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(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 →
(Reuters) A unit of Mexico's Grupo Carso, controlled by the family of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said on Thursday it has purchased a minority stake in Talos Energy Mexico for $124.75 million to obtain a portion of the offshore Zama oil project. The acquisition needs approval of Mexican regulators, Carso said in its statement. The... Continue Reading →
Exclusive article from TN Magazine The oil industry's activity resembles a moving bicycle. Without new impulses, the activity remains for a while, but tends to gradually decline and eventually cease. In the oil sector, these impulses can be given in two ways: with the exploration of new areas; or with investments in existing fields to... Continue Reading →
(epbr) Despite Ibama's veto of the environmental license for drilling a Petrobras well in deep waters in the Foz do Amazonas Basin this week, activities in the region are not unprecedented. According to public data from the National Petroleum Agency (ANP), Foz has already had 95 drillings — all have occurred in shallow waters. Practically... Continue Reading →
(OM) Hookup operations have finished on the converted Pargo floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO) on the Pargo cluster in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. Operator Perenco Brazil now plans to submit final documents to the country’s regulatory authorities to obtain an operations license for the FSO. The program included connection of nine mooring lines and the... Continue Reading →
French oil major TotalEnergies said Monday it had, with its partners, signed Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) on Blocks 6 & 8 with Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), the State-owned oil company of Suriname. Blocks 6 and 8 were awarded to TotalEnergies in the Suriname Shallow Offshore Bid Round 2020/2021. TotalEnergies will operate the two blocks with... Continue Reading →
Qatar’s state-owned energy giant QatarEnergy has entered into two production sharing contracts (PSCs) for two blocks offshore Suriname, following successful bids for these blocks. Back in June 2021, Chevron and a consortium between TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy submitted winning bids for blocks offered in the Suriname Shallow Offshore (SHO) Bid Round 2020/2021, which closed for bidding on 30 April.... Continue Reading →
Teresa Wilkie, Contributor Research Director of RigLogix at Westwood Global Energy A noticeable recovery in the West African offshore floating rig market (semisubmersibles and drillships) has been slower to arrive than the other two points of the Golden Triangle – Brazil and the US Gulf of Mexico – but now appears to be well underway. As... Continue Reading →
Operator Wintershall Dea and its partners Harbour Energy and Sapura OMV have made a significant oil discovery on the Kan exploration prospect in Block 30, located in the shallow waters of the Cuenca Salina in the Sureste Basin, offshore Mexico. Based on preliminary estimates, the discovery may contain 200 to 300 million barrels oil equivalent... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Guyana's closely watched auction of 14 offshore oil blocks faces a delay with the South American country pushing back the deadline for oil explorers to submit bids to mid-July. The three-month delay is in response to industry feedback and the need for modernizing the country's oil and gas regulatory framework, which is expected to... Continue Reading →
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