Energy industry engineering and maintenance services company Sparrows Group has secured a two-year contract to provide crane maintenance services onboard Tullow Oil’s FPSO Kwame Nkrumah at the Jubilee offshore oil field in Ghana. Sparrows will be responsible for the maintenance, performance, and reliability of the main deck cranes installed and in operation onboard the FPSO... Continue Reading →
COP27: Big Oil must pay for climate change, poor nations tell rich
(Reuters) - Leaders from poor countries criticized wealthy governments and oil companies for driving global warming, using their speeches on Tuesday at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt to demand that they pay up for damages being inflicting on their economies. Small island states already buffeted by increasingly violent ocean storms and sea-level rise called on oil... Continue Reading →
Enauta Says Production from Atlanta Field Interrupted
Brazilian oil company Enauta said Monday that production from its Atlanta offshore field in Brazil had been interrupted. "The initial assessment is that this is an operational problem on the surface. The current production of the field is 7,500 bbl/day," Enauta said. The Atlanta Field is operated by Enauta, which owns 100% of the asset.... Continue Reading →
BW FPSO stay in Nigeria prolonged
FPSO operator BW Offshore has secured a short-term contract extension for a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel operating in waters offshore Nigeria. BW Offshore disclosed last Friday that it has signed an agreement with Addax Petroleum Exploration (Nigeria) Limited for a six-month extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Sendje Berge. Thanks to this,... Continue Reading →
Mexico’s Pemex Had a Plan to Fix Its Flaring Problem, but Abandoned It
(Reuters) In late 2016, to avoid racking up fines for burning too much natural gas, Mexico's state oil company Pemex struck a deal with the regulator to invest over $3 billion to fix its flaring problem at its most productive set of oil fields. But five years on, the little-publicized project has been abandoned, according... Continue Reading →
Argentina’s Pampa to invest $550 mln in Vaca Muerta shale push next year
(Reuters) - Pampa Energía (PAMP.BA), the third largest gas producer in Argentina's Neuquén basin, will invest $550 million in 2023 to increase its unconventional production from the huge Vaca Muerta shale formation, the firm's president Marcelo Mindlin said. Vaca Muerta, the world's second largest shale gas reserve and fourth for shale oil, is crucial for Argentina... Continue Reading →
Booming Guyana Sets Offshore Oil Auction Under Revamped Fiscal Terms
(Reuters) Guyana, one of the world's hottest oil drilling zones, will offer 14 offshore exploration blocks under terms that "significantly" increase its share of oil revenue, the South American nation's vice president said on Thursday. Officials this week approved an oil lease auction with timing details to be disclosed by the Ministry of Natural Resources.... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on reverse of the injunction of Polo Bahia Terra
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in continuation of the statement released on 06/10/2022, informs that a decision was rendered by the Court of appeal of the State of Rio de Janeiro overturning the previous ruling that granted an injunction that freezed the contractual negotiations with the consortium of companies Petroreconcavo and Eneva concerning to the... Continue Reading →
Pre-salt: Equinor starts drilling in the Bacalhau field
(TN) Equinor Brasil, on behalf of the partners in the Bacalhau project, informs that Seadrill Management has safely started the drilling phase of the field. Drilling activities are being carried out by West Saturn, a rig adapted for subsea depths of up to 3,600 meters. The Bacalhau field is located in the Santos Basin, at... Continue Reading →
PRIO sale of interest in the Manati field
Petro Rio S.A. ("Company" or "PRIO") (B3: PRIO3), informs its shareholders and the market in general that it has signed an agreement with Gas Bridge Storage S.A. for the sale of its 10% interest in the Manati Field. The total amount of the transaction is of R$ 124 million, of which 10% will be paid... Continue Reading →