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(PN) Petrobras is intensifying its exploratory work in the Campos Basin. The company recently started drilling well 4-BRSA-1392D-ESS, in the Jubarte field, in a water depth of 968 meters. The activity is being carried out with the Brava Star drillship, from Constellation. The new well is classified as Adjacent Pioneer Exploration, which is drilled to... Continue Reading →
(OM) TotalEnergies, together with APA Corporation and Staatsolie, has made progress toward reaching the final investment decision (FID) for the development of deepwater Block 58 offshore Suriname, expected to be made in the fourth quarter of 2024. TotalEnergies is the operator of Block 58 with a 50% interest, alongside APA Corporation (50%), while Staatsolie has... Continue Reading →
(Offshore-energy.biz) Brazilian oil and gas player Enauta has resumed production from one of its floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels working on a field offshore Brazil, following maintenance. Enauta reported that production in the Atlanta field in Brazilian waters was restarted on May 25, 2024, following five-day maintenance on the FPSO Petrojarl I. The platform’s operational availability... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore services firm Subsea 7 has been awarded a ‘super major’ contract by Petrobras for the development of the Búzios 9 field offshore Brazil. The contract scope includes engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, and pre-commissioning of 102 kilometres of rigid risers and flowlines for the steel lazy wave production system. The exact value of the... Continue Reading →
(OE) Yinson Production has placed $1.035 billion senior secured notes to refinance the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Anna Nery, working for Petrobras in the Marlim field, offshore Brazil. The successful pricing of $1.035 billion 144A/Reg S non-recourse, senior secured notes, was issued by Yinson Boronia Production, which owns and operates the FPSO... Continue Reading →
(OM) BW Energy plans to take FID later this year on two new infill wells at the Golfinho Field in the Espirito Santos Basin offshore Brazil, the company said in a results statement. The GLF-51 oil well and the GLF-50 gas well should double production from the field in 2027. BW Energy reported first-quarter 2024 stable production... Continue Reading →
The platform ship Marechal Duque de Caxias arrived in Brazil today, 05/27, from China, heading for the Mero field in the pre-salt Santos Basin. The platform of the FPSO type (floating production, storage, and transfer unit) can produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil and compress up to 12 million cubic meters of gas, all... Continue Reading →
(OilNow) Luiz Hayum, a principal analyst with Wood Mackenzie’s Latin America upstream research team, sees Guyana’s oil bounty raking in huge sums for the ExxonMobil-led consortium and the government. “Our valuation for Stabroek’s ten-FPSO development is over US$150 billion at US$65/barrel Brent prices split between the government and the three block partners,” Hayum said in... Continue Reading →
(OE) Petrobras, together with its partners, has made the final investment decision (FID) for the second development phase of Atapu and Sépia fields, located in the prolific pre-salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The Atapu field has been producing since 2020 through the P-70 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, with a production capacity of... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A – Petrobras informs that, today, it signed contracts with Seatrium O&G Americas Limited to acquire the P-84 and P-85 vessel platforms. Both units will be self-owned and installed in the Atapu and Sépia fields, respectively, in ultra-deep waters of the pre-salt of the Santos Basin, with first oil date between 2029 and... Continue Reading →
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