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France's TotalEnergies confirmed Friday it had with its partner Qatar Petroleum been awarded Block 6 and Block 8 in the Suriname SHO Bid Round 2020/2021. TotalEnergies will operate the two shallow-water blocks, with depths between 30 meters and 50 meters, and located near the company's operated Block 58, where 4 significant discoveries have been made... Continue Reading →
Singapore’s offshore builder Dyna-Mac has secured additional work scope from existing customers, for a total provisional contract sum of S$8 million (about $6 million), and completed projects and loaded out modules. Dyna-Mac said on Tuesday it was awarded an add-on work scope for an ongoing project in the yard. The award is for the procurement... Continue Reading →
A consortium between France’s major TotalEnergies and Qatar’s Qatar Petroleum and U.S. supermajor Chevron have submitted winning bids for shallow-water offshore acreage in Suriname. Suriname’s national oil company Staatsolie said last Friday that the three oil companies submitted ‘most favourable’ bids for the relevant blocks offered in the Suriname Shallow Offshore (SHO) Bid Round 2020/2021... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil major Chevron, and a consortium between France's TotalEnergies and Qatar's Qatar Petroleum have submitted winning bids for shallow-water offshore acreage in Suriname, Suriname's national oil company Staatsolie said Friday. Staatsolie said the trio had submitted "most favorable" bids for the relevant blocks offered in the SHO Bid Round 2020/2021 which had closed for... Continue Reading →
Brazil newly created rental and services company, WAMS, adds iXblue DriX Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) to its existing pool of equipment. Offering the most modern technology for underwater service and research, this new investment marks an important turn in the company’s offering. Available for WAMS customers in Brazil, the DriX USV will increase operational performance... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) 3R Petroleum Oil and Gas reported that its board approved the formalization of a partnership with DBO under which the companies agree to jointly capitalize 3R Petroleum Offshore, new name of OP Energia, and to join efforts to seek acquisition opportunities. The company will seek, through the partnership, to expand its operations in offshore... Continue Reading →
(ANP) Published today the Monthly Bulletin of the Production of Oil and Natural Gas of the ANP of the month of March 2021, with consolidated data of the national production in the period. For the first time, production in the Santos Basin surpassed 70% of national production, registering its largest relative share in the historical... Continue Reading →
Oil and gas investment company ADM Energy which in March agreed to invest in the development of the Barracuda oil field in OML 141, an existing discovery and near-term production asset in swamp/shallow waters offshore Nigeria, has signed a deal with Eunissel to explore collaboration to develop the Barracuda. Under the term of the agreement, ADM... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Equinor’s Peregrino oilfield off the coast of Brazil is on track to restart in the first half of this year following several delays, a spokesman said on Monday. The heavy oil field in the Campos basin was shut in April last year due to a rupture of a so-called riser at the Peregrino... Continue Reading →
No deal has yet been reached on the future of a lucrative shared oil deposit as a deadline expired on Thursday, but Mexican state-run Pemex and Talos Energy will keep talking, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. How to develop the nearly 700 million barrel offshore Zama discovery, which was made by... Continue Reading →
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