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(Reuters) - Guyana is looking for a company willing to build a natural gas liquids (NGL) facility as part of efforts to monetize its offshore gas reserves, according to a notice published by the South American government on Sunday. The storage and offloading facility would receive about 4,200 barrels per day (bpd) of liquids from... Continue Reading →
(oilnow.gy) Brazil’s Foz do Amazonas Basin is being viewed by top industry players as that country’s top offshore frontier opportunity, with Horizon Engage reporting that aggressive bidding there signals strong private-sector belief in the Equatorial Margin as “akin to Guyana’s Stabroek field”. According to Horizon Engage Senior Advisor for Brazil and Energy Transition, Mark Langevin, consortia including Petrobras, ExxonMobil,... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) The steel-cutting ceremony for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit destined for a field offshore Brazil operated by the Brazilian subsidiary of the U.K.-headquartered energy giant Shell has been held at the Sumitomo Heavy Industries’ Yokosuka shipyard in Japan. Based on a social media post by Cristiano Pinto da Costa, President of Shell Brasil,... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies has signed an agreement to acquire the 25% interest held by Moeve, formerly known as CEPSA, in Block 53, offshore Suriname, joining APA and Petronas as partner in the license. Block 53 lies directly east of Block 58, where TotalEnergies and its partners made the final investment decision (FID) for the GranMorgu development in October 2024.... Continue Reading →
(OE) Shearwater Geoservices has secured a 3D marine seismic acquisition contract by TotalEnergies in Sao Tome & Principe on the STP-02 Block. The two-month exploration survey off the coast of Western Africa will start early in the third quarter of 2025 using the SW Empress, one of the world’s most capable 3D seismic vessels. TotalEnergies... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Shell denied that it was in talks to buy BP after the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the oil major was in early discussions over a takeover of its British rival. "No talks are taking place. As we have said many times before, we are sharply focused on capturing the value in... Continue Reading →
SBM Offshore announces that it has signed an operations and maintenance contract with TotalEnergies EP Suriname B.V., an affiliate of TotalEnergies, for the FPSO GranMorgu, as part of the field development project located in Block 58 in Suriname. The operations and maintenance contract covers the operation readiness phase before first oil as well as the... Continue Reading →
Wilson Sons, recognized for its extensive experience of more than 187 years, has signed a new agreement with TotalEnergies EP Brasil to provide logistics support to oil production activities in the Lapa Field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, through one of its Offshore Support Bases — the Rio Base — located in... Continue Reading →
Reuters) - Exxon Mobil and Chevron on Tuesday took their first steps toward exploring for oil in Brazil's Foz do Amazonas basin, scooping up offshore blocks auctioned by the country in the promising but environmentally sensitive area. The bids came as state-run Petrobras touted signs of breaking a stalemate on licensing in the offshore region near the mouth... Continue Reading →
(OE) FourPhase, a solids and production performance specialist for the oil and gas industry, has secured a master service agreement (MSA) with Shell Trinidad and Tobago, for work on its topside offshore oil and gas platforms in the Caribbean. The MSA involves sand management and production optimization. FourPhase also signed two other contracts in the... Continue Reading →
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