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Brazilian oil company Petrobras is seeking to auction off a 2010-built ultra-deepwater drillship. The company is planning to sell the Vitoria 10000 drillship via an international electronic auction in September. The Vitoria 10000 is a sixth-generation drillship built by Samsung, under the Samsung 10000 design. The rig – initially owned by Schahin – later renamed to... Continue Reading →
July 24, 2019 Petrobras is expected to start drilling a well in the Sagitario prospectus next quarter, Repsol said in its financial report released Wednesday. The initial forecast was that the activity would take place in the second quarter, but the schedule was postponed. Sagitario was awarded in the seventh round of ANP bids to... Continue Reading →
July 24, 2019 Another important pre-salt project is starting to move forward. Petrobras recently published the call for charter for the FPSO to be used in Itapu, in the Transfer of Rights area. Bid opening is scheduled for December 22 this year and international bidding will be by closed envelop mode. The charter agreement will... Continue Reading →
July 24, 2019 ExxonMobil began the first technical visits to some of the rigs offered in its bid for chartering a drilling unit. The oil company's preliminary list includes at least five drillships: Ensco's DS-9, Constellation's Amaralina Star and Brava Star, and Seadrill's West Tellus and West Saturn. The vessels were offered at the best... Continue Reading →
July 24, 2019 The ANP is working to include deepwater assets in the permanent offer regime, the agency's managing director, Dedio Oddone, said on Wednesday. Among them are the Piranema field, which is part of Petrobras' divestment plan, and Moréia, returned by the state company to the ANP. During the inauguration of a robot for... Continue Reading →
July 24, 2019 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras announces that today it signed two contracts for the sale of upstream assets in shallow waters in Campos and Santos Basins, in the total amount of US$ 1.5 billion (about R$ 5.7 billion). The transactions refer to: the sale of 100% of its interest in the Pampo... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC’s flagship deepwater pipelay and construction vessel Deep Blue is embarking on a major subsea project laying pipeline on the Peregrino Phase 2 Project in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. TechnipFMC was awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract by Equinor, then Statoil, for the Peregrino Phase II Project back in September 2017. The... Continue Reading →
July 23, 2019 The ANP approved a two-year extension of the first phase of exploration of blocks CE-M-603 and POT-M-475, located in the Ceará and Potiguar basins, respectively. Both are operated by ExxonMobil in partnership with Azibras. With this, the first exploratory period of the assets will expire in July, in the case of CE-M-603,... Continue Reading →
July 23, 2019 Petrobras has launched the tender documents for the chartering of the Itapu and Mero 3 FPSOs, Santos Basin production systems designed to go into production in 2023 and 2024, respectively. As in the previous cases of Libra production units, Mero 3 is conducted under the letter of invitation regime. Petrobras demands an... Continue Reading →
July 22, 2019 Operators are expected to drill approximately 250 development wells by 2020, a quarter of which (65) in the Santos Basin, according to ANP projections. The other basins with development commitments planned for next year are Potiguar (53), Sergipe (46), Campos (41), Espírito Santo (29), Recôncavo (13), Parnaíba (3) and from Alagoas (3).... Continue Reading →
