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IKM said on Tuesday that the scope had included a pipeline concept study for gas export from the BM-C-33 field to the coast of the Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil. According to the company, this work will be a continuation of the IKM Ocean Design commitment to support Equinor’s major projects with innovative and... Continue Reading →
Mar 11, 2020 There is a privatization plan for PPSA being discussed at the Ministry of Economy, led by Paulo Guedes, informs the Bloomberg agency. The state-owned company, which represents the Union in the pre-salt sharing contracts, would have been elected, along with Eletrobras, as the priority privatizations of 2020. - Still according to Bloomberg,... Continue Reading →
IKM Ocean Design has been awarded a pipeline study contract by Equinor for its ultra deepwater project in Brazil. The scope includes a pipeline concept study for gas export from the BM-C-33 field to the coast of the Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil. “This work will be a continuation of the IKM Ocean Design... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (iEPCI) contract from BP Angola for the Platina field development, located offshore Angola. The Platina field is located in Block 18 at water depths ranging from 1,200 to 1,500 meters. TechnipFMC said on Tuesday that the contract covers the manufacture, delivery and installation... Continue Reading →
Mar 5, 2020 The board of the National Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) approved the sale of 30% of the Sul do Gato do Mato field (Production Sharing Contract), in the Santos Basin pre-salt, to Ecopetrol. With the new distribution in this block, Shell now holds a 50% interest in the project (previously its... Continue Reading →
March 6, 2020 ExxonMobil CEO Darren W. Woods, during a presentation to investors at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), said that the company plans to expand exploratory activity in Brazil this year and in 2021. He did not give details about the activities, but, as published, the oil company is expected to drill a... Continue Reading →
Brazil's government is unlikely to auction the remaining production rights to the "transfer-of-rights" (TOR) offshore oil zone until 2021, Economy Ministry Subsecretary Waldery Rodrigues told Reuters on Friday. The TOR area is a prolific oil-producing region off the Brazilian coast. The government auctioned production rights to two of its subdivisions in November, but two others... Continue Reading →
Seismic services provider PGS is back in Brazil in 2020 with a Ramform Titan-class vessel to acquire the first GeoStreamer X MultiClient 3D seismic survey in the region. The Campos Deepwater GeoStreamer X project will deliver high-quality, long offset, multi-azimuth seismic data over the deepwater portion of northern Campos Basin and the first data will... Continue Reading →
Sandvik reports it has won the first large-scale stainless steel umbilical tube order in Brazil’s pre-salt Mero oilfield. Mero is an expansive pre-salt oilfield in the Santos Basin offshore Rio de Janeiro with immense oil production potential. The Mero oilfield is being managed by the Libra Consortium, made up of a partnership between Petrobras, Total,... Continue Reading →
Oilfield services company Wood is delivering a multimillion-dollar engineering design project for Chevron’s Anchor deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico. The scope of the project included the preliminary, front end engineering and design (Pre-FEED), FEED and now entails detailed design of Anchor, a wet tree development that will employ a semi-submersible floating production unit... Continue Reading →
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