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(PetroleoHoje) Yinson has a great chance of winning the FPSO charter contract for the Parque das Baleias Integrated System, in case Petrobras chooses to proceed with the bidding. The group presented a daily fee of US $ 647,746, which is higher than the offer in the original bid, but still below the price projected by... Continue Reading →
(TNPetroleo) Equinor Brasil Energia signed a contract for drilling in the Bacalhau field with Seadrill Management, subject to the final investment decision. The duration of the contract is four years, with start-up scheduled for the first quarter of 2022. The goal is to drill six wells until production begins in 2024. The contract also includes... Continue Reading →
Following a significant contract win in Brazil, United Offshore Support GmbH (UOS) announced the expansion of its Americas business into Mexico. The Germany-based company recently secured a contract with ENI Mexico, part of Eni S.p.A, to provide drilling support for the Valaris 8505 semisubmersible rig. The 2010-built UT786CD design anchor handler G.H. Atlantis will perform... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Petrobras received only one offer in the bidding for the chartering of the FPSO for the Integrated System of Parque das Baleias, a project located in the Campos Basin. Only Yinson presented an offer for the bid, held Wednesday. Although the commercial proposal has not yet been opened by Petrobras, it is taken for... Continue Reading →
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp renewed Oil Mining Lease 118 [Bonga] with the local subsidiaries of Shell, Total, Exxon, and Eni for another 20 years, the West African country’s state oil firm said in a statement on Tuesday. The deal signals the end of “long-standing disputes over the interpretation of the fiscal terms of the... Continue Reading →
Australia’s Karoon Energy has received a dispute notice from a partner in its operated Block Z-38, offshore Peru, due to an alleged breach of obligations related to the drilling of a second exploration well on the block. Karoon’s wholly-owned subsidiary, KEI (Peru Z‐38) Sucursal del Peru, owns a 40 per cent operating equity interest in... Continue Reading →
Consulting organisation Crondall Energy has been awarded a technical consultant role on the SBM Offshore-owned Liza Unity FPSO destined for ExxonMobil’s project off Guyana. Crondall said on Tuesday it would be supporting MUFG Bank Ltd (MUFG) as lenders’ technical consultant for the Liza Unity FPSO project financing. MUFG is acting as a technical bank on... Continue Reading →
The exploratory activity in the Campos Basin gained new impetus. Petrobras started drilling the well 1-BRSA-1380D-RJS, in a water depth of 2,849 meters, in block C-M-346. The area was purchased in 2018, in the 14th Bidding Round. As a reminder, this block was the star of that bid for having received the highest bid in... Continue Reading →
(epbr) Production at Pão de Açúcar, discovered at BM-C-33, pre-salt in the Campos Basin and operated by Equinor Brasil (35%), will have an unprecedented natural gas treatment system installed on the topside of the production platform itself. It was the solution found to deal with the great potential for natural gas production associated with the... Continue Reading →
Omni Táxi Aéreo, a leader in the Offshore transport segment, continues to support Petrobras' logistics operations and has just signed another 12 contracts with the company for the offshore transport of passengers and small cargo. The contracts were the subject of a bidding process carried out in September 2020 to update the existing fleet. Operations... Continue Reading →
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