Offshore vessel owner DOF Subsea has entered a partnership deal with offshore survey firm Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc. (OFG) to offer Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) services to the international offshore industry. "The partnership will effectively leverage the two businesses’ recent collaboration in the development of the OFG AUV non-contact integrated Cathodic Protection (iCP) inspection system... Continue Reading →
Drydocks Starts Conversion Works on Perenco’s Brazil-bound FSO
DP World's subsidiary Drydocks World Dubai has started converting an Aframax tanker capable of carrying 700,000 barrels of oil to a Floating Storage and Offloading Unit (FSO) for Dixstone, part of Perenco. As part of the extensive modification and life extension work at the FSO Pargo project, Drydocks will apply a new hull coating, which... Continue Reading →
Complying with Court Order, U.S. to Hold Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale in November
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold an oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico on November 17, complying with a U.S. District Court order. To remind, the Biden administration had paused all oil and gas leasing activities on federal lands and waters in January, citing climate crisis. A federal judge... Continue Reading →
Petrobras on Manati field stoppaged
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that on Monday, 09/27, gas production was halted at the Manati field, located in the Camamu Basin, in the state of Bahia, due to a leak in the onshore portion of its export pipeline. The pipeline's operation was interrupted, with teams being mobilized for repairs, and is expected to... Continue Reading →
Brazil: Output from Manati Offshore Field Stopped Due to Gas Leak
Brazilian oil firm Enauta has said production from the Manati offshore field in Brazil was stopped preventively on Monday due to small gas leakage in the inland pipeline between the compression station and the gas treatment station. "The operator is assessing the causes of this incident, resumption still will be estimated. The Company will keep... Continue Reading →
Fugro wraps up geohazard survey offshore Suriname
Fugro has completed a geohazard site investigation programme for TotalEnergies off the north-west coast of Paramaribo in Block 58 of the Guyana-Suriname Basin. The project involved the acquisition and analysis of geophysical data and geotechnical soil samples approximately 150 kilometres offshore in water depths ranging from 60 metres to 2,100 metres. Fugro carried out the... Continue Reading →
AUTHORIZED TRANSFERS OF THE MIRANGA CLUSTER TO PETRORECONCAVO AND OF THE PEROA CLUSTER TO 3R PETROLEUM
(PetroNoticias) The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) approved the transfer of 100% of the Petrobras stake in the Miranga cluster in Bahia, to PetroReconcavo. The regulatory agency also gave the green light for the full sale of Polo Peroa, in the shallow waters of Espírito Santo, to 3R Petroleum. As a reminder, the sale of the... Continue Reading →
China Union offers best proposal for Jack-Up rig to Petrobras
(PetroleoHoje) Petrobras received seven proposals for chartering a jack-up rig for operation in the Northeast China Union Offshore presented the best price for the charter of a self-elevating intervention rig for operation in water depths from 12 to 50 m. The Asian group offered the DSJ300 jack-up, with a daily rate of US$72,000 plus a... Continue Reading →
Mexico’s president earmarks $32B to help Pemex boost oil production
(Bloomberg) --Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is raising Pemex’s spending plan for next year to about $32 billion in a bid to boost flagging oil production. The funds allocated for the state producer in a 2022 budget proposal, including operational spending, represent a 17% increase from this year. Of the total, about $18 billion... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC Says Vessel Contract with Petrobras ‘Significant’
Oilfield services giant TechnipFMC has shed more light on vessel contracts it recently secured with Petrobras in Brazil in cooperation with the Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF. DOF last week said it had, in JV with TechnipFMC, secured three-year contracts for two pipelay support vessels Skandi Vitória and Skandi Niteroi, without sharing further details on the scope... Continue Reading →