Offshore accommodation rig provider Prosafe has signed a contract extension with Petrobras for the provision of the Safe Zephyrus semi-submersible vessel for safety and maintenance support offshore Brazil. The original 650-day firm period was due to complete in February 2025, but has been extended by 954 days, bringing in $109.7 million to Prosafe. The extension... Continue Reading →
Noble’s Semi-Sub Rig Gets Multi-Well Drilling Job off Suriname
(OE) Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has signed a contract with Petronas Suriname E&P for the high-specification semi-submersible rig Noble Developer to drill three wells offshore Suriname. The contract is expected to start around June 2025, with an estimated duration of 200 days. The firm contract value is approximately $84 million including additional services provided,... Continue Reading →
Petrobras to Keep Constellation’s Semi-Sub Rig Under $61M Contract Extension
(OE) Offshore drilling contractor Constellation has secured an extension of the current contract for its semi-submersible drilling rig Atlantic Star with Petrobras, worth up to $61 million. The contract extension is for an additional period of up to 301 days, and confirms the continuity of the operations that began in 2021. In recent years, the... Continue Reading →
Helix vessel getting ready for Brazilian decom job with Shell at Namibia’s port
(offshore-energy.biz) U.S.-headquartered offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions has confirmed the arrival of its purpose-built DP3 semi-submersible vessel to Namibia’s Port of Walvis Bay to prepare for its decommissioning assignment off the coast of Brazil. The U.S. player won a 12-month deepwater well decommissioning contract with extension options for work in Brazil’s Campos Basin in October... Continue Reading →
Petrobras and Ecopetrol confirm Colombia’s largest gas discovery
Petrobras, following up on communication of October 3, 2024, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Petrobras International Braspetro B.V. - Colombia Branch (PIB-COL), and Ecopetrol confirm the largest gas discovery in the history of Colombia with the drilling of the Sirius-2 well. The drilling of Sirius-2 began on June 19, 2024. The well is located within the... Continue Reading →
Brava Energia Hires Constellation’s Drilling Rig for Work Offshore Brazil
(OE) Offshore drilling contractor Constellation has secured a $130 million contract with Brava Energia for its Lone Star ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig for work offshore Brazil. The contract is for a firm term of 400 days, with a 60-days priced option which, if executed, may keep the rig busy until the first quarter of 2027. The... Continue Reading →
Brava Energia: Signing of Contracts for Integrated Campaign in Atlanta and Papa-Terra, with option for Malombe
BRAVA ENERGIA (“BRAVA”) (B3: BRAV3) (“Company”) informs its investors and the market in general that the Company signed, in November, the main contracts for the first integrated development campaign in Atlanta and Papa-Terra, with an option to develop Malombe through a tieback (subsea connection) to Peroa. The campaign will begin in 4Q25, with the first... Continue Reading →
Offshore Driller Seadrill Has Its Sites Set on Asset Acquisitions, M&A
(Reuters) Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill is looking to buy more assets or create a larger player by merging with peers, the company's CEO said on Wednesday. Norwegian-born billionaire John Fredriksen lost the control of the company, once the world's largest driller by market cap, to its creditors over two debt restructurings since 2014. Now a... Continue Reading →
Mexico approves Harbour acquisition of Wintershall Dea
(offshore.mag.com) Harbour Energy expects to complete its acquisition of Wintershall Dea’s global E&P portfolio in early September. The process of satisfying the conditions to completion has been advancing, including the recent receipt of Mexico regulatory consents. Earlier this month, the Danish Energy Agency also approved the indirect transfer of interests in four licenses that had been granted to... Continue Reading →
Namibia: The Newest Most Promising Deepwater Rig Demand Hotspot
Teresa Wilkie, Contributor Research Director of RigLogix at Westwood Global Energy.. (OE) Over the past few years the Namibian Orange Basin has emerged as an exciting new oil province and subsequently a provider of significant new demand and future demand potential for deepwater drilling rigs. According to Westwood’s Wildcat, “the Upper and Lower Cretaceous plays opened in... Continue Reading →