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Over the past four months we have been flooded by news of just how badly the offshore rig market has been hit during the double whammy of the Corona pandemic and oil price fallout. We witnessed what seemed like a never-ending wave of contract cancellations coupled with increasing numbers of contract options being declined, along... Continue Reading →
Guyana has re-launched a search for a company to market the government's share of the crude produced at the offshore Liza project, operated by Exxon Mobil Corp, according to a notice published in the South American country's newspapers. President Irfaan Ali's government scrapped a previous, similar process initiated by Ali's predecessor shortly after taking office in August.... Continue Reading →
Exxon Mobil Corp is limiting output at its flagship offshore project in Guyana to 100,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) due to more issues with the reinjection of natural gas, the South American country's environmental regulator said on Friday. Exxon, which operates the Stabroek block in a consortium with Hess Corp and China's CNOOC Ltd, had initially planned... Continue Reading →
Rio de Janeiro, August 21 , 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 08/26/2019, informs that it signed today with SPE Rio Ventura S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3R Petroleum e Participações S.A., a contract for the sale of its entire interest in eight E&P onshore fields, denominated Rio... Continue Reading →
Aug 21, 2020 Total, together with its partners, will invest in the third phase of the Mero project in the Libra Block, located 180 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin. Scheduled to start operating in 2024, Mero 3 FPSO1 will have the capacity to process... Continue Reading →
Dutch offshore installation and construction company Heerema Marine Contractors has installed Pemex's Yaxche-C jacket and topside in Mexico, under a contract awarded by Cotemar. Heerema used its 'most experienced vessel' semi-submersible crane vessel Balder to carry out the operation in what was its first project for Cotemar. Balder has been in operation for 42 years now. Continue reading
Premier Oil said on Thursday it had agreed to terms for a long-term refinancing of its debt facilities, including $300 million of new equity and an extension to its credit maturities, after posting a first-half loss on weak crude prices. The British company said $2.9 billion of gross committed debt facilities would be refinanced with... Continue Reading →
Aug 20, 2020 Equinor started licensing process with Ibama for the offshore wind farms Aracatu I and Aracatu II, with 2 GW in each and the possibility of expansion to 2.33 GW. The plan is to install the first wind farm on the coast of Rio de Janeiro and the second, between the states of... Continue Reading →
Aug 20, 2020 Eneva's exploration work in the Parnaíba Basin is going full steam ahead. Now, the company has started drilling a well (4-ENV-14-MA) in block PN-T-103, which was purchased during the 13th Bidding Round, in 2015. In addition, the company made a natural gas discovery last week in well 1-ENV-13-MA, in block PN-T-68, also... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) (PARIS: FTI) has been awarded a large(1) contract for Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) through a competitive contracting process, by Petrobras, the leader and operator of the Libra Consortium, which was formed by Petrobras, Shell Brasil, Total, CNPC, CNOOC Limited and Pré-sal Petróleo SA (PPSA), for the pre-salt Mero field, located in... Continue Reading →
