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(OE) TotalEnergies has signed an agreement with Shell Brasil Petróleo to exchange its 20% non-operated interest in the Gato do Mato project for an additional 3% interest in Lapa, a producing offshore oil field. Through the agreement TotalEnergies will increase its interest in the operated Lapa offshore field to 48% by acquiring an additional 3%... Continue Reading →
(oilnow.gy) Just across the Corentyne River, Suriname is watching. It has seen Guyana go from oil discovery to oil power in less than a decade, GDP booming, rigs multiplying and an international attention growing. But where Guyana surged ahead, Suriname is moving with caution. Guyana’s momentum was driven by multiple factors: a stable investment climate, a business-friendly... Continue Reading →
(oilnow.gy) Since ExxonMobil’s historic Liza discovery in 2015, the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana has yielded a string of world-class oil finds. While Liza remains the biggest discovery to date, several subsequent wells have encountered major oil-bearing reservoirs. Here is a ranking of the top discoveries after Liza, based on the thickness of high-quality oil or... Continue Reading →
(CNN) Shell expects to drill an exploratory oil well in the Pelotas Basin, a new exploration frontier, in 2028, said Lucio Prevatti, the company's general manager for exploration and development in Brazil, during an event in Rio de Janeiro. According to him, Brazil needs to find new producing areas to replenish its reserves and meet... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Portugal's Galp expects to boost its oil and gas production in Brazil by around 40% over the next few years, when the promising offshore field Bacalhau reaches peak output, executive board member Nuno Bastos told reporters. Galp produces 110,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in Brazil through a 70%-30% joint venture with... Continue Reading →
In the final week and a half of April 2025, Guyana’s offshore oil production witnessed an uptick, with both the Liza 2 and Payara projects averaging approximately 260,000 barrels per day (b/d) each. This indicates that ExxonMobil, the operator of the Stabroek Block, has begun tapping into the optimized production capacities of these developments. ExxonMobil... Continue Reading →
(oilnow.gy) Wood Mackenzie projects that the three exploration prospects currently being developed in Suriname’s offshore basin this year hold a combined total of approximately 900 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe). The wells are Macaw-1, Korikori-1 and Akaru Deep-1; each hold 300 mmboe. Macaw-1 is in Suriname’s Block 64. Spanning 6,262 km² and located 250... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Netherlands-based SBM Offshore, a provider of the design, construction, installation, and operation of offshore floating facilities, has crossed off the task list the mooring of its new floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which will enable the start of production from ExxonMobil’s fourth oil project in the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana.... Continue Reading →
(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 →
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