Following a “rough landing” by the helicopter owned by CHC’s Brazilian unit, BHS, a video emerged this week showing its landing on the rig’s helideck. The rig is located in the Santos Basin, in the Búzios field offshore Brazil. In an e-mailed statement to Offshore Energy Today on Tuesday, a CHC spokesperson confirmed that the Sikorsky... Continue Reading →
Siem Helix 1 Commences Operations in Brazil – Press Release
April 19, 2017 05:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX) announced today that the Siem Helix 1 has commenced operations offshore Brazil and is on contract for Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. The vessel will be performing well intervention services under a multi-year contract with Petrobras. We have agreed with... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea announce the delivery of Skandi Búzios and commencement of contract with Petrobras
TechnipFMC (NYSE and Euronext: FTI) and DOF Subsea (DOF) announce that the Skandi Búzios, a pipelay support vessel (PLSV) owned by the joint venture formed between TechnipFMC (50%) and DOF (50%), commenced its 8-year charter contract with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), as scheduled on April 13th, 2017. Skandi Búzios is the sistership of the Skandi Açu, which... Continue Reading →
Sale Process of BM-S-8 Exploration Block, CARCARA
Rio de Janeiro, April 17, 2017 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that became aware today of the decision by the 2nd Federal District Court (Sergipe state) that granted an injunction to suspend the transfer of Petrobras’ stake in the BM-S-8 exploration block ("Carcará Field") to Statoil Brasil Óleo e Gás Ltda. and the... Continue Reading →
PRODUCTION OF TUBARÃO MARTELO GROWS 10.4% IN MARCH
The month of March brought a better operating result for OGPar, which had an increase in its oil production in the period. In all, the company closed the interval with about 242,6 thousand barrels. The number represents a gain of 10.4% compared to the previous month. In February, the company's monthly output was 219.6 thousand... Continue Reading →
Mitsui’s new FPSO hull concept gets approval in principle
Japan’s Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) has obtained a Bureau Veritas approval in principle (AIP) for the new generation noah-FPSO Hull and associated design and construction methods. Mitsui said on Thursday that the AIP by Bureau Veritas follows approval from the American Bureau of Shipping and that it provided assurance of the feasibility and reliability... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Production of oil and natural gas in March
Rio de Janeiro, April 13,2017 - Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that its total production of oil and natural gas in March was 2.74 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), of which, 2.61 million boed produced in Brazil and 130,000 boed produced abroad. Average oil production in the country was 2.12... Continue Reading →
CNPE approves bidding for four areas in the 3rd Round of the pre-salt in November
The National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) approved the holding of the 3rd Round of pre-salt areas under the distribution regime in November of this year, with the bidding areas of the Pau-Brasil, Peroba, Alto de Cabo Frio-Oeste and Alto de Cabo Frio-Central. During the meeting, the CNPE approved a multi-year calendar for ten rounds... Continue Reading →
Brazil to get data for revision of large Petrobras contract in May
Brazil's oil industry regulator ANP will submit next month the calculations to base the revision of a large contract with Petrobras known as the Transfer of Rights, the Energy Minister Fernando Coelho Filho said on Monday. The contract, through which the government exchanged in 2010 exploratory rights over some oil areas in its coast for... Continue Reading →
Bassoe: After years of plummeting activity, offshore Brazil is looking better again
Bassoe: After years of plummeting activity, offshore Brazil is looking better again | Offshore Energy Today http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/wp-content/themes/navingo20/js/html5.js http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/wp-content/themes/navingo20/js/respond.min.js For nearly a decade, Petrobras had more offshore drilling rigs under contract than any other operator in the world. With ambitions to grow their late-cycle offshore oil discoveries into an empire that would fund the country for... Continue Reading →
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