(TN) Petrobras started installing LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) measurement devices on six platforms located in shallow waters off the coast of the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará and Espírito Santo. The equipment integrates new wind measurement campaigns, which will be carried out over three years. The collected data will allow the elaboration... Continue Reading →
Philip Lewis, Contributor Only one of three available areas was sold during the United States' first ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday. The auction, held my the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) offered up three sites for offshore wind development, including one in Louisiana (Lake Charles) and... Continue Reading →
(OE) While trouble areas continue to emerge in the young U.S. offshore wind industry, analysts at Intelatus Global Partners maintain an optimistic outlook for the industry in the long term. The business intelligence and consulting firm said in its latest U.S. Offshore Wind Report that it sees long-term foundations for the U.S. offshore wind sector... Continue Reading →
(OET) UK-headquartered oil and gas company Tullow Oil has set the wheels in motion to sell its entire interest in Tullow Guyana (TGBV), which includes the Orinduik licence, to Eco Guyana Oil and Gas (Barbados) Limited, a subsidiary of Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas, in exchange for a combination of upfront cash and contingent consideration.... Continue Reading →
(ON) Brazil was able to cop a total of US$12.882 billion in signing bonuses from 15 block awards in its pre-salt area since the state-owned Petrobras made the first discovery back in 2006. This is according to the recent Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) report. The pre-salt is a sequence of... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore drilling rig service and inspection firm ModuSpec has won a contract to support the intake of a stranded new-build jack-up drilling rig. The jack-up was originally constructed in 2020 in Singapore and has remained stranded in the construction yard following the market crash and global pandemic, ModuSpec said. As the upstream oil &... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Russia's largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) Novatek last year offered technology to build a plant to produce the gas from Argentina's Vaca Muerta field, a highly-placed source familiar with the proposal said, though the talks have since broken off. The source said that Novatek proposed to help implement Argentina's plans to build... Continue Reading →
3R PETROLEUM ÓLEO E GÁS S.A. (“3R” or “Company”) (B3: RRRP3), in addition to the Material Fact of May 19, 2023, informs its investors and the market in general that, on June 7, 2023, the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (“ANP”) approved the transfer of the entire stake (100%) of Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.... Continue Reading →
(OET) Challenger Energy Group (CEG), the Isle of Man-headquartered oil and gas company focused on the Caribbean and Americas, has bid for and expects to be awarded a shallow water exploration block located off Uruguay. This is the sole remaining available block offshore Uruguay, as all other offshore exploration licences are held by energy majors: Shell and Apache... Continue Reading →
(OET) Challenger Energy Group, the Isle of Man-headquartered oil and gas company focused on the Caribbean and Americas, has started a farm-out process for a shallow water exploration block located offshore Uruguay, which has already attracted attention from several oil companies. Challenger Energy was awarded the AREA OFF-1 block in May 2020 by Uruguay’s state-owned oil and gas... Continue Reading →
