(Reuters) - Colombia's Trasandino pipeline is forecast to remain offline until December, the chief executive of Colombia's majority state-owned energy company Ecopetrol said on Wednesday. Earlier this month, while reporting its first-quarter financial results, Ecopetrol said it had been transporting crude oil through Ecuador since November in order to combat oil theft. Thousands of barrels of... Continue Reading →
Exclusive: Paraguay pushes rival bid for $1.5 billion Argentina-Brazil gas connector
(Reuters) - Paraguay is advancing talks with energy firms and high-ranking government officials from Argentina and Brazil over a potential $1.5 billion gas pipeline to connect the three countries, senior government officials for Paraguay and Brazil told Reuters. The plan being drawn up by Paraguay, reported in detail for the first time, aims to compete... Continue Reading →
Sapura Energy Lands $1.8B Petrobras Deal for Six Pipelaying Vessels and Subsea Services
(OE) Malaysia-based offshore services firm Sapura Energy has through its joint venture companies secured $1.8 billion worth of contracts with Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras for the provision of subsea services and six pipe-laying support vessels (PLSVs). Sapura Energy has through the joint ventures owned by Seabras Sapura Holding and Seabras Sapura Participações, in collaboration... Continue Reading →
Petrobras delivers first gas from Santos Basin FPSO
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 →
Exxon to Shut Two Platforms in Guyana for Two Weeks for Pipeline Connection
(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 →
Petrobras: Highlights on production and sales in 1Q24
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 →
Vallourec Wins ExxonMobil’s Whiptail Order Offshore Guyana
(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 →
Guyana gas-to-power project to shave weeks off oil output, hit revenue
(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 →
Argentina builds case for exporting natgas to Brazil through Bolivia
(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 breaks record for processing natural gas from the Santos Basin Pre-Salt in 2023
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 →