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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras announces that it has approved, together with its partners Equinor and Repsol Sinopec Brasil, the development concept for block BM-C-33, operated by Equinor, located in the pre-salt layer of the Campos Basin, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The block is about 200 km offshore and has water... Continue Reading →
3R Petroleum Oil and Gas recorded a loss of R$ 147.5 million in the fourth quarter of last year. With the result, the company recorded a total net loss of R$ 172.3 million in 2020. With regard to net revenue, the company recorded R$ 85.2 million in the fourth quarter, with a value of R$... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil has encountered good quality reservoir but only minor oil shows at its exploration well located offshore Suriname. Tullow started drilling operations at the Goliathberg-Voltzberg North prospect (GVN-1) located in Block 47 in late January 2021. Block 47 is part of the Suriname-Guyana Basin. The well was drilled using the Stena Forth drillship.... Continue Reading →
Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF has won long-term contracts in the UK and Guyana for three of its platform supply vessels. In the UK, under the contract starting in April, the large PSV Skandi Gamma will work for Ithaca Energy for a period of two years firm. Ithaca will also have two one-year options to... Continue Reading →
In February 2021, Brazilian oil and natural gas production in the Pre-salt was approximately 2.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe / d). This volume represented 73.14% of the total in the country, the highest percentage of Pre-salt participation in national production ever recorded. Total Brazilian production was 3.55 million boe / d.... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) Vitol Group reaped record profits of around $3 billion last year as the world’s largest independent oil trader surfed the dramatic moves in energy markets, according to people familiar with the matter. The results are the latest indication of the bonanza that oil traders enjoyed in 2020, when the commodity plunged amid a Saudi-Russian price war in... Continue Reading →
Cade approved the acquisition, by PetroReconcavo, of the 12 onshore concessions that form the Remanso Cluster. The transaction is still subject to the approval of the ANP and the transfer, by Petrobras, of the environmental licenses granted by the Institute of the Environment and Water Resources (Inema) Source: PetroleoHoje
Guyana's President Irfaan Ali said on Wednesday that the first phase of the Liza offshore crude project had achieved its intended full production capacity of around 130,000 barrels per day (bpd). Ali told the Guyana Basins Summit that he expected an additional 10 exploration and appraisal wells to be drilled off the South American country's... Continue Reading →
Engineering and maintenance services specialist Sparrows Group has secured one contract renewal and two extensions, worth a seven-figure sum, in Angola to support major operators in the deepwater region. According to Saprrows’ statement on Wednesday, the first award is a three-year renewal to continue with the planned and corrective maintenance of all lifting equipment used... Continue Reading →
Singapore’s Keppel shipyard has reached a major milestone in the construction of the SBM Offshore-owned Liza Unity FPSO with the completion of the topsides lifting campaign. The China-built Fast4Ward FPSO hull arrived in Singapore in January 2020. In November 2020, Keppel started the topside integration phase on the FPSO. SBM Offshore reported on Tuesday that the topsides lifting campaign... Continue Reading →
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