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zoomAmpelmann E-type gangway; Image source: Ampelmann Dutch offshore access solutions provider Ampelmann has been awarded a contract by SBM Offshore in support of an FPSO maintenance campaign in the Espírito Santo Basin offshore Brazil. Ampelmann said on Monday that the contract entails the provision of an E-type gangway system in January 2017, with a scope... Continue Reading →
zoom Brazilian oil company Petrobras has awarded the Brazilian-built pipe-lay support vessel (PLSV), Skandi Vitória, a contract of 532 days. The vessel is owned through a joint venture between the Norwegian shipping company DOF and the French oilfield services provider Technip. DOF said on Monday that the contract with Petrobras will start in January. Skandi... Continue Reading →
Subsea engineering, construction and services company Subsea 7 on Monday announced the early termination of the day-rate contract for its pipe-lay support vessel (PLSV), Seven Mar. The 2001-built vessel was working for Petrobras, offshore Brazil, and the termination is effective from January 16, 2017. The contract was due to expire in 2018 and as... Continue Reading →
Statoil announced the purchase of 50% participation in two blocks in the Espirito Santo Basin, BM – ES 40 and 41, from OGX and Sinochem. Statoil will operate the blocks jointly with Perenco (50%), a UK based independent operator. Statoil now holds 11 oil concessions in Brazil, 7 in the Espirito Santo Basin. Last year... Continue Reading →
Press Release / Fernando Coelho Filho Fernando Coelho Filho, Minister of Mines and Energy, said today (12) that the government expects to raise between R $ 3.5 billion and R $ 4.5 billion with the completion of the 14th round of bidding for oil and natural gas exploration blocks and the second Round... Continue Reading →
Halliburton pens deepwater tech deal with Petrobras | Offshore Energy Today zoom Oilfield service provider Halliburton has signed a technology cooperation agreement with Brazilian oil company Petrobras for advanced collaboration in deepwater pre-salt and mature fields. Halliburton said that the multi-year agreement would facilitate the development of innovative solutions in geophysics, drilling and completions, reservoir... Continue Reading →
The consortium of the promising pre-salt Libra area in the Santos Basin needs to be released from the current local content obligation so that the pilot platform for the project, scheduled for 2020, will be tendered, according to Solange Guedes, Petrobras Exploration and Production director. The executive is confident in a waiver from the... Continue Reading →
Rio de Janeiro, January 11, 2017 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras reports that the Company’s average oil production in Brazil reached an annual historical record in 2016, at 2.144.256 barrels per day (bpd), 0.75% above the results for the prior year and in line with the 2,145 thousand bpd target forecast for the... Continue Reading →
Publication in the Federal Official Gazette indicates the return by Petrobras and Repsol Sinopec do Brasil of the oil and natural gas exploration and production concession for the Piracucá field. The field, located in shallow waters of the Santos Basin, was acquired by the companies in the second round of ANP bids in 2000,... Continue Reading →
Dec 27, 2016 Siem Offshore took delivery of the second intervention tanker of its fleet. It is the Siem Helix 2, which will now join the Siem Helix 1 - both chartered by the US-based Helix Energy Solutions. The US company will provide offshore well intervention services in Brazil to Petrobrás. Siem Helix 2... Continue Reading →
