Malaysian oil and gas firm Petronas is preparing to start drilling an offshore well in Mexico. According to an exploration report by its Indonesian partner Medco Energi, Petronas is gearing up to drill the Bacalar-1EXP exploration well. Medco is a partner through its subsidiary Ophir Mexico Operations Block 12. The well will cost $4,417,169 in... Continue Reading →
PETRO RIO CONTRACTING OF RIG FOR FRADE AND WAHOO DRILLINGS
Petro Rio S.A. (“Company” or “PetroRio”) (B3: PRIO3) informs its shareholders and the market in general that it has signed with Ocyan Drilling S.A. a contract to hire the NORBE VI drilling rig for the Frade Field Revitalization Campaign and the Wahoo Field development. The contract will begin in March 2022 and will enable the... Continue Reading →
Decarbonizing Offshore Drilling: FUELSAVE Pens Deal with Seadrill
Germany-based "cleantech" provider FUELSAVE has signed a contract with offshore drilling company Seadrill to deploy its advanced combustion conditioning technology on Seadrill's drillship. The technology promises to reduce primary fuel oil consumption and cut Co2 and GHG emissions from the rig. Seadrill’s 6th generation West Saturn drillship will be fitted with FUELSAVE’s solution FS MARINE+,... Continue Reading →
Report: At Least Three Firms Vying for Petrobras’ Albacora Fields
(Reuters) Petrobras' Albacora oilfields in Brazil are likely to attract at least three buyers despite a roughly one-month delay to let interested parties finalize their bids, four sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as Petrobras is formally known, has been selling off dozens of assets ranging from refineries to pipelines in a... Continue Reading →
Karoon examining options for Neon project offshore Brazil
(OM) Karoon Energy has received notification that Brazil’s ANP has approved its integrated development plan for the Neon and Goiá fields (formerly Echidna and Kangaroo) in the Santos basin offshore Brazil. The plan had been submitted in December 2019, although Karoon is now performing additional engineering studies for Neon in order to optimize the development plan. This... Continue Reading →
Ocyan wins bid and re-contracts Norbe IX rig to Petrobras
(TNPetroleo) The rig is the second to renew its contract this year. The entire company fleet continues with active contracts. Norbe IX, one of Ocyan's five deepwater drilling rigs, was rehired by Petrobras for a period of 1095 days. The new charter and services contract is scheduled for the first quarter of 2022, a few... Continue Reading →
Guyana Relaunches Search for Company to Market Its Crude
(Reuters) Guyana is re-launching a search for a company to market the government's share of crude oil produced off the South American country's coast to make the tender process "simpler and more competitive," the natural resources minister said on Monday. According to the notice published late last week, companies will have until Aug. 3 to submit their... Continue Reading →
Suriname, the Next Offshore Oil Hot Spot?
Offshore drilling in Guyana, mainly by ExxonMobil, has in the past years unearthed more than 9 billion barrels of oil equivalent, making Guyana a place to be when it comes to deepwater exploration, and as of December 2019, production, with multiple FPSOs planned for deployment in the coming years. Explorers in nearby Suriname have been hoping... Continue Reading →
SBM’s new Fast4Ward FPSO hull launched in Chinese yard
Chinese shipyard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding has launched a hull of the latest FPSO of a Fast4Ward design being built for Dutch provider SBM Offshore. On 10 July, the third H1498 ship of the Fast4Ward offshore floating production and storage vessel (FPSO) series built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, was... Continue Reading →
Petrobras signs contract for the sale of the Papa-Terra Field
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on 04/17/2020 and 11/24/2020, informs that it has signed with the company 3R Petroleum Offshore S.A. (3R Offshore) a contract for the sale of the totality of its participation in the Papa-Terra production field, located in the Campos Basin. The amount of the sale... Continue Reading →