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Jan. 8 (PN) The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) has requested clarifications from Petrobras before authorizing the resumption of drilling at the Morpho well in the Foz do Amazonas Basin. The activity was suspended after two auxiliary lines connected to the ODN-II drillship, chartered by Foresea, registered a loss of drilling fluid last Sunday. The ANP... Continue Reading →
Jan. 8 - The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) sent an official letter to Petrobras (PETR3;PETR4), requesting technical information about the biodegradable fluid leak accident during offshore drilling activity in Block FZA-M-59, on the Equatorial Margin. The letter was sent by the General Coordination of Environmental Licensing of Marine and Coastal... Continue Reading →
Jan. 6 (PN) The first operational challenge for Petrobras in the search for oil on the Equatorial Margin. The oil company halted drilling at the Morpho well, in block FZA-M-059, off the coast of Amapá last Sunday (4). In a note sent today the oil company explained that it interrupted the activity after identifying the... Continue Reading →
Jan. 6 (OE) Chinese multinational oilfield equipment and services provider Jereh Group has delivered slop treatment units and oil purifiers to CIMC Raffles for Petrobras’ P84 and P85 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units, bound for deployment at the Atapu and Sépia fields, off Brazil. The equipment will support slop water and oil separation... Continue Reading →
Dec. 23 (PN) Everything is fine with the P-68 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which has resumed production in the Berbigão field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin. The unit's operation was suspended last Friday (19th) after a fire broke out in the water treatment unit panel of the platform. Production... Continue Reading →
Dec. 19 (oilnow.gy) U.S. oilfield equipment maker NOV Inc. announced that it won a third-quarter contract from ExxonMobil Guyana to supply an actively heated flexible pipe system for the Hammerhead field development offshore Guyana. NOV said the scope of work includes the design, engineering, procurement, fabrication and testing of a complete flexible pipe system, expected... Continue Reading →
Dec. 12 (offshore-energy.biz) TechnipFMC has delivered its 100th Subsea 2.0 tree to UK-headquartered energy giant Shell, the company that placed the first order for the subsea product platform. The subsea tree was manufactured, assembled, and tested at TechnipFMC’s dedicated facility for Subsea 2.0 in Nusajaya, Malaysia, and will be used on Shell’s project in the Gulf... Continue Reading →
Dec. 10 (OE) French offshore services provider Bourbon has signed a five-year contract, with extension options, with ExxonMobil Guyana (EMGL) to provide maritime services in Guyana. It will start in the first quarter of 2026, with the commissioning of the large platform supply vessel (PSV) Bourbon Calm and covers the transport of products essential to... Continue Reading →
Dec. 2 - Intermoor, Acteon’s Moorings and Anchors business line, has been awarded a three-year contract by Petrobras, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston in May 2025. With work due to commence in December 2025, Intermoor will deliver comprehensive quality assurance and traceability services across Petrobras’... Continue Reading →
Nov. 21 (OE) Swiss-based equipment supplier Sulzer has secured an order to supply multiple water injection packages to Seatrium for Petrobras’ next generation P-84 and P-85 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. To support the construction of both vessels, Sulzer will deliver fully integrated pump skids designed to provide maximum efficiency in a compact... Continue Reading →
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