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New York-listed floating regasification specialist Excelerate Energy has secured a 10-year charter deal from Brazil’s Petrobras for the FSRU Sequoia. The agreement, effective January 1, 2024, will see the Texas-headquartered Excelerate continue to deploy the 2020-built unit to provide regasification services in Brazil at the Bahia regasification terminal in Salvador. Excelerate has provided regasification services in... Continue Reading →
ANP published the executive summary of the new development areas of Raia Manta and Raia Pintada, originating from recent declarations of commerciality for block C-M-539, in the Campos Basin. The block is operated by the company Equinor Energy do Brasil Ltda., which sent the commerciality declarations to the ANP on 9/20. Block C-M-539, arising from... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Angola's largest private oil and gas company Azule Energy plans to raise production by around 14% to 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2026, its CEO said on Thursday, in a boost to the country's plans to turn around flagging output. Azule Energy, a 50/50 joint venture between Eni and BP formed last year when the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Italy's Eni hopes to reach a final investment decision on its second floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique by the end of June next year, two sources directly involved with the project said on Tuesday. Its first LNG project - called Coral Sul - made the impoverished African country a global producer... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore development of new gas assets has been identified as a key piece to Colombia’s long-term energy security, but significant challenges remain. The size, production capability, and required infrastructure investments all make the situation uncertain, energy industry intelligence group Wood Mackenzie has found. According to Wood Mackenzie, the development of recent offshore gas discoveries... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - A BP Plc (BP.L) and Shell Plc (SHEL.L) consortium have reached an agreement with Trinidad and Tobago to explore three deepwater blocks for hydrocarbon production in the Caribbean country, Minister of Energy Stuart Young said on Thursday. The deal would help Trinidad speed up offshore exploration and production to secure more natural gas to support its liquefied... Continue Reading →
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has submitted declarations of commerciality and plans of development for two fields in the BM-C-33 concession in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil Equinor is the operator of the BM-C-33 offshore concession with a 35% stake, with its partners being Repsol Sinopec Brasil (35%) and Petrobras (30%). The concession is... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, as a partner in the BM-C-33 consortium, informs that the operator Equinor Energy do Brasil Ltda submitted to the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), on September 20, 2023, the declarations of commerciality of the oil accumulations located in the BM-C-33 Concession area. Petrobras acquired a 30%... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Uruguay state-run energy firm Ancap is set to agree to final terms for a record number of seven offshore exploration licenses next month, a senior executive told Reuters, as the frontier market lures bets from global players like Shell. To date no oil or gas has been found in Uruguayan waters, but the licenses... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling company Noble Corp. said Tuesday it had won a contract with TotalEnergies, to redeploy the harsh-environment jackup rig Noble Regina Allen for the drilling of three horizontal wells at the Fénix project in southern Argentina. TotalEnergies subsidiary, Total Austral, awarded the contract to Noble Drilling. The contract is expected to start in the... Continue Reading →
