April 23 (oilnow.gy) Saipem reported revenue of €3.5 billion for the first quarter of 2026, with earnings rising on stronger performance in its offshore and onshore engineering and construction segments. The company said on April 21 in Milan that adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) increased 24% year-on-year to €434 million, while... Continue Reading →
Deepwater’s Playbook for Delivering Growth
April 23 (OE) Deepwater production continues to remain a core part of the long-term energy supply mix. While production from conventional onshore and shallow-water assets is expected to remain broadly flat under our base case, Welligence estimates that global deepwater oil production will grow from its current level of around 8 million bbl/d to close... Continue Reading →
Tight Supply Drives Surge in High-End AHTS Dayrates
April 23 (OE) With one year since the last AHTS report, we have now started to see the effects of a tightening supply-demand balance as earlier predicted, which has translated into a significant uptick in the North Sea spot market especially. The total global AHTS fleet totals just south of 1,700 vessels, of which roughly... Continue Reading →
Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt is an Environmental Nightmare
April 22 (oilprice.com) U.S. intervention in Venezuela, with illegitimate President Nicolas Maduro snatched in a daring January 2026 night raid, opened the country's oil industry to foreign investment. While President Donald Trump is aggressively pushing for Big Oil to invest in Venezuela, energy majors are taking a more sober approach. Venezuela's heavily corroded oil infrastructure, responsible for a nationwide... Continue Reading →
Halliburton flags higher costs from Iran war as first-quarter profit tops estimates
April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. oilfield services provider Halliburton warned disruptions caused by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz could cut current-quarter earnings per share by about 7 to 9 cents after beating first-quarter profit estimates. The Strait of Hormuz is a key global energy chokepoint, and the company said... Continue Reading →
South America now “most consequential” for new oil supply, given Middle East tensions – Rystad Energy
April 22 (oilnow.gy) South America’s upcoming oil developments, including several in Guyana, are gaining increased importance due to recent developments in the Middle East, Norway-based Rystad Energy said in an April 21 analysis. “The Middle East conflict has done more than spike oil prices — it has exposed how dangerously concentrated global supply chains are... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil hires Saipem for limited work on proposed Longtail project in Guyana
April 22 (oilnow.gy) ExxonMobil Guyana has awarded a limited notice to proceed (LNTP) to Italy’s Saipem, related to its proposed Longtail project in Guyana, signaling a future full contract award that Saipem said could be worth up to US$1.5 billion. The Italian engineering firm said it has been awarded a new limited notice to proceed... Continue Reading →
Oceaneering pilots ROV on Brazilian offshore drilling rig from land
April 21 (offshore-energy.biz) Oceaneering has performed the first piloting operation of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) on a drilling rig offshore Brazil from its onshore remote operations center (OROC), for Brazilian oil & gas giant Petrobras. The company’s Subsea Robotics segment and Brazilian subsidiary Marine Production Systems do Brasil LTDA (MPS) piloted an ROV located on a drilling... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Completes Interconnection of the Buzios Field to the FPSO P-79
April 16 - Petrobras has completed the interconnection campaign of the Buzios 8 project, a step that enables the first oil from the P-79 platform in the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin. The unit will have the capacity to produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil per day and compress 7.2 million cubic meters... Continue Reading →
Spain’s Repsol wins back control of Venezuelan oil operations
April 16 (Reuters) - Spanish energy group Repsol has reached an agreement with the Venezuelan government and state energy firm PDVSA to take back operational control of its Venezuelan oil assets and boost production, the company said on Thursday. The agreement includes plans to triple production from its Venezuelan oil operations within three years and guarantee... Continue Reading →