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Oct. 21 (OE) A consortium of offshore energy companies including TotalEnergies, Equinor, Aker BP, DeepOcean, Tenaris, and LS Cable & System has launched a joint industry project to commercialize a new subsea flowline heating technology designed to cut costs and carbon emissions related to deepwater oil and gas subsea tie-back projects. The system, named FlowHeat,... Continue Reading →
Oct. 20 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it received today the environmental license from Ibama to drill an exploratory well in block FZA-M-059, located in deep waters off Amapá, 500 km from the mouth of the Amazon River and 175 km from the coast, on the Brazilian Equatorial Margin. The drill rig... Continue Reading →
Oct. 16 - Petrobras reported that it has submitted the information requested by Ibama related to the licensing process at Foz do Amazonas. According to the company, the environmental agency considered that all outstanding issues were duly clarified and that the information presented is sufficient to continue analyzing the process. "Petrobras remains confident that the... Continue Reading →
Oct 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's environmental agency Ibama has requested additional information from state-run oil firm Petrobras as part of the licensing process for drilling in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, according to documents seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The agency also proposed a meeting on Thursday after a new technical report flagged "pending issues and... Continue Reading →
Oct.10 (offshore-energy.biz) Chevron Suriname Exploration, a subsidiary of U.S.-based energy giant Chevron, is preparing to embark on drilling activities off the coast of Suriname with a rig owned by Noble Corporation, an American offshore drilling giant. Chevron is set to drill the Korikori-1 exploration well this month, after receiving a permit for the drilling operations at the... Continue Reading →
Oct. 9 (offshoreWIND.biz) The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded USD 20 million (approximately EUR 17 million) to the Port of Long Beach to fund the ongoing development of Pier Wind, a proposed USD 4.7 billion (approx. EUR 4 billion) terminal that would serve the floating wind industry. CEC has awarded the grant through the... Continue Reading →
Oct 8 (Reuters) - Brazil's government on Wednesday detailed a new Eco Invest auction to attract foreign equity into innovation and sustainability projects, offering a foreign-exchange hedge mechanism for the first time. The government will channel Climate Fund resources to financial institutions to structure foreign-exchange and performance risk-hedging mechanisms, which the Finance Ministry said would... Continue Reading →
Oct. 9 (Reuters) - Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras has racked up 180 million reais ($33.7 million) in costs to keep a drillship on standby in the Foz do Amazonas basin, a company source and a local union said, as it awaits a regulator's decision on a drilling request. The NS-42 drillship arrived in August... Continue Reading →
Oct. 8 (Agencia Eixos by Gabriel Chiappini and Gustavo Gaudarde) The Working Group, announced last week, to discuss the regulation of offshore wind power, by the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE), has dashed the hopes of industry representatives that the third Lula administration would hold the first auction for the transfer of land for offshore... Continue Reading →
Sept. 24 - Petrobras received approval from Ibama on Wednesday, September 24th, for the Pre-Operational Assessment (APO), the emergency response simulation conducted by the company in August of this year, as the final stage of the environmental licensing process for block FZA-M-59, located in deepwater areas of Amapá. The report approving the APO was filed... Continue Reading →
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