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Australian player Karoon Energy has offloaded its first shipment of over 500,000 barrels of oil from its newly acquired Baúna production field, offshore Brazil. Karoon said on Thursday that the shipment comprised of oil produced by the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí, operated by the Altera&Ocyan joint venture, in the period since the company completed its acquisition... Continue Reading →
Australian oil and gas firm BHP has awarded a contract to McDermott to carry out the preliminary Front-End Engineering Design (preFEED) extension phase for a Floating Production Unit (FPU) that could be installed at its Trion field offshore Mexico. The FPU would be installed in a water depth of around 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) at... Continue Reading →
Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF Group has won a contract award from the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras. DOF said on Wednesday that Petrobras had awarded a contract to its Skandi Rio vessel. The AHTS18000 Skandi Rio will support Petrobras’ exploration and production activities on the Brazilian continental shelf. The vessel is owned and operated by... Continue Reading →
Global demand for helicopter transport to offshore facilities plunged in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, a Rystad Energy report shows. According to Rystad’s report from Monday, the helicopter traffic was affected as non-critical maintenance crews were moved to shore and other non-essential operations at offshore facilities were preventatively deferred to reduce the risk... Continue Reading →
Hess Corporation said it is encouraged by the exploration success of Apache and Total in Suriname’s Block 58 where three discoveries have so far been made and the search for more hydrocarbon continues. John Hess, CEO of Hess Corporation said Suriname is in the early stages of its offshore development, like where Guyana was in... Continue Reading →
The decisions of Petrobras management, led by the current president Roberto Castello Branco, look like aimless ship. The biggest example of this was the cancellation of the tender, announced on Friday night , 25 days before the submission of proposals. The company decided to stop the development of the infrastructure adaptation project of the Monteiro... Continue Reading →
A project has been launched in the UK to explore the viability of developing an offshore charging facility for vessels as part of the industry’s efforts to decarbonize its vessel operations. Funded by the first phase of the UK Government’s Sustainable Innovation Fund, the project - led by Turbulent Simulations, alongside Aluminium Marine Consultants, the... Continue Reading →
Seismic contractor Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a large Ocean Bottom Node 4D Baseline survey in Brazil with the Brazilian national oil company Petrobras. The deepwater OBN survey will be carried out at the Jubarte Field in the Campos Basin. The 810 sq. km survey will start in the first half of 2021 and be... Continue Reading →
Noble Energy has changed its previously announced contract for the Maersk Drilling-owned drillship Maersk Valiant following a decision not to drill the Colombian offshore well this year. In its fleet status report on Friday, Maersk Drilling said it has agreed with Noble Energy to amend the previously announced contract for the drilling of one well offshore Colombia... Continue Reading →
Norwegian oil and gas seismic data company TGS has returned to Argentina to complete the previously announced Malvinas 3D Multi-Client offshore survey, and has also announced two new surveys in Brazil. In Argentina, TGS has earlier this week started the Malvinas survey using the BGP Prospector vessel owned by China's BGP. The vessel will acquire approximately... Continue Reading →
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