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Feb 12, 2020 Equinor's goal of reducing carbon emissions by 2.2 million tonnes between 2021 and 2040 in Peregrino and Pitangola fields in the Campos Basin has just received an important nod. The National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) authorized changes to the Development Plan for the fields. With this, it will be... Continue Reading →
Aquaterra Energy, a provider of offshore engineering solutions, has secured a “significant” agreement from Chevron to design and support the installation of the Sea Swift offshore platform solution off the coast of Angola. Aquaterra said on Tuesday that the deal from Chevron was awarded through the oil major’s wholly-owned subsidiary in Angola – Cabinda Gulf... Continue Reading →
Preliminary results from the shallower sections of Karoon’s Marina exploration well, located offshore Peru, have shown disappointing results, but the work goes on to reach the deeper primary targets. The well is being drilled using the Stena Forth drillship, which arrived to Peru in early Janaury. The well was spud in late January. In an update on Tuesday, Karoon... Continue Reading →
Australia-based Searcher Seismic has completed its offshore Peru OpenSeis 2D & 3D seismic dataset as part of its offshore Peru multi-client campaign. The ‘Offshore Peru OpenSeis Seismic Dataset’ consists of both 2D and 3D vintage seismic data which has been rectified in a post-stack reprocessing method. The data package comprises of 44,389 kilometers of 2D... Continue Reading →
The worldwide offshore rig count in January 2020 has dropped by 14 units sequentially, but rose by two units year-over-year, according to a rig count report by Baker Hughes Company. BHGE splits its rig counts into international and North America rig counts, which combined make the worldwide rig count. The international rig count for January 2020 was... Continue Reading →
Feb 6, 2020 Oil company will quote for the campaign in the Baúna field, in the Santos Basin Karoon will launch, in the coming weeks, a bid for the charter of a rig anchored in Brazil. The drilling unit will be used in the Baúna project, in the Santos Basin, for a period of six... Continue Reading →
Offshore accommodation provider Prosafe has forecast a tougher year ahead, compared to 2019, expecting a drop in flotel rig fleet utilization and day rates falling. The company on Thursday reported a quarterly net loss of $13.3 million (compared to a loss of 35.7 million in Q4 2018). The flotel provider said it would work on... Continue Reading →
Tanker operator AET has won a long-term deal with the Brazilian oil company Petrobras for the charter of three shuttle tankers that will offload oil from Petrobras' offshore oil platforms and FPSOs. AET said Thursday the long-term charters would be for three Suezmax class Dynamic Positioning Shuttle Tankers (DPSTs). Continue reading
The majority of high impact offshore exploration wells in 2020 will be drilled in Africa and the Americas, Rystad Energy, an energy research group based in Norway has said. Rystad Energy rates wells as high-impact by an assessment of several factors. These involve the size of the prospects, hydrocarbon play-opening potential in frontier or emerging... Continue Reading →
Feb 3, 2020 Omni Táxi Aéreo (OTA) is supporting Karoon in its drilling campaign in block Z38, in Peru. This will be OTA's first international operation, which is involved in transporting passengers from the city of Tallara to the Marina 1 well, in the Tumbes basin approximately 110 km from the base of operations. Two... Continue Reading →
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