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Dutch-based SBM Offshore and Ireland’s renewable project developer DP Energy have set up a joint venture to pursue floating offshore wind energy opportunities off Nova Scotia, Canada. The duo said they would work to support Nova Scotia’s ambitious climate action targets and “contribute meaningfully” to the phasing out of coal from the grid. The Canadian... Continue Reading →
(OE) UK-based CRP Subsea has recently won a "major" contract from an unnamed "leading energy technology company," AIS, CRP's parent company, said this week. CRP Subsea will deliver 333 distributed buoyancy modules (DBMs) for a deepwater oil field project located in the pre-salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Distributed buoyancy modules (DBMs) are typically used between structures... Continue Reading →
(OE) Oil company Tullow said Monday that production from its Jubilee oil field offshore Ghana had surpassed 100,000 barrels of oil per day, following the recent start-up of the Jubilee South East (JSE) Project. "Gross production from the field has surpassed 100,000 bopd, after a second JSE production well was brought onstream. Both of the... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil company Enauta said Friday it had received a letter from the Malaysian FPSO company Yinson, notifying the exercise of an option to acquire FPSO Atlanta, through the purchase of all the shares of AFPS B.V., the platform owner company. Enauta normally produces oil from the Atlanta field offshore Brazil using the early production... Continue Reading →
(OE) Dutch offshore wind farm developer CrossWind has awarded Italy-based Rosetti Marino a new engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract for an offshore green hydrogen production and storage pilot plant - called the 'Baseload Power Hub.' The Baseload Power Hub will be located within CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm, 18.5 kilometers off... Continue Reading →
Norwegian state-owned oil and gas giant Equinor has disclosed video footage, showing a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which will work on its field offshore Brazil, leaving a Chinese shipyard, following 32 months of work. Equinor’s video shows the FPSO Bacalhau hull leaving the Dalian Shipbuilding (DSIC) shipyard in China. This comes over a month after... Continue Reading →
(OET) Newly formed upstream energy investment platform Samos Energy has completed its first acquisition by getting its hands on all shares of PetroFirst, a floating energy infrastructure owner, from funds managed by BlackRock Infrastructure and from Petrofac Limited. According to Samos Energy, this acquisition enables it to take over PetroFirst’s fleet of three offshore production... Continue Reading →
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has concluded the auction for the disposal of a floating offshore platform, as part of its new commitment to sustainable ship recycling. This is believed to be the first recycling project of this sort to be undertaken in Brazil.Petrobras sold the P-32 floating unit, which worked at the Marlim field in the Campos... Continue Reading →
Norway’s FPSO operator BW Offshore has completed the sale of another floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel to a buyer, whose name was not revealed. BW Offshore recently revealed that it had closed the sale of the FPSO Sendje Berge to an undisclosed local FPSO owner and operator for a total consideration of $15 million. The... Continue Reading →
(TN) Pre-salt production in May was 3.196 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) and corresponded to 77.8% of Brazilian production. 2.510 million barrels per day (bbl/d) of oil and 109.16 million cubic meters per day (m³/d) of natural gas were produced through 144 wells. There was an increase of 5.9% in relation to... Continue Reading →
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