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Seismic contractor Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a large Ocean Bottom Node 4D Baseline survey in Brazil with the Brazilian national oil company Petrobras. The deepwater OBN survey will be carried out at the Jubarte Field in the Campos Basin. The 810 sq. km survey will start in the first half of 2021 and be... Continue Reading →
Petrobras announced two relevant bids this week, involving subsea equipment and pipeline connection services on platforms. The first bid includes the acquisition of five umbilical termination units (UTA) for the Búzios 5 platform, FPSO Almirante Barroso. The second bid for a service contract for the operation of pull-in and pull-out systems for subsea pipelines on... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in relation to the news published in the media, regarding the divestment of the Papa-Terra field, Campos Basin, clarifies that the stage of receiving binding offers was completed on 9/29/2020. As a result, on 10/29/2020, negotiations started with Starboard Asset Ltda (Starboard), a fund manager that has a relevant stake... Continue Reading →
Group moves forward in negotiations to acquire its first deepwater project in the Campos Basin. 3R Oil & Gas should acquire the Papa-Terra field in Petrobras' divestment program. Sources linked to the business anticipated that the Brazilian group presented the best proposal in the process, being selected as the preferred leader. The company has already... Continue Reading →
ARMS Reliability said it has reached an agreement with floating production solutions provider MODEC to assist with optimization and rapid strategy development of asset maintenance management philosophy for MODEC’s newest floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) project for the Bacalhau field, offshore Brazil. The Bacalhau FPSO, the largest ever ordered for Brazil, will be... Continue Reading →
French oil major Total has awarded a conditional letter of award to Danish offshore drilling firm Maersk Drilling for the supply of two deepwater rigs, Mærsk Developer and Maersk Valiant, for an exploration and appraisal project in Suriname’s Block 58. Suriname's Block 58 is where Total, with its partner Apache, has struck several oil discoveries in... Continue Reading →
Noble Energy has changed its previously announced contract for the Maersk Drilling-owned drillship Maersk Valiant following a decision not to drill the Colombian offshore well this year. In its fleet status report on Friday, Maersk Drilling said it has agreed with Noble Energy to amend the previously announced contract for the drilling of one well offshore Colombia... Continue Reading →
Norwegian oil and gas seismic data company TGS has returned to Argentina to complete the previously announced Malvinas 3D Multi-Client offshore survey, and has also announced two new surveys in Brazil. In Argentina, TGS has earlier this week started the Malvinas survey using the BGP Prospector vessel owned by China's BGP. The vessel will acquire approximately... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil and gas company PetroRio has signed an agreement with BP for the acquisition of interests in two fields offshore Brazil. PetroRio said on Thursday that the agreement was for the acquisition of 35.7 per cent interest in the BM-C-30 block which consists the Wahoo field. The deal also includes the buy of the... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured contract extensions for two of its 2011-built drillships with Brazil's national oil company Petrobras. Transocean said Wednesday that Petrobras had exercised a 680-day option for the Deepwater Corcovado drillship, and an 815-day option for the Deepwater Mykonos drillship. Transocean acquired both ultra-deepwater drillships through the acquisition of its rival Ocean... Continue Reading →
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