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Oct. 21 (msn.com) ExxonMobil (XOM) is nearing completion of its seismic data acquisition program offshore Trinidad and Tobago, marking a key milestone in the company’s first year of exploration activities under its production sharing contract, and is expected to drill an exploration well in 2028, Energy Minister Roodal Moonilal said Tuesday. With the seismic campaign... Continue Reading →
Oct. 17 (oilnow.gy) Guyana’s first competitive oil auction offered more shallow water blocks than deep water acreage. Eleven of the 14 blocks were in shallow water, and six were selected for negotiations in October 2023. The round, launched in December 2022 and closed in September 2023, formed part of efforts to attract additional operators to... Continue Reading →
Oct. 15 (OE) TGS and SLB have announced the second phase of their Pelotas Sul multi-client 3D seismic survey offshore southern Brazil, covering approximately 11,200 square kilometers in the Pelotas Basin. A Ramform Titan-class vessel is scheduled to begin data acquisition in October 2026, with the survey expected to be completed in the second or... Continue Reading →
Sept. 28 (OE) Shearwater Geoservices has been awarded a three-year ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisition contract by an undisclosed oil and gas company for work offshore South America, with operations set to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026. The contract includes firm scopes in the first and third years of the award period,... Continue Reading →
Sept.18 (oilnow.gy) Indonesia’s state-owned energy company PT Pertamina is exploring upstream oil and gas investments in Guyana and Suriname to secure more reliable energy sources. Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the company has started preliminary discussions on exploration and investment opportunities in the two South American countries. Indonesian state news agency ANTARA News... Continue Reading →
Sept. 9 (OE) SLB and Shearwater GeoServices have launched a 3D multi-client seismic survey offshore Amapá in Brazil’s Equatorial Margin, targeting an underexplored area that has attracted increased interest following the recent Morpho hydrocarbon discovery. The Amapá 3D survey area is located about 130 kilometers from the Morpho exploration well and is designed to provide... Continue Reading →
Sept. 2 - Colombian geophysical services company Vector Geophysical has acquired 30,000 STRYDE Halo-Connect ground-based seismic nodes along with a Nimble receiver system, significantly expanding its capacity to execute high-density seismic surveys in Colombia. The agreement marks STRYDE's first large-scale order for Halo-Connect since the launch of the next generation of its miniaturized seismic node... Continue Reading →
Aug. 20 - Alexandre de Gusmão FPSO, the fifth to be installed in the Mero field in the Santos Basin pre-salt, reached peak production, at 180,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd). Mero is the third largest producing field in Brazil, after Búzios and Tupi. “Each unit that reaches the maximum production level envisaged in the project not only contributes to the... Continue Reading →
Aug, 20 (oilprice.com) Anadarko Peru, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:OXY) is moving ahead with plans to drill its first exploration well offshore northern Peru in 2027, advancing a project that could help unlock a major new source of domestic oil and gas. The company, operator of offshore Blocks Z-61, Z-62 and Z-63 in the... Continue Reading →
Aug. 14 (oilnow.gy) ExxonMobil is expected to provide results from its seismic work on the ultra-deepwater Block TTUD-1 by the end of August 2026, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said. The company has been conducting a 3D seismic survey across approximately 6,000 square kilometers of the block, located off the country’s east coast. The data will... Continue Reading →
