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Norwegian shipyard Green Yard Kleven AS has secured a retrofit project with Brazilian offshore vessel owner Oceanica. This is the fourth contract signed with the same shipowner that includes the reactivation and rebuilding of offshore ships bought from Norwegian shipowners. The vessel, named Oceanicasub X, is a 78-meter anchor handling vessel which will be rebuilt... Continue Reading →
Bourbon Marine & Logistics has partnered with the Guyanese company Tethys Marine & Logistics, which becomes a 51% shareholder of the Bourbon Guyana Joint Venture. "With 75% Guyanese Directors, Bourbon Guyana thus becomes the first indigenous Offshore Support Vessels operator, fully compliant with the most recent local content regulations," Bourbon Marine & Logistics said. "With a... Continue Reading →
BW Energy on Monday announced it has achieved first oil from the Hibiscus / Ruche Phase 1 development in the Dussafu license offshore Gabon. "Production performance from the first well has been in line with expectations and is currently stabilized at approximately 6,000 barrels per day," the Oslo-listed E&P company said in a statement. "We... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil company Enauta Participações has concluded the production ramp-up of the new well in its Atlanta field offshore Brazil., Enauta had said earlier this week that it had connected the new well 7-ATL-5H-RJS (“5H”) to the FPSO Petrojarl I. The production was at the time still in the production ramp-up phase, at around... Continue Reading →
(OM) Petrobras has been a key driver of a tightening ultra-deepwater rig market, accounting for more than a quarter of all term floater contracts over the past two years, according to Evercore ISI’s latest Offshore Oracle report. From a rig count of 19 currently (up from 17 a year ago), Petrobras’ rig count is expected... Continue Reading →
U.S. offshore engineering and construction services firm McDermott has secured a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with Shell for a gas development project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Under the contract, McDermott will provide comprehensive FEED services for a wellhead platform, export pipeline system, shore approach, midstream pipeline and onshore control room for the Manatee gas... Continue Reading →
Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) is setting the wheels into motion to launch a program, which would step up investments in oil and natural gas exploration to promote regional development and foster national production while making Brazil the fourth largest oil producer in the world. To this end, Brazil’s Minister of Mines and... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) -- Jean Paul Prates, the head of Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, isn’t deterred by the world’s energy transition. He says Latin America’s largest producer should keep increasing fossil fuel output for decades to come. “We will get market share,” Prates, chief executive officer of Petrobras, said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro. “We... Continue Reading →
(PN) Exploration of new oil wells in Brazil will receive around US$ 1.5 billion in investments in 2023. The forecast was revealed this week by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), which published the data in a new panel dynamic on contracts in the exploration phase. The largest share of funds (US$ 1.1 billion) will be... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Mexican state oil company Pemex and a consortium led by U.S. firm Talos Energy (TALO.N) delivered a development plan for the Zama oil field to Mexico's oil regulator on Thursday, Pemex said. The plan includes two offshore platforms and the drilling of 46 wells, as well as the transportation of oil and gas to the... Continue Reading →
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