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Engineering and maintenance services specialist Sparrows Group has secured one contract renewal and two extensions, worth a seven-figure sum, in Angola to support major operators in the deepwater region. According to Saprrows’ statement on Wednesday, the first award is a three-year renewal to continue with the planned and corrective maintenance of all lifting equipment used... Continue Reading →
Singapore’s Keppel shipyard has reached a major milestone in the construction of the SBM Offshore-owned Liza Unity FPSO with the completion of the topsides lifting campaign. The China-built Fast4Ward FPSO hull arrived in Singapore in January 2020. In November 2020, Keppel started the topside integration phase on the FPSO. SBM Offshore reported on Tuesday that the topsides lifting campaign... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) -- Petroleos Mexicanos discovered what’s expected to be a billion-barrel oil field in Tabasco as it aims to reverse a decade and a half of sinking production. The new field at the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico, when combined with nearby deposits, is similar in size to other billion-barrel discoveries, Pemex Chief... Continue Reading →
The government of Guyana has granted an extension to the term of the Tullow Oil-operated Orinduik offshore block that will see the block partners maintain control of the block until 2023. According to Eco Atlantic, Tullow Oil's partner in the offshore block, the joint venture partners in respect of the Orinduik Block offshore Guyana have... Continue Reading →
Guyana, a country that has become a deepwater oil and gas exploration hotspot mostly due to a string of discoveries made by ExxonMobil in recent years, is set for a record year when it comes to the number of offshore wells expected to be drilled in 2021, Rystad Energy said in a report Friday. Rystad... Continue Reading →
The encouraging projections for the Brazilian subsea market in 2021 are starting to materialize. Petrobras launched a tender for contracting the production collection system and anchoring services of the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré, the sixth production unit in the Buzios field, earlier this week. The bidding will last until June 7, when the state company will... Continue Reading →
Petrobras' exploratory campaign in the Campos Basin has new developments. This time, the state-owned company started drilling another well (1-BRSA-1378-RJS) in the region, inside block C-M-709, in a water depth of 2,840 meters. The information was made available by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP). Block C-M-709 is operated by Petrobras (40%), in partnership with ExxonMobil... Continue Reading →
Fugro is carrying out seep survey and geochemical campaign for Petronas in Block 48, offshore Suriname. Petronas hired the Dutch-based surveyor in order to optimise future exploration activities in this frontier area. The work, conducted from the survey vessel MV Fugro Brasilis, involves geophysical data collection; heat flow measurements; core sampling as well as onboard geochemical... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas companies Apache and Total have been forced to stop drilling operations at an offshore well in Suriname due to "substantial pressure increases." As announced on January 14, the Keskesi East-1 well discovered oil, volatile oil, and condensate in the Upper Cretaceous-aged Campanian and Santonian intervals and, subsequently, continued drilling toward deeper Neocomian-aged... Continue Reading →
Dutch FPSO giant SBM Offshore has ordered the fourth Fast4Ward FPSO hull from the Chinese Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) shipyard. SWS said that his type of FPSO hull also adopts SBM’s ‘universal’ hull design concept and has an oil storage capacity of 2.3 million barrels of crude oil. It also meets the marine environmental conditions... Continue Reading →
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