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Nov. 5 (splash234.com) razil’s competition watchdog CADE has given conditional approval to the proposed merger between Italian offshore engineering giant Saipem and Norway’s Subsea 7, requiring the companies to sell a specialised pipelay vessel to address competition concerns. The Brazilian regulator approved the combination, which will create Saipem7, after the companies agreed to divest the... Continue Reading →
Nov. 5 (splash247.com) Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF has secured another long-term contract extension with Petrobras in Brazil. The company said that the pipelay support vessel (PLSV) Skandi Olinda has been awarded a 304-day extension following negotiations with the Brazilian state-controlled oil and gas giant. The contract, previously scheduled to expire in April 2027, will... Continue Reading →
July 31 (OE) DOF Group has secured long-term contract extensions with Petrobras for the Skandi Buzios and Skandi Recife pipelay support vessels (PLSVs), extending both contracts into January 2028. Following negotiations with Petrobras, Skandi Buzios was awarded a 516-day extension, while Skandi Recife secured a 550-day extension, DOF said. The contracts had previously been due... Continue Reading →
April 23 (OE) With one year since the last AHTS report, we have now started to see the effects of a tightening supply-demand balance as earlier predicted, which has translated into a significant uptick in the North Sea spot market especially. The total global AHTS fleet totals just south of 1,700 vessels, of which roughly... Continue Reading →
Dec. 18 (offshore-energy.biz) Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group has landed seven contract extensions with Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras, which will add more than $160 million to the firm’s backlog. While disclosing seven new contract extensions with Petrobras in Brazil, DOF explains that five of its Brazilian-flagged anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels, all with... Continue Reading →
Nov. 3 (offshore-energy.biz) Three pipelay support vessels (PLSVs) owned by a joint venture of DOF and TechnipFMC have secured contract extensions with Brazil’s oil and gas firm Petrobras. The current contracts of the 142-meter-long Skandi Vitória and Skandi Niterói have been extended from the fourth quarter of 2025 until the first quarter of 2027. The three-year contracts announced in June 2024 will... Continue Reading →
Aug.18 (Reuters) – Petrobras signed a R$3.2 billion contract with the offshore support vessel company OceanPact for the charter of four RSV vessels for four years, the service provider told Reuters on Monday (18). The vessels will be used in remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operations for inspection of underwater structures, preventive and corrective maintenance, installation... Continue Reading →
Aug 11 (PN) Seagems completed the BRAVA Project, carried out in the Atlanta Field, in the Santos Basin. Signed in 2022, the contract included an EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation) campaign, developed in partnership with its shareholder Sapura Energy. The final phase began in April 2024, with the mobilization of the vessel Onix to... Continue Reading →
(oilprice.com) Petrobras is beefing up its offshore game, throwing four more support vessels into the mix by 2026—bringing the grand total to 48. Brazil’s state-run oil company is gearing up to boost production to 2 million barrels per day (bpd) at the Buzios field by 2030, cementing Brazil’s status as an offshore oil heavyweight. Petrobras... Continue Reading →
(OE) Petrobras has awarded contracts to Techdof, a joint venture between DOF Subsea and TechnipFMC, for two of its pipelay support vessel (PLSVs). Petrobras extended the existing contract for PLSV Skandi Açu to mid-2026. This extension will be followed by the new three-year contract ending mid-2029, DOF informed. Skandi Açu is designed to achieve a... Continue Reading →
