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Petrobras has produced first gas through the P-68 platform serving the Berbigão and Sururu fields in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil, the company said in its latest results statement. It also conducted a scheduled shutdown of the Mexilhão Platform (Route 1) in the same basin for preventive maintenance, designed to ensure continued production, flow and natural gas supply operations. In... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Exxon Mobil Corp will shut down two offshore oil production projects in Guyana for two weeks each, between July and August, to connect a natural gas pipeline, the company's country head Alistair Routledge told reporters in Georgetown on Tuesday. The 140-mile (225-km) pipeline will feed Guyana's $1.9 billion gas-to-power project aimed at ending the... Continue Reading →
In 1Q24, average production of oil, NGL and natural gas reached 2,776 MMboed, increase of 3.7% when comparing with the same period last year (1Q23). Among the main factors behind this variation, we can highlight the ramp-up of the FPSOs Almirante Barroso, P-71, Anna Nery, Anita Garibaldi and Sepetiba, as well as the start-up of... Continue Reading →
(OE) France-based tubular solutions supplier for the energy market Vallourec has secured an order from ExxonMobil for the supply of line pipe for the Whiptail development, offshore Guyana. This is the fourth major order in the framework of the long-term agreement signed in 2021 with ExxonMobil Guyana. Vallourec will deliver over 180 km of line... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Guyana’s efforts to use its natural gas resources to fuel a power plant that would slash the South American nation's energy costs have snagged on construction delays and threaten to curtail the rising oil hotspot's revenue this year by about $1 billion. The $1.9 billion gas-to-power project, Guyana's biggest effort to capitalize on its... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Energy companies from Argentina and Brazil have begun talks on reversing the southerly flow of a Bolivian natural gas pipeline network that connects the three countries as a regional gas deficit could force Brazil to pay up for alternative supplies of the fuel. A preliminary proposal on the pipeline shift has failed to... Continue Reading →
Petrobras has never processed so much natural gas from the Santos Basin Pre-Salt as it did in 2023. The company reached a daily average of 25.25 million m³, surpassing the 2022 record by around 200,000 m³/day. Pre-salt gas is processed at the Caraguatatuba (UTGCA) unit in the state of São Paulo and the Macaé (UTGCAB)... Continue Reading →
Feritech Global has completed a major design and build project for Oceaneering, the world’s largest provider of subsea robotics to the offshore energy industry. The company has designed a next generation auto-drop piston corer which is expected to dramatically reduce the amount of time needed for subsea geotechnical surveying, increasing safety and efficiency, whilst reducing... Continue Reading →
(Offshore-energy.biz)Brazilian oil and gas player Enauta is making progress in putting all the puzzle pieces together to bring a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, destined to work at its field off the coast of Brazil, online later this year. After the first multiphase pumping subsea system (MPP), manufactured by OneSubsea, was loaded in Norway on January... Continue Reading →
(Offshore-energy.biz) U.S. energy infrastructure player New Fortress Energy (NFE) has kicked off operations at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Santa Catarina, Brazil, following the arrival of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU). According to New Fortress Energy, the Terminal Gas Sul (TGS) LNG terminal in Santa Catarina has now become operational. This occurred after the... Continue Reading →
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