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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi met Friday to discuss the progress of Eni's activities in the country, following the giant offshore oil discovery of Baleine 1-X. As previously reported, Eni in September announced the major oil discovery in block CI-101, in what was the company's first exploration well drilled in the... Continue Reading →
The ANP will carry out on October 7th, from 9 am, the 17th Round of Bidding Blocks for exploration and production of oil and natural gas. 92 blocks will be offered, located in 11 sectors with high potential and new frontiers in four Brazilian offshore sedimentary basins: Campos, Pelotas, Potiguar and Santos. Due to the... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Petrobras chartered the PLSV Sapura Topázio, from Seabras Sapura, for a period of 1,275 days (about three and a half years) on a day rate basis, with a minimum execution period of 1,095 days. The contract is expected to start on June 30, 2022, and is expected to end on June 29, 2025. The... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in relation to news published in the media about the project to divest the Albacora and Albacora Leste fields, in the Campos Basin, clarifies that it has received binding offers from the consortia PetroRio/Cobra and EIG Global Energies Partners/Enauta/3R Petroleum for the acquisition of the fields. Such offers could exceed... Continue Reading →
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold an oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico on November 17, complying with a U.S. District Court order. To remind, the Biden administration had paused all oil and gas leasing activities on federal lands and waters in January, citing climate crisis. A federal judge... Continue Reading →
(ANP) In August, the Búzios, Atapu and Sul de Tupi fields, all producing under the transfer of rights regime in the Santos Basin pre-salt, were among the largest national producers. Búzios, with 669.3 thousand boe/d (barrels of oil equivalent per day) was in second place, behind only the Tupi field, which produced 1.2 million boe/d.... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies' Keskesi South-1 appraisal well in the Block 58 offshore Suriname has encountered non-commercial quantities of hydrocarbons and the well has been plugged and abandoned. The news was shared on Wednesday by APA Corporation, TotalEnergies' 50 percent partner in the offshore block. The well was drilled around 6.2 kilometers from the discovery well Keskesi East-1... Continue Reading →
The Brazilian Institute for the Environment (IBAMA) this week granted a license that authorizes the carrying out of 4D seismic surveys in the Roncador and Albacora Leste fields, in the Campos Basin. The document will be valid for one year and eight months. The seismic study may rely on one of the following vessels: MV... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up the release disclosed on 08/24/2021, informs that the partner CNOOC Petroleum Brasil Ltda. (CNOOC) expressed interest in exercising the option to purchase an additional share of 5% in the Production Sharing Contract of the Transfer of Rights Surplus, for the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt area.... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil firm Enauta has said production from the Manati offshore field in Brazil was stopped preventively on Monday due to small gas leakage in the inland pipeline between the compression station and the gas treatment station. "The operator is assessing the causes of this incident, resumption still will be estimated. The Company will keep... Continue Reading →
