Italian contractor Rosetti Marino has been awarded a contract by TotalEnergies for the construction of the Fenix project platform, which will be installed 60 km off the coast of Terra del Fuego in southern Argentina. This comes days after TotalEnergies announced a final investment decision for the Fenix gas development, the world’s southernmost gas project. TotalEnergies and... Continue Reading →
Saipem Nets 1B Euros Worth of Contracts in Ivory Coast
Italian oilfield services giant Saipem has won two new contracts in Ivory Coast worth around one billion euros in total. The contracts have been assigned by ENI Cote d’Ivoire-Petroci consortium for the Baleine Phase 1 Project, for the development of the oil and gas field offshore Ivory Coast located at a 1,200 m water depth.... Continue Reading →
IMF urges caution as oil-rich Guyana’s economic growth nears 60%
(Reuters) - Guyana's economic growth could reach close to 60% this year, the International Monetary Fund said in a statement on Tuesday, urging cautious policies even as the tiny South American nation benefits from surging oil production. "Overall real GDP growth rate is projected to be 57.8% in 2022," the IMF said in a statement... Continue Reading →
Petrobras ready for pre-operational tests in the equatorial margin
(U) Petrobras is confident of getting over the final hurdle and obtaining environmental permits to drill at a location close to the maritime frontier of French Guiana Brazil's Petrobras is set to conduct a pre-operational simulation as the final step to obtaining environmental permits to drill a landmark wildcat in the northern Brazilian offshore play... Continue Reading →
Brazil oil production to increase 70% by end of the decade, says minister
(U) The Brazilian government forecasts the country’s oil production will grow 70% by the end of the decade, propelled by multibillion-dollar investments from state-controlled company Petrobras and other operators. Brazil is recovering faster when compared to the world’s largest economies, Mines and Energy Minister Adolfo Sachsida said Monday during the opening ceremony of the Rio... Continue Reading →
Final investment decision on Equinor’s next Brazilian floater to come ‘soon’
(U) Equinor is set to sanction development of the giant Pao de Acucar gas condensate field on Block BM-C-33 in Brazil’s Campos basin, according to an executive with the Norwegian major. "It will be soon," Ana Serrano Onate, Equinor's senior vice president for petroleum technology, told Upstream when quizzed about the timing of a long-awaited... Continue Reading →
Taiya Renewable Energy, BW Ideol in Floating Wind Pact
Taiya Renewable Energy on Tuesday announced a joint development of a floating offshore wind pipeline including a 50 MW floating wind pilot-project and commercial-scale projects offshore Taiwan with floating wind specialist BW Ideol. "This cooperation is the first project of a Taiwanese developer to announce its entry into floating pilot wind projects. It is also... Continue Reading →
Exclusive: Mexican regulator has no record of Pemex reporting methane leak, documents show
(Reuters) - Mexico's environmental regulator has no records of state oil company Pemex reporting a methane leak last December at the country's top oil field, according to the regulator's response to a freedom of information request filed by Reuters. "There are no records" of "a possible incident at the asset Ku-Maloob-Zaap in December 2021," regulator... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil: $13 trillion of oil and gas investments will be needed by 2050
(U) US supermajor ExxonMobil expects oil and natural gas will remain an important part of the energy mix in the decades to come, in order to meet an expected rise in energy demand around the world. Third-party studies estimate that $13 trillion of new oil and gas investments will be required by 2050 to meet... Continue Reading →
Karoon set to begin development drilling at the Patola field
Australia’s oil and gas company Karoon Energy has decided to postpone intervention activities on the fourth well at a field, located offshore Brazil. As a result, a Maersk Drilling-owned semi-submersible rig, which was used during the three-well intervention campaign, will now carry out drilling operations on another Brazilian field for Karoon. Back in April 2021,... Continue Reading →