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(Offshore Energy) The Curaçao-based international holding company, HAL Holding, has announced an intended all-cash voluntary public offer of €32.50 per ordinary share for all issued ordinary shares in the capital of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. HAL has been a shareholder of Boskalis since 1989 and currently holds 46.2 per cent of the issued Boskalis shares.... Continue Reading →
(Portos e Navios) PetroRio, an independent oil and gas company, recorded a production record in February, with 35,671 barrels/day. It is the highest average monthly amount for the company. The highlight was the Polvo – Tubarão Martelo cluster, which had a production increase of over a thousand barrels/day. The better operational performance of the FPSO... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Açu Petróleo signed with Petrobras and Transpetro the first infrastructure sharing agreement for crude oil. Focused on the Osduc network (Cabiúnas-Reduc), the operation will enable the connection of the future line that will interconnect the Oil Terminal, in Porto do Açu, in São João da Barra (RJ), to the Cabiúnas Terminal, located in Macaé... Continue Reading →
AET, a Singapore-based petroleum logistics unit of Malaysian energy logistics group MISC Berhad, has taken delivery of the second of three Suezmax second-generation dynamic positioning (DP2) shuttle tankers, which are purpose-built for a long-term charter with Shell for operations in Brazil. Following the announcement from 24 February 2022, when AET confirmed the naming of the first... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Colombian Energy Minister Diego Mesa launched the country's plans for offshore wind energy at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston on Tuesday, while an agreement to develop the first wind project has been signed, the government said in a statement. Developing the industry could bring in some $27 billion in investments by... Continue Reading →
Norwegian shipping company Siem Offshore and offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions Group have entered into an agreement for the well intervention vessels Siem Helix 1 and Siem Helix 2. With the new agreement, the total contract backlog for Siem Offshore is now $440 million. The agreement will replace the existing contracts and the... Continue Reading →
Bureau Technical Services is supporting Subsea 7 with quality assurance and quality control services (QA/QC) for the deepwater Sangomar Field Development Phase 1 project offshore Senegal. The project includes 46 pipeline end terminations (PLETs) and in-line tee structures (ILTs) to be fabricated with more than half of them having CRA clad piping, and some structures... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Schlumberger's (SLB.N) current-quarter results are likely to be impacted by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, its chief executive officer said on Tuesday, as Moscow accounts for about 5% of the oilfield services company's global revenue. Crude prices have surged since the beginning of March on worries over the invasion of Ukraine and as the United States... Continue Reading →
(OM) Twenty-eight major subsea production equipment contracts were awarded in 2021 according to Wood Mackenzie. This represented an increase of three over 2020, but still down from the record 54 contracts issued in 2019. Higher construction vessel utilization rates coupled with moderate cost inflation will lead to day rates rising by 5-8% year-on-year through 2026,... Continue Reading →
Scana's subsidiary Seasystems, previously known as Scana Offshore, has received a letter of intent to deliver an anchoring system for a Brazil-bound FPSO. The delivery consists of anchoring equipment such as chain stops, jacks, and winches. Scana said that the FPSO for the project would be rebuilt in Asia, with the integration of the mooring... Continue Reading →
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