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Sept 9, 2020 Eagle Paulínia, the second of the four new vessels that are being added to Petrobras' relief fleet in 2020, carried out the first relief operations in Búzios, in the Santos Basin, and concluded its first operational cycle. In the last week of August, the vessel carried out two offloadings - oil transfer... Continue Reading →
September 9, 2020, by Bojan Lepic U.S.-based oil and gas company Kosmos Energy has entered into an agreement with a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell to farm down interests in a portfolio of frontier exploration assets for up to $200 million. São Tomé & Príncipe assets; Source: Kosmos Energy Kosmos said on Wednesday that Shell would... Continue Reading →
September 8, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release dated August 10, 2020, informs the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale of 50% to 100% of its stake, with the passing of the operation, in the BM-S-51 concession, in the Santos Basin. The concession is located at water depths... Continue Reading →
Malaysian FPSO provider Yinson has ordered a large marine compressed air system from TMC for the FPSO Anna Nery, which currently under construction in China, and destined for Petrobras' Marlim revitalization project in Brazil. TMC's compressed air system will consist of four large capacity service and instrument air compressors with associated air dryers and filters. TMC... Continue Reading →
French oil major Total has given up operatorship over five exploration blocks located in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, offshore Brazil. "Total announces that it has notified its partners on August 19 about its resignation from its role of operator for five exploration blocks, located in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, 120 kilometers offshore Brazil,"... Continue Reading →
September 4, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs the conclusion of the Drill Stem Test (DST) in the area of Júpiter Discovery Assessment Plan, located in the Santos Basin presalt. The Jupiter area belongs to the BM-S-24 concession, in which Petrobras is the operator, with an 80% interest, and was acquired in 2001 in... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 Petrobras is already working on the development of Buzios 9 FPSO and for the other phases of the Santos cluster mega field. The oil company hired Doris Engenharia to develop the basic project for a generic FPSO, with a capacity to produce 225 thousand bopd and compress 12.5 million m³ / d... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 The Lula field, in the pre-salt of the Santos basin, achieved a feat that is not yet properly recognized internationally: it is today the seventh field with the largest oil production in the world, surpassing emblematic assets in the onshore and offshore of countries like Russia, United States and Iraq. With a... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 ExxonMobil signed a contract with C-Innovation, a company of the Edison Chouest Offshore group, for the chartering of an ROV capable of operating in water depths of up to 4 thousand m. The deal is aimed at the exploratory campaign that will be carried out in Brazil, in early 2021, with the... Continue Reading →
Sept 3, 2020 Today Petrobras starts receiving proposals from companies interested in providing support with contract management and inspection services for the Buzios 5 Project. What is being put on the table is a kind of "mother contract" or "backbone", as they say in the market, encompassing all the administrative and technical support of the... Continue Reading →
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