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Norway-based Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has secured a contract to conduct a 3D exploration in West Africa. PGS’ Ramform Titan-class vessel is scheduled to commence exploration in early February 2022 and complete the work in mid-March. The seismic company did not disclose further information about the project and client. “We are very pleased with this contract... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has secured a contract with Brazil’s oil and gas giant Petrobras for work in the Búzios field offshore Brazil, making it the third rig contract for Seadrill on the field. The contract was awarded to the West Jupiter drillship and it is for a firm term of 1,040 days with the start expected... Continue Reading →
The ANP will carry out the Second Round of Tenders for the Surplus Volumes of the Transfer of Rights, under the production sharing regime on Dec. 17. Two development areas will be offered in the Santos Basin: Atapu and Sépia. The public session will be held in Rio de Janeiro, in compliance with the health... Continue Reading →
Petrobras concluded the drilling of the pioneer oil exploratory well in block ES-M-669, in the pre-salt of the Espírito Santo Basin. Named Monai, the project broke the record for the deepest well ever drilled in Brazil, at around 7,700 meters. Just by way of comparison, this distance is equivalent to 1.3 times the height of... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Drillship Amaralina Star will operate dedicated to the Roncador field, from the end of 2022. Constellation and Petrobras signed a charter contract for the unit for a period of two years, with possibility of extension for another 365 days. Constellation presented the best daily rate in Petrobras' bid to contract a rig for the... Continue Reading →
Porto Central signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Votu Winds, a company that plans to install a complex of offshore wind farms in the southern coastal region of the State of Espírito Santo. The port terminal is a project being built in the south of Espírito Santo, on the border with the State of Rio... Continue Reading →
(OE) Excelerate Energy has started natural gas deliveries to the Brazilian market at the Bahia Regasification Terminal (TR-BA) in Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil. Excelerate's floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Excelerate Sequoia, which has an LNG storage capacity of 173,400 cubic meters, is providing regasification services at TR-BA. The terminal has a regasification capacity of... Continue Reading →
Oilfield services giant TechnipFMC has signed three flexible pipe frame agreements with Brazil's Petrobras. "Altogether, the frame agreements form a large contract for TechnipFMC," the company said. For TechnipFMC, a “large” contract is between $500 million and $1 billion. The contracts were awarded as part of Petrobras’s drive to increase oil recovery in its brownfield... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on 11/22/2016 and 03/21/2018, informs that it will receive from Equinor Brasil Energia Ltda. (Equinor) the last contingent installment in the amount of US$ 950 million related to the sale of its stake in the exploratory block BM-S-8, where the Bacalhau field (former Carcará... Continue Reading →
A new important milestone for Petrobras and its partners in the consortium that operates in the Libra block, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The board of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) approved the first development plan for the Mero field, which is located within the Libra area. In all, 65 wells will be drilled in... Continue Reading →
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