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TechnipFMC's expectations with the Brazilian market are high. The company recently released its 2020 financial results and also presented its outlook for this year. According to the company, Brazil will be the country with the highest number of new subsea project orders in 2021. The company has mapped eight opportunities for new contracts in the... Continue Reading →
Asian shipyards are making progress on the construction of future Petrobras FPSOs that will start operating on the Brazilian coast between 2021 and 2024. In recent months, many of them have made considerable progress in their works. The next unit in Búzios, the FPSO Almirante Barroso is now almost 60% finished. The platform ship should... Continue Reading →
Petrobras intends to go to the market this year to contract the FPSO for the deep water project in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin (SEAP). The information was revealed this morning by the company's production development director, Rudimar Lorenzatto, during a conference call with analysts and investors. The executive also confirmed that the SEAP conceptual project was... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras has signed a letter of intent with SBM Offshore for the chartering and provision of services for the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré, to be installed in the Búzios field, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt area off Brazil. Petrobras said on Wednesday that the FPSO will be the sixth unit... Continue Reading →
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO Dear Shareholders,I am very happy to present the report on Petrobras financial performance in 2020, a superb performance in a very challenging environment. Amidst a severe global recession and the effects of a major global shock to the oil industry, we promised to engineer a J-shaped recovery. The goal was to... Continue Reading →
In the midst of the process of change in its high command, Petrobras launched this week a new tender that promises to move the market. The state-owned company published a public notice to contract up to five offshore drilling rigs. The opening of the envelopes with the bidders' proposals is scheduled for March 15th. The... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras received only one proposal, from Holland’s SBM Offshore, in a bid to contract construction of the Mero 4 oil platform in the Santos Basin pre-salt, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Petrobras’ business plan foresees Mero 4 entering operation in 2025 with a capacity to... Continue Reading →
SBM, after successive postponements, was apparently the only company to bid on Petrobras' tender for the chartering of the FPSO Mero 4, which will be installed in the production sharing field of the same name, in the Santos Basin. Modec did not offer and Misc Berhard, which analyzed the project but did not submit. (Reuters)... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta, formerly known as QGEP, has resumed production from its Atlanta field, located off Brazil, after a nearly month-long shutdown due to repairs. The Atlanta field Early Production System started production in May 2018, almost two years behind the schedule. The EPS is comprised of three productions wells connected to the FPSO... Continue Reading →
Oil major ExxonMobil has experienced technical issues with a gas compressor on the SBM Offshore-owned FPSO Liza Destiny, working for ExxonMobil offshore Guyana. Experts are now working to define the scope of repairs and fix the issue. ExxonMobil said at the end of January 2021 that there was a technical issue regarding a seal on... Continue Reading →
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