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(OE) AIS Bardot, a supplier of subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines, has secured a contract from Saipem for TotalEnergies’ Kamiho deepwater oil and gas project, off Angola. The contract is for the manufacture and supply of three complete hybrid riser lines of 100 meters each. The riser lines will be used to pump seawater to... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Top U.S. oil producer Exxon Mobil and Hess will meet face-to-face on Monday in a court hearing to determine the fate of Chevron's $53 billion deal to buy Hess and with it a prized stake in Guyana's prolific oilfields. The planned acquisition, announced in October 2023, is one of the oil industry's biggest deals in years. It is key... Continue Reading →
– Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that the FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão started production today in the Mero field (Libra block), in the pre-salt Santos Basin, more than two months ahead of schedule in its Business Plan. The platform, chartered by Petrobras from SBM Offshore, has the capacity to produce 180,000 barrels of oil... Continue Reading →
Reuters) - Voters in Suriname, which is on the cusp of a predicted oil boom, will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament, which will later choose the South American country's next president. The contest, marked by fraud allegations, has seen little debate about what the next government, which will hold... Continue Reading →
The Marechal Duque de Caxias platform vessel, installed in the Mero field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, reached peak production yesterday, May 19, with 180 thousand barrels of oil per day (bpd). The ramp-up - the period between the first extraction and the moment when the unit reaches its maximum planned capacity... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Brazilian oil firm Petrobras will have a drill ship ready to make the trip to the northern state of Amapa by the end of the month, three sources close to the matter told Reuters, as the company rushes for a drilling license for the Foz do Amazonas Basin. According to the sources, work to... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazilian environmental agency Ibama said on Monday it approved Petrobras' concept of an emergency plan to assist local fauna in case of an oil spill in the Foz do Amazonas basin, putting the firm closer to a license to drill in the area. The move allows Petrobras (PETR4.SA), opens new tab to conduct a simulation... Continue Reading →
Petrobras has signed an engineering, acquisition, construction and subsea installation (EPCI) contract for the Buzios 11 Project with the company Subsea7, worth R$8.4 billion, as a result of a competitive contracting process. The agreement is expected to generate more than a thousand direct and indirect employees. The contract establishes a minimum requirement of 40% local... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Singapore’s offshore marine solutions company PACC Offshore Services Holdings (POSH), part of the Kuok Maritime Group, has completed the towing of a hull for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit from China to Singapore. The vessel is slated to work at a Brazilian deepwater field with Brazil’s state-owned energy giant, Petrobras. Towed by... Continue Reading →
(OE) Perenco Trinidad & Tobago (T&T), as the operator of the Teak, Samaan and Poui (TSP) fields, has found gas as part of a drilling campaign at the Onyx field, offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The two legs, at the Onyx well and sidetrack in the eastern part of the Onyx field, encountered significant columns of natural gas... Continue Reading →
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