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Following its recent two oil discoveries, Tullow Oil and its partners in the Orinduik block located offshore Guyana are reviewing multiple prospects on the block and working to approve the budget for the 2020 drilling campaign. Tullow is the operator of the Orinduik block with a 60% Working Interest while Total and Eco Atlantic have... Continue Reading →
The Peregrino C jacket, built by Heerema Fabrication Group for Equinor, has left a fabrication yard in the Netherlands and sailed away to Brazil. Equinor awarded Heerema Fabrication Group the procurement & construction contract for the Peregrino II WHP C Jacket in May 2017. The construction started in November 2017 at Heerema’s Vlissingen yard. In a social media post... Continue Reading →
Mexican industrial group Carso, owned by the billionaire Carlos Slim, has said it has been awarded a contract to build two offshore platforms for the Mexican oil company Pemex. The company said the contract for the engineering, procurement, and construction of two offshore platforms named MALOOB-E and MALOOB-I. The platforms are destined to be deployed... Continue Reading →
Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has secured a letter of award to provide a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey offshore Brazil. Fugro said on Monday that the 410 square kilometer survey in the Santos Basin has a contract value of over $50 million. The company added that the survey would... Continue Reading →
Karoon Energy has signed a marketing agreement with Shell West, a member of the Royal Dutch Shell group, to trade and ship crude oil production from the Baúna field located offshore Brazil. The Baúna field, located in the Santos Basin off the coast of the state of São Paulo, started its operations in February 2013... Continue Reading →
Oct 18 ,2019 Field areas in the Campos Basin should be included in the ANP permanent offer regime. Petrobras informed the ANP of its interest in voluntarily returning the areas of modules 1 and 2 of the Espadarte field in the Campos Basin. If the order is approved, the areas - which have not been... Continue Reading →
Oct 16, 2019 Petrobras launched, on Monday (14/10), a notice for the chartering of one or more rigs capable of operating between 2,400 m and 3,000 m water depths. Proposals are due to be delivered by November 11, and start-up is from January to March 2020. The announcement brings news about previous bids from Petrobras,... Continue Reading →
Oct 16, 2019 Petrobras postponed to December the submission of subsea proposals for the provision of engineering services, supplies, construction and installation (EPCI) for Mero 2 and Búzios V. Scheduled for October, the dates are set for the 9 and 30 of the last month of the year respectively. These are the only major tenders... Continue Reading →
Veolia Water Technologies said its VWS Westgarth subsidiary has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract by SBM Offshore for the supply of a seawater treatment package for the Liza Unity floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO), to be deployed in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. The award is for the design and procurement of... Continue Reading →
With the resumption of oil and gas block tenders in Brazil, including highly valued pre-salt tenders, offshore support vessel (OSV) owners are expecting to get any vessels that are lying by without a contract to soon rejoin the market. However, the owners of the large number of Brazil flagged vessels that were built but did... Continue Reading →
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