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(Portos e Navios) Wilson Sons signed a contract with TotalEnergies EP Brasil for logistical support for the drilling campaign in Block C-M-541, located in the Campos Basin. The project will be served by Base Rio, the Company's offshore support base, located in the port region of Rio de Janeiro, in Guanabara Bay. TotalEnergies expanded its... Continue Reading →
The board of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) approved a resolution that will reduce the collection of royalties for small and medium-sized oil companies operating in the country. With the new standard, the new percentages charged will be 5% for small companies and 7.5% for medium companies. As is to be expected, the measure is... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) approved the transfer of 100% of the Petrobras stake in the Miranga cluster in Bahia, to PetroReconcavo. The regulatory agency also gave the green light for the full sale of Polo Peroa, in the shallow waters of Espírito Santo, to 3R Petroleum. As a reminder, the sale of the... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has awarded Norwegian offshore seismic data acquisition firm PGS a contract for a 3D survey offshore Suriname. PGS' 104.2 meters long Ramform Tethys seismic vessel is scheduled to start the acquisition during the fourth quarter of 2021, and it is planned to complete in the first quarter of 2022. The vessel... Continue Reading →
Vessel utilization in the offshore oil and gas seismic data acquisition sector has reached pre-pandemic levels in the third quarter of 2021, Rystad Energy has found. Rystad, a Norway-based energy industry intelligence firm, said that, after several devastating quarters caused by the pandemic, the seismic fleet’s hibernation is now over, with around 68% of the fleet... Continue Reading →
BW Offshore may acquire another asset in Petrobras' divestment program. Industry sources confirmed to PetroleoHoje that the Norwegian oil company was recently selected as the preferred bider for the Golfinho cluster, a deep-water package in the Espírito Santo Basin. Although BW Offshore does not comment on the subject, the company's proposal would have been around... Continue Reading →
Harbour Energy, a London-listed oil firm created through a merger between Chrysaor and Premier Oil, has decided to exit the Sea Lion oil field development in the Falkland Islands. The company has a 60 percent stake in the oil field, with Rockhopper Exploration holding the remaining 40 percent stake. The field was discovered in 2010 by Rockhopper,... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - U.S. oil majors Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Chevron Corp (CVX.N) have failed to meet a core transparency standard set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a global anti-corruption body on which the companies have board seats, EITI said on Wednesday. Exxon and Chevron have declined to publicly disclose taxes and other payments they have made to... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) Petrobras hopes to make progress soon with preparations for the start of production of the FPSO P-71 in the Itapu field, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. The state-owned company recently asked the Brazilian Institute for the Environment (Ibama) for a license to operate the platform vessel – which should start operating in... Continue Reading →
The construction of the world’s largest floating wind farm Kincardine, in the UK, is now complete, marking the start of the long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) signed in 2018 between Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Ltd. (KOWL’s) joint venture and Statkraft. The floating wind farm features Principle Power-developed Windfloat semi-submersible foundations on which five MHI Vestas V164-9.5... Continue Reading →
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