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A new giant of the seas will soon come into operation. The FPSO Almirante Barroso left this week from the BrasFELS shipyard heading for the Buzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The FPSO has been at the shipyard since October last year for commissioning activities and final acceptance tests. The vessel was converted in... Continue Reading →
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has made adjustments to monetary penalties for oil and gas companies, implementing the 2023 inflation adjustments for the maximum daily civil monetary penalties contained in BOEM regulations in accordance with Federal law. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management made the final rule announcement on Tuesday, 14 February... Continue Reading →
APA Corporation APA has successfully drilled and flow-tested the Sapakara South-2 (SPS-2) appraisal well, the second appraisal well to test the previously announced discovery in the area. The well is located about 4.6 kilometers south of the Sapakara South-1 (SPS-1) appraisal well. It has encountered approximately 118 feet of high-quality net oil pay in the Campano-Maastrichtian... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has signed a contract with the consortium formed by Alcatel Submarine Networks and Maersk for the construction and installation of the Permanent Seismic Monitoring System (PSMS) in the Mero field, in the Santos Basin. The Mero PSMS project has unprecedented features in Brazil and incorporates state-of-the-art 4D... Continue Reading →
(TN) Equinor has started the offshore installation campaign in the Bacalhau field, located in the Santos Basin. The work is performed under an integrated EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract with SIA - Subsea Integration Alliance, an alliance between OneSubsea® and Subsea7. Seven Pacific, Subsea7's construction/flex-lay vessel, capable of operating at depths of up... Continue Reading →
(OED) Malaysia’s FPSO operator Yinson has shared an update on the developments regarding the conversion and upgrade of a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which will operate for Enauta offshore Brazil. Back in January 2022, Enauta entered into an agreement to purchase the FPSO OSX-2 for the Definitive System (DS) of the Atlanta field and this purchase deal was closed... Continue Reading →
(TN) Ocyan celebrates the successful completion of the first stage of the decommissioning project in a contract signed with Petrobras to operate in the Campos Basin. The vessel chartered with Solstad is already in the Port of Vitória (ES), where it will unload the first equipment removed from the seabed. Part of it will be... Continue Reading →
(PN) Earlier this week, Petrobras launched a new tender for the charter of up to four drilling rigs. The tender is divided into three non-excluding lots and the opening of the envelopes with the proposals is scheduled, in principle, for the 17th of March. According to the rules of the tender, only the 13 companies... Continue Reading →
By David Boggs, Energy Maritime Associates (OM) The floating production construction market continued to grow in 2022, maintaining a rebound that began in 2021. As we enter a new year, the industry sentiment remains buoyant, with most respondents optimistic about the future. Recently, Energy Maritime Associates conducted its tenth annual Global Floating Production Industry Survey, which... Continue Reading →
(epbr) Equinor has delayed, from 2024 to 2025, the forecast for the start of production in the Bacalhau field, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin, said the company’s president, Anders Opedal. The pandemic, according to the executive, affected the project schedule as a whole in the global oil and gas industry. The Norwegian oil... Continue Reading →
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