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Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta has stopped production at two of its three wells in the Atlanta field, located in Block BS-4 offshore Brazil. Enauta said on Monday that production from its Atlanta field offshore Brazil was affected by a failure in the pumping system at two wells. According to the information provided by... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that in the first half of July it will begin the first seismic acquisition with Ocean Bottom Nodes (OBN) technology and new multiphysics surveys (magnetometric and gravimetric) of the 3D Nodes project of Parque das Baleias, also known as the Whale Park, in Campos Basin. The contract signed with... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Petrobras will extend the term of the charter contract for the Petrobras 10.000 drillship, operated by Transocean. The two companies closed an agreement for another two years. The information was confirmed by sources from PetroleoHoje. According to an investigation, the value of the drilling unit's charter rate was kept unchanged, at around US$300,000/day. The... Continue Reading →
The floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Carioca MV30 has set sail from the Brasfels shipyard in Angra dos Reis towards Petrobras’ Sépia field in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The vessel will be the largest FPSO-type unit to operate in Brazil, with a daily capacity to process 180,000 barrels of oil (bpd) and 6... Continue Reading →
(OE) ExxonMobil's Jabillo-1 offshore well in Guyana's Canje Block has reached the planned target depth, however, without finding evidence of commercial hydrocarbons, Exxon's partners in the block said Monday. The Jabillo-1, drilled by the Stena Carron drillship will now be plugged and abandoned. The Jabillo-1 well was drilled to test Upper Cretaceous reservoirs in... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) --Oil majors are gearing up to explore off the coast of Colombia, offering hope to a country struggling to reverse declines in reserves and output of its biggest export. Royal Dutch Shell Plc is planning to drill this year in the Caribbean, while Exxon Mobil Corp., Repsol SA and state-controlled Ecopetrol SA will follow... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) Sembcorp Marine, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA), won an Addendum to the Tupi BV Contract valued at approximately US$ 175 million for modification works to be completed on FPSO P-71. Originally designed for the Tupi field, the FPSO P-71 will undergo modifications and integration for deployment in the Itapu field. The... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) The contracting of the P-80, FPSO that will make up the 9th unit in Buzios, should only take place in 2022. Less than two months after releasing the bid notice for the acquisition of the new unit in the cluster field under the EPC regime, Petrobras has postponed the delivery date of the proposals... Continue Reading →
NDT inspections specialist TSC Subsea has opened a new base in Rio de Janeiro as part of its plans to expand across Brazil and further into Latin America. TSC Subsea had so far supported Brazil remotely but decided to open a permanent base in response to increased operations. The company, which has bases in the UK... Continue Reading →
Τhe FPSO market is booming this year, with more contracts awarded in the second quarter of 2021 than during the full year 2020. Rystad Energy expects FPSO awards to reach a total of 10 units in 2021, with another 10 following next year, creating a very healthy project line-up for contractors, effectively doubling their pipeline.... Continue Reading →
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