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JAN 27, 2020 After being declared commercial by Equinor, in December last year, the Carcará area will gain a new name, well befitting the Norwegian culture. The asset will be renamed Bacalhau and the choice is interesting and symbolic because it is the first time, in the last 50 years, that a field in the... Continue Reading →
Dutch shipbuilding company Damen has developed a new concept vessel – the Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) 9020. The vessel has been designed to perform a variety of offshore tasks both at surface level and subsea, Damen said in a statement on Monday. “We were approached by several different operators at the same time, all looking... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 billion oil equivalent barrels and made a further oil discovery northeast of the producing Liza field at the Uaru exploration well, the 16th discovery on the Stabroek Block. The new recoverable resource estimate includes 15 discoveries offshore Guyana through year-end 2019.... Continue Reading →
JAN 24, , 2020 The FPSO P-70, which began its journey to Brazil on December 9 last year, is anchored in Guanabara Bay. The FPSO will carry out its activities in the Atapu field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The unit left the COOEC shipyard in Qingdao, China, where the integration works for the platform... Continue Reading →
January 24, 2020 Petrobras is contracting services and equipment for the new development phase of the project in the Campos Basin The attention of the supply industry returned to Parque das Baleias, a complex of deep water fields in the Campos Basin. In addition to subsea systems, Petrobras is bidding to contract 4D seismic mapping... Continue Reading →
Prysmian Group, a services provider in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a contract by Libra, a consortium of international oil & gas operators, for steel tube umbilicals to be installed in the Mero oilfield, located offshore Brazil. The Libra Consortium is led by Petrobras – with a 40% interest –... Continue Reading →
Jan 23, 2010 Petrobras evaluates new postponement of delivery of proposals for chartering of the third definitive production systems in the Mero 3 field The delivery of proposals for chartering the FPSO of Mero 3 may be postponed again. Last week, Petrobras' bidding committee sent a circular to the bidding invited companies, anticipating the possibility... Continue Reading →
Brazil produced 1.018 billion barrels of oil in 2019, marking the first time the South American nation passed the billion-barrel mark for annual production, the national oil regulator said on Wednesday. In a statement, the regulator, known as the ANP, said 2019 output increased 7.78% over the previous year. Brazil produced 3.106 million barrels per... Continue Reading →
Jan 22, 2020 Ocyan's Norbe VI rig starts operations today, under a contract signed for the next two years. The first campaing will be carried out in the Tartaruga Verde field, in the Campos Basin, with a duration of up to 45 days. Norbe VI is one of Ocyan's 5 deepwater drilling rigs. The rig... Continue Reading →
JAN 21, 2020 Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) denied that the auction of the remaining areas of the Transfer of Rights (Sépia and Atapu) is being postponed to 2021. This is because the event had not yet a defined date and is being studied by technicians. The information was passed on to PetroNotícia by... Continue Reading →
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