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Equinor’s big bet on offshore wind will rival major oil projects, Norwegian intelligence group Rystad Energy said on Tuesday following a recent announcement that Equinor will work on the world’s largest offshore wind farm development, which is located in the UK North Sea. The offshore wind project Dogger Bank in the UK North Sea will... Continue Reading →
Canadian oil and gas company CGX Energy has hired PGS to conduct a 3D seismic survey over its Corentyne Block offshore Guyana. CGX has also deferred all operational obligations under its drilling rig contract for the Ralph Coffman jack-up due to the re-sequencing of commitments in the Corentyne Block. CGX Energy said on Monday that,... Continue Reading →
September 23, 2019 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras reports that platform P-50, located in the Campos Basin, in the Albacora Leste field, had its production preemptively halted on Sunday night, due to the disruption of the mooring of the anchor system. Anchored by another 15 moorings, the platform is stable and safe, offering no risk... Continue Reading →
Sept 23, 2019 Petrobras looks at opportunities to become a gas exporter, says Petrobras' institutional relations director Roberto Ardenghy, the company sees potential to become a liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter in the future. Today, Brazil is an importer of this product. The executive stressed that the state-owned company expects a “very large” increase in production... Continue Reading →
Sept 23, 2019 In October, Petrobras will sign the charter contracts for the Marlim and Parque das Baleias FPSOs. Sources have confirmed to PetroleoHoje that the oil company concluded negotiations with newcomer Yinson and Modec a little less than two weeks ago and that the formalization of operations depends only on internal procedures. Both Modec... Continue Reading →
The country’s oil and gas regulator Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) last week gave its nod for Eni to drill the Ehecatl-1 exploration well in the Block 7. Eni got hold of the block as part of the licensing round in 2017. Eni’s partner in the Block, Cairn Energy, said earlier this month that the... Continue Reading →
September 20th, 2019 Enauta Participações S.A. (“Enauta”, “Company” B3: ENAT3”) informs that the intervention to exchange the second well’s pump was concluded and the Atlanta Field’s total three wells production reached the peak of 30,462 barrels of oil per day. The drilling of the third well of the Early Production System was concluded in the... Continue Reading →
September 20, 2019 In November 2010, Exxon Mobil Corp. sent workers to a rig off the coast of Brazil, hoping to find oil in one of the most anticipated drilling programs in the energy sector. About 2,300 meters below the surface, they drilled the seabed, drilling more than 3 kilometers over almost two months before... Continue Reading →
Sept 18, 2019 PetroRio plans to decommission the Polvo field between 2031 and 2032, 15 years after the estimate considered when it took over the project in 2014. The information is from the operator's Integrity engineer, Pablo Bartholo. The extension of the asset life in the Campos Basin will be possible thanks to a series... Continue Reading →
In an Industry first, the provider of classification services to the offshore industry ABS partnered with Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) in developing the first two new build Drilling Rigs with Smart Notations. One of the rigs, which was delivered earlier this year for work in offshore Mexico, is already online with its performance... Continue Reading →
