising... Continue Reading →
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