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Norwegian oil company Equinor has entered an offshore exploration partnership with Argentina’s YPF for work in the CAN 100 block. Equinor and YPF representatives have signed a preliminary agreement setting core terms and conditions for YPF’s transfer of 50% of its share in the CAN 100 offshore block to Equinor. Tim Dodson, Equinor’s executive vice... Continue Reading →
Aug 19, 2019 The offer of 15 exploratory blocks in the SC-AR4 sector in shallow waters of the Campos Basin may attract the interest of independent oil companies registered in the Permanent Offer. The blocks are near the fields of Polvo, operated by PetroRio, and Peregrino, operated by Equinor, which is not registered in the... Continue Reading →
The Brazilian oil and gas regulator ANP has granted BW Offshore the oil and gas operator status in Brazil. ANP has also approved the transfer of Chevron and Petrobras’ participating interest in the Maromba field to BW Offshore. BW Offshore announced its agreements with Chevron and Petrobras for the acquisition of Maromba field in March.... Continue Reading →
August 14, 2019 Shell received from Ibama environmental license for the acquisition of 3D seismic data in the area of blocks BM-S-54 and Sul de Gato do Mato, both in the Santos Basin. The license, issued on August 1, is valid for seven months and runs until March 2020. Sul do Gato do Mato is... Continue Reading →
Tokyo, August 15, 2019 MODEC, Inc. ("MODEC", Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Yuji Kozai) is pleased to announce that an affiliate of MODEC has issued a project bond in the international capital markets outside Japan to refinance a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel chartered to the TUPI consortium led by Petróleo... Continue Reading →
Aug 14, 2019 A study by Brazil Petroleum Studies (BPS) and Spectrum / TGS identified reservoirs with up to 450 million boe in the Pernambuco-Paraíba Basin. The volume is similar to discoveries such as Barra, in Sergipe-Alagoas (500 million boe), and Pitu, in Rio Grande do Norte (640 million boe). The analysis, which consisted of... Continue Reading →
The global market for floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs) is headed for a major renaissance with as many as 24 FPSO awards expected by 2020, driven to a great degree by Brazil, according to Norwegian energy research and consultancy firm Rystad Energy. South America leads the pack with 12 sanctioned FPSO projects planned... Continue Reading →
High-impact exploration drilling activity increased substantially in the first half of 2019 with 51 exploration wells completed, compared to 36 in the same period in 2018. It’s back to gas though, with gas discoveries up and oil down on 2018, according to market research provider Westwood Global Energy Group. The largest oil discoveries are considered... Continue Reading →
Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has been awarded contracts for its vessels by Total and Equinor for operations in Brazil. Solstad said on Wednesday it had entered into a contract with Total E&P do Brasil for charter of a platform supply vessel for 13 months firm. Total has the option to extend the charter with... Continue Reading →
This tiny nation on the north coast of South America is about to become the world’s newest petrostate—and potentially the richest. In 2015, ExxonMobil made what one of its executives described as a “fairy tale” discovery in the vast Stabroek exploration block off the Guyanese coast. Since then, it’s found so much oil that by... Continue Reading →
