Oilfield services giant Baker Hughes and Norway's Akastor on Monday said they would create a joint venture that will bring together Baker Hughes’ Subsea Drilling Systems (SDS) business with Akastor’s subsidiary, MHWirth AS (MHWirth). MHWirth provides advanced drilling solutions and services, and Baker Hughes’ SDS business is a division of the Oilfield Equipment segment of... Continue Reading →
TECHNIPFMC SAYS THAT BRAZIL WILL HAVE HIGHEST NUMBER OF SUBSEA PROJECTS IN 2021
TechnipFMC's expectations with the Brazilian market are high. The company recently released its 2020 financial results and also presented its outlook for this year. According to the company, Brazil will be the country with the highest number of new subsea project orders in 2021. The company has mapped eight opportunities for new contracts in the... Continue Reading →
PETROBRAS LAUNCHED TENDER TO CONTRACT UP TO FIVE OFFSHORE DRILLING RIGS
In the midst of the process of change in its high command, Petrobras launched this week a new tender that promises to move the market. The state-owned company published a public notice to contract up to five offshore drilling rigs. The opening of the envelopes with the bidders' proposals is scheduled for March 15th. The... Continue Reading →
MME launches on March 11, the Offshore Fields Revitalization Program – Promar
Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) launches, in an online event promoted by the Energy Research Company (EPE), on March 11, the Program to Revitalize and Encourage the Production of Offshore Fields (Promar). The program seeks to create conditions for the revitalization of mature offshore fields and to improve the economic use of accumulations of... Continue Reading →
Rystad highlights subsea boosting as opportunity for more than 200 oil projects
Subsea boosting could make an immediate increase in production profitably on more than 200 oil projects globally, according to Rystad Energy’s newly launched Subsea Processing Screening Tool. The increase in recoverable reserves for the top 100 projects, out of more than 200 projects identified where subsea boosting would be profitable, averaged 61 million barrels of... Continue Reading →
Three players develop green solution to cut emissions in drilling operations
A collaborative, green solution developed between COSL Drilling Europe, Kongsberg Maritime, and drilling equipment provider NOV is poised to generate environmental and financial savings in offshore drilling operations. COSL Drilling’s ‘Energy Control’ project has been launched as a means of simultaneously slashing greenhouse gas emissions and substantially lowering fuel and maintenance overheads on the company’s... Continue Reading →
With an average of 2.94 million barrels per day, oil production in Brazil grows 5.5% in 2020, according to ANP
The ANP released today the Monthly Bulletin on Oil and Natural Gas Production, with detailed data on national production for December 2020. This month's publication also includes a special insert with the consolidated data of production in the year 2020. The Bulletin can be accessed on the page https://www.gov.br/anp/pt-br/centrais-de-conteudo/publicacoes/boletins-anp/boletim-mensal-da-producao-de-petroleo-e-gas-natural. That year, production registered records in... Continue Reading →
KAROON SIGNED LETTER OF INTENT WITH TECHNIPFMC FOR PURCHASE OF PATOLA FIELD EQUIPMENT
The Australian oil company Karoon Energy announced the plans for the acquisition of necessary equipment for the Patola field, in the Santos basin. The agreement was signed with TechnipFMC and provides for long-term items that will be used in the development of the asset. The information was disclosed in the company's financial and operating balance... Continue Reading →
Enauta forced to stop Atlanta output again only day after restart
Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta, formerly known as QGEP, has once again been forced to stop production from the only producing well on the Atlanta field to replace a faulty heater only a day after restarting it following a shutdown in November 2020. The Atlanta field Early Production System started production in May 2018, almost two... Continue Reading →
ENAUTA: ATLANTA FIELD RETURNS TO PRODUCTION
Enauta announced the return of the operation of one of the production wells in the Atlanta field, in the Santos basin. Active production had been halted since November 2020. The 7-ATL-4HB-RJS well was initially producing 11,000 barrels of oil per day. Enauta plans to put into production the second well in the field (7-ATL-3H-RJS) still... Continue Reading →