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The oil market turmoil brought on by Covid-19 has led to lower-than-anticipated activity and delayed projects, forcing the industry to deploy cost-cutting measures. A Rystad Energy analysis of the top 50 oilfield service (OFS) firms shows that staffing is set to reach its lowest level in more than 10 years, with the anticipated revenue per... Continue Reading →
Aug 12, 2020 Petrobras management is promising the supply chain to share a series of technical details about its new pre-salt exploration and production projects earlier. The information was provided by the company's executive director of Production Development, Rudimar Lorenzatto, who participated in a webinar promoted by SPE Brasil. The executive stated that the sooner... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil is set to begin drilling at the Kaieteur Block offshore Guyana, hoping to replicate successes made in the adjacent Stabroek block where it has made more than 16 discoveries. Westmount Energy, which indirectly owns a share in the Kaieteur Block, on Monday cited a statement by Ration Petroleum, according to which the... Continue Reading →
Just as the oil and gas industry was starting to get back on its feet, COVID-19 and plummeting oil prices have affected the market across the board, including well intervention. But players in this space are optimistic, with new vessels and more compact intervention systems being planned and hopes that production enhancement will be an... Continue Reading →
Norwegian offshore supply vessel owner Solstad offshore has secured several contract extensions with oil companies Total and Equinor in Brazil. France's Total has extended the contracts for the platform supply vessel Normand Swift and the AHTS vessel Far Sagaris until December 2020. Tge vessels will be used to support Total’s activities in the Lapa field... Continue Reading →
Norwegian seismic data provider TGS on Friday announced a return to Argentina to complete the previously announced 17,800 square kilometer Malvinas 3D Multi-Client survey. The acquisition is set to restart in Q4 2020 on what TGS said was a "highly- funded survey." TGS further said the survey would continue to grow the 3D library in... Continue Reading →
CIMC Raffles-managed offshore accommodation rig OOS Tiradentes will soon resume work for Petrobras in Brazil, after a hiatus due to COVID-19 pandemic. CIMC Raffles asset operation management center which manages the semi-sub accommodation rig, has received the notice from Petrobras to resume operation. Continue reading
August 3, 2020 Petro Rio S.A., (the “Company” or “PetroRio”) (B3: PRIO3), informs its shareholders and the market in general that, in addition the Material Fact of February 3, 2020, the National Petroleum Agency (“ANP”) granted, on this date, effectiveness to the the amendments to the concession agreement in connection to the rights (“farm-in”)... Continue Reading →
An offshore supply vessel was reportedly attacked offshore Mexico on Friday, July 24, in an incident that was described as a "violent armed boarding and robbery of personal belongings." The maritime safety intelligence company Dryad said Monday that the offshore supply vessel Natalie was boarded while conducting operations in the vicinity of the ODIN Offshore... Continue Reading →
Global oil and gas project sanctioning is set for a monstrous 75% plus drop in 2020 from 2019 levels, as the Covid-19 pandemic has led to massive E&P spending cuts, the energy intelligence company Rystad Energy has estimated. According to Rystad Energy, the total sanctioning value will end up at around $47 billion, an amount... Continue Reading →
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