(OE) Offshore seismic services firm Shearwater Geoservices has been given a go-ahead from Petrobras to start one of the two 4D projects covering the Jubarte and Tartaruga Verde fields in the Campos Basin area. Under the eight-month contract, announced in January 4, 2023, Shearwater will use its high-capacity vessel Oceanic Vega and will start imminently.... Continue Reading →
Petrobras informs about termination of divestment contract for Uruguá and Tambaú fields
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the communications of September 8, 2021, October 27, 2021, March 29, 2023 and December 21, 2023, and as a result of the failure to complete the acquisition of FPSO Cidade de Santos by Enauta Energia S.A. (according to the decision communicated by that company on July 1,... Continue Reading →
FPSO Destiny Purchase by ExxonMobil Guyana Completed
SBM Offshore and ExxonMobil Guyana Ltd, an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, have completed the transaction related to the purchase of FPSO Liza Destiny, ahead of the maximum lease term, which would have expired in December 2029. The purchase allows ExxonMobil Guyana to assume ownership of the unit while SBM Offshore will continue to operate... Continue Reading →
Petrobras drilling exploratory wells in North of Brava and Aram blocks, in the Pre-Salt layer
Petrobras recently started drilling two new wells in the region, in the North of Brava and Aram blocks, which are located in the Campos and Santos basins, respectively. In Aram, the adjacent pioneer exploratory well 4-BRSA-1395-SPS is in a water depth of 1,757 meters, with drilling being carried out by the Valaris DS-4 rig. The... Continue Reading →
Petrobras hires another drillship for work at two oil fields offshore Brazil
(offshore-energy.biz) Ventura Offshore Midco, a subsidiary of the Brazilian deepwater offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore, has secured a long-term drillship contract with Petrobras, a compatriot state-owned energy giant, for operations at two oil field developments off the coast of Brazil. Just like Seadrill, which won a drilling deal for 1,095 days plus extension options after a competitive tender,... Continue Reading →
Shell to Seek Suriname’s Approval for Four-Well Offshore Drilling Plan
(Reuters) BG International, a unit of oil major Shell operating in Suriname, plans to submit a plan to the South American country's environmental agency for drilling up to four exploration wells at offshore Block 65, according to a company document seen on Tuesday. Suriname is progressing toward its first oil and gas production offshore. A... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Hires Constellation’s Drillship for Work Offshore Brazil
Offshore drilling contractor Constellation has secured a contract with Petrobras for its ultra-deepwater drillship Amaralina Star, which will operate offshore Brazil, covering remote areas of frontier exploration, such as the Equatorial Margin and Pelotas Basin. The value of the agreement is approximately $528 million, which includes around $39 million mobilization fee and additional integrated services... Continue Reading →
Petrobras to use Nasa technology to monitor the Equatorial Margin
Petrobras has been accepted into the Early Adopters program of the NISAR (Nasa-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission, a joint project between the American space agency and the Indian Space Research Organization to develop and launch, in 2025, an unprecedented SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite image collection system for Earth observation. The images will be used... Continue Reading →
FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão Leaves China on Its Way to Brazil for the Mero Field
The FPSO (Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading Unit) Alexandre de Gusmão left China today, December 16, heading towards the Mero oil field in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin. The platform, leased by Petrobras in partnership with SBM, can produce 180,000 barrels of oil per day and compresses 12 million cubic meters of gas... Continue Reading →
Exxon wants to keep option for Hess Guyana assets, CEO says
(Reuters) Exxon Mobil wants to preserve its right of first refusal in Hess Corp's sale of its Guyana oil production assets because of the work it has put into developing the country's offshore fields, two of its top executives said on Wednesday. A three-person panel in May is to decide whether Hess's deal to sell itself... Continue Reading →