(OE) Yinson Production has placed $1.035 billion senior secured notes to refinance the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Anna Nery, working for Petrobras in the Marlim field, offshore Brazil. The successful pricing of $1.035 billion 144A/Reg S non-recourse, senior secured notes, was issued by Yinson Boronia Production, which owns and operates the FPSO... Continue Reading →
Hess shareholders sign off on $53 billion sale to Chevron
(Reuters) - Hess shareholders on Tuesday approved the company's $53 billion merger with No. 2 U.S. oil company Chevron (CVX.N), according to preliminary results of the vote. The merger required a majority vote to approve the deal by a majority of Hess' 308 million shares outstanding to pass. The company did not immediately provide the vote tally.... Continue Reading →
BW Energy progressing Maromba development, Golfinho drilling program offshore Brazil
(OM) BW Energy plans to take FID later this year on two new infill wells at the Golfinho Field in the Espirito Santos Basin offshore Brazil, the company said in a results statement. The GLF-51 oil well and the GLF-50 gas well should double production from the field in 2027. BW Energy reported first-quarter 2024 stable production... Continue Reading →
Platform ship Marechal Duque de Caxias arrives in Brazil on its way to the pre-salt layer
The platform ship Marechal Duque de Caxias arrived in Brazil today, 05/27, from China, heading for the Mero field in the pre-salt Santos Basin. The platform of the FPSO type (floating production, storage, and transfer unit) can produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil and compress up to 12 million cubic meters of gas, all... Continue Reading →
WoodMac values 10-FPSO development offshore Guyana at US$150 billion
(OilNow) Luiz Hayum, a principal analyst with Wood Mackenzie’s Latin America upstream research team, sees Guyana’s oil bounty raking in huge sums for the ExxonMobil-led consortium and the government. “Our valuation for Stabroek’s ten-FPSO development is over US$150 billion at US$65/barrel Brent prices split between the government and the three block partners,” Hayum said in... Continue Reading →
BP, EOG Resources in Talks to Jointly Develop Trinidad Gas Field
(Reuters) Oil major BP and U.S. shale producer EOG Resources are in discussions to jointly develop a natural gas field off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, the British company said. The field holds just under 1 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas, but will eventually be tied back to another BP discovery, bringing... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Makes FID to Advance Two Oil Projects Offshore Brazil
(OE) Petrobras, together with its partners, has made the final investment decision (FID) for the second development phase of Atapu and Sépia fields, located in the prolific pre-salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The Atapu field has been producing since 2020 through the P-70 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, with a production capacity of... Continue Reading →
MODEC: Keel laying for Guyana-bound FPSO hull done weeks ahead of schedule
(OffshoreEnergy.biz) Japanese FPSO operator MODEC has achieved a new milestone by completing the keel laying for the construction of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) hull, which is destined for ExxonMobil’s fifth oil development in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. A ceremony to mark the beginning of construction for the FPSO Errea Wittu was held on February 2,... Continue Reading →
Guyana Could Reallocate Gas Areas if Exxon Does Not Move Project Forward
(Reuters) An Exxon Mobil-led oil consortium will need to decide by October whether it will go ahead and develop a large natural gas find off the coast of Guyana, the country's vice president said on Thursday. The government has been pressing for a bonanza from mostly untapped gas reserves found by the Exxon-led group. The... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s 3R and Enauta to follow Petrobras into Foz do Amazonas exploration
(Reuters) - The oil firm to be created from the merger of Brazil's 3R Petroleum and Enauta wants to explore the Foz do Amazonas' basin if state-run firm Petrobras finds oil there, its future CEO Decio Oddone told Reuters. Enauta has rights over an oil block in Foz do Amazonas, considered the most promising area in Brazil's so-called... Continue Reading →