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(OE) Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta has decided to stop production from the Petrojarl I floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) to perform modifications related to selected equipment maintenance after inspections at the process plant at the Atlanta field, offshore Brazil. According to Enauta, Atlanta field production is expected to be resumed in the... Continue Reading →
(OM) The Zama Unit partners Wintershall Dea, Pemex (operator), Talos Energy and Harbour Energy have awarded the front-end engineering and design contract (FEED) for the development of the Zama oil field to the French engineering company DORIS. The FEED work will be based on the scope of the Unit Development Plan approved by the Mexican Hydrocarbon Commission... Continue Reading →
(OE) Viridien, formerly CGG, has made a sale of its Marlin vessel monitoring and alert system to ExxonMobil Guyana to support its offshore operations in Guyana. The sale was made through Viridien’s Sensing and Monitoring business line, marketed under the Sercel brand. As part of the wider Sercel Marlin software suite for optimizing offshore operations,... Continue Reading →
(OE) Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has secured multiple contracts with Petrobras, whose combined value is approximately $240 million (NOK 2.6 billion). The contracts are scheduled to start in the second half of 2024 and first half of 2025. Petrobras has contracted the construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Poseidon and two anchor handling tug... Continue Reading →
(OM) Development drilling has started at the Fénix Field, 60 km offshore Tierra del Fuego, southern Argentina. The jackup Noble Regina Allen is stationed alongside the new Fénix production platform, which was installed in February. Operator Total Austral has commissioned three development wells to be drilled and completed over the next months. Once online, the production will head through... Continue Reading →
Oceaneering announced this morning (10) that it had signed two new and important contracts with Petrobras, which provide for the supply of up to 362 kilometers of steel tube umbilicals and thermoplastic electro-hydraulic umbilicals. The agreements also include the supply of associated subsea distribution hardware for use in offshore projects in Brazil. Manufacturing of the... Continue Reading →
(OE) U.S. oilfield services giant Baker Hughes has secured a contract from Brazil state-owned oil and gas major Petrobras for workover and plug and abandonment (P&A) services in pre-salt and post-salt fields offshore Brazil. The multi-year project, set to start in the first half of 2025, will be managed with Baker Hughes’ integrated solutions portfolio... Continue Reading →
(PN) PRIO released its operational data for May this week. The company recorded a production of 88.7 thousand barrels per day of oil equivalent, which represents a drop of 4.4% compared to the previous month's result (92.7 thousand barrels per day).(PN) According to the company, the Frade field had its production impacted due to the... Continue Reading →
To improve the efficiency and safety of deep-water oil and gas activities, Petrobras and Curtiss-Wright have entered into a technological cooperation agreement to design a fully electric, highly reliable subsea pumping system with far less dependency on the production platform. The new equipment produced by the partnership will reduce vessel costs, enable production through long... Continue Reading →
(Offshore-energy.biz) UK-headquartered CRP Subsea, part of AIS, has won a deal with an undisclosed energy technology company, which enables three offshore oil field projects in Brazil’s Santos Basin to find their way to the subsea firm’s order book for deepwater buoyancy solutions. While disclosing the award of a contract it describes as significant, CRP Subsea explains... Continue Reading →
