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Australia’s BHP has drilled two additional exploration wells as part of a deepwater drilling campaign offshore Trinidad and Tobago with one discovery made, and one well classified as dry. BHP said in its operational update for the third quarter published on Thursday that the two wells were located in the Northern licenses and were a... Continue Reading →
Oct 17, 2019 The electricity sector has entered the radar of major global oil companies, eager to consolidate in Brazil a consumer market for their respective natural gas production, whether from pre-salt or from abroad, through the importation of liquefied natural gas (LNG). ). Encouraged by the process of opening the Brazilian gas market, companies... Continue Reading →
ONGC Videsh, international business of the Indian oil company ONGC, has announced two discoveries in Brazil and Colombia. The company on Wednesday said it had made a major gas discovery at the Moita Bonita-2 well in the deepwater block BM-SEAL-4, Brazil in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin. Petrobras as operator of BM-SEAL-4 consortium with ONGC Videsh,... Continue Reading →
Oct 15, 2019 Oil company is the first international oil company to seek a drilling unit for the development of a large field in Brazil The attention of major drilling companies will turn to Equinor in the coming weeks. The Norwegian oil company launched a bid to charter a 3,000 m water depth rig for... Continue Reading →
Oct 15, 2019 Financing obtained by Australian oil company from ING Bank will have a maturity of four years Karoon has signed a US $ 275 million line of credit for the acquisition of the Baúna field in the southern Santos Basin. With a four-year maturity, funding from ING Bank N.V's Singapore branch provides for... Continue Reading →
Oct 15, 2019 Four more qualified for the ANP 6th pre-salt sharing auction: Enauta, Equinor and Petrogal (operators A) and Cepsa (non-operator). As a result, the number of companies able to participate in the auction rises to 17. - Equinor already operates pre-salt projects, such as Carcará, in Santos, and Pão de Açúcar, in Campos;... Continue Reading →
Norway's BW Offshore will wait for markets to stabilize before launching a planned initial public offering of its oil production arm, BW Energy, an executive said on Thursday. "We are generally ready to go to the market for a listing... however, looking at the market right now, with everything going on in the macro environment... Continue Reading →
Halliburton has been awarded an international license for ExxonMobil’s patented Non-Aqueous Fluid Gravel Packing (NAFPac) technique for gravel pack completions. Hole stability and shale inhibition are keys to successful installation of open hole completions. Non-aqueous fluid (NAF) is often selected to optimize the drilling process, but hole stability issues can occur when displacement to brine... Continue Reading →
October 11, 2019 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras reports that it signed today with Imetame Energia Lagoa Parda Ltda, wholly owned subsidiary of Imetame Energia Ltda, a contract for the sale of its entire working interest in the onshore fields of the Lagoa Parda Cluster, located in Espírito Santo state, near the city of Linhares.... Continue Reading →
Oct 11, 2019 After two years of auctions dominated by Petrobras and ExxonMobil, the 16th Round oil and gas exploration concessions was dominated by Petronas from Malaysia and QPI from Qatar. These were the companies that invested the most in the acquisition of assets in the bidding: R $ 3.72 billion in total. The amount... Continue Reading →
