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JAN 8 , 2020 SOTREQ Caterpillar dealer will supply a package consisting of seven 3.45 MW gas generators to Eneva, which is responsible for gas exploration in the Azulão field. It is a project that will be integrated with TPP Jaguatirica II, in Roraima. After liquefied and stored in the Azulão, the gas will be... Continue Reading →
Jan 8, 2020 About four months after starting drilling in block S-M-623, where the Sagitario prospect is located, Petrobras made its first notification of oil evidence in the area. The discovery took place at well 3-BRSA-1370-SPS, at 1,841 meter water depth, which is being drilled with the ODN I rig. The resumption of exploratory activity... Continue Reading →
January 9, 2019 Number of authorizations for seismic and drilling campaigns increased over previous year Ibama authorized, last Wednesday (8/1), SpectrumGeo to carry out a 2D seismic campaign in the Pará-Maranhão Basin. In the licensing process, it is stated that the BGP Pioneer vessel, from Chinese BGP, will conduct the work. The issuance of environmental... Continue Reading →
Premier Oil and Rockhopper, two oil companies working to develop the Sea Lion oil field offshore the Falkland Islands, have welcomed Navitas as their potential new partner in the project. The companies have signed non-binding heads of terms with Navitas Petroleum, which should lead to Navitas obtaining a 30% interest in the Sea Lion offshore... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas company Premier Oil has hired a Valaris-owned drillship for operations on Block 717 located offshore Brazil. In an update on Tuesday, Premier said it had contracted the Valaris DS-9 drillship to drill the Berimbau/Maraca stacked prospects on Premier’s operated Block 717 in the Ceara Basin in Brazil. The well is scheduled to... Continue Reading →
Results from an independent, third-party contingent resource evaluation of the Talos Energy-operated Zama discovery off Mexico exceed the company’s previously guided resource range. Houston-based Talos on Tuesday announced the finalization of the third-party contingent resource evaluation of the company’s globally recognized Zama discovery commissioned from Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI). Talos is the operator... Continue Reading →
Apache and Total announced a significant oil discovery at the Maka Central-1 well drilled offshore Suriname on Block 58. The well was drilled using the drillship Noble Sam Croft with Apache as operator holding a 50% working interest and Total holding a 50% working interest. Maka Central-1 successfully tested for the presence of hydrocarbons in multiple stacked... Continue Reading →
Jan 3, 2020 Equinor forecasts two FPSOs for Carcará Equinor will install two FPSO-type platforms to produce oil and gas in Carcará, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The first production unit, with a capacity of 220,000 barrels per day of oil and 15 million m³ / day of natural gas, will be the largest in... Continue Reading →
January 3, 2020 A 313 km long pipeline, being 294 km offshore and 19 km onshore, linking the Santos Basin pre-salt production hub to Madeira Island at the Itaguaí Port in Rio de Janeiro. This is Cosan's new project for harnessing pre-salt ultra-deepwater gas, in a project that begins with the discovery of Carcarcá, operator... Continue Reading →
January 06, 2020 Petro Rio S.A. (“Company” or “PetroRio”) (B3: PRIO3) announces to its shareholders and to the market in general that as of this day, it has been included as part of IBXX (or IBrX-100 Index), which consists of the 100 most traded companies in Brazil’s main stock exchange. The Company had previously been... Continue Reading →
