Petrobras' 2022-2026 strategic plan foresees 15 new FPSOs in six fields between 2022 and 2026. The director of production development, João Henrique Rittershaussen, highlighted that Petrobras will have under its operation approximately 50% of the FPSOs that will come into operation in the world in the next five years. Of the 15 planned units, 12... Continue Reading →
Soaring oil & gas demand to catapult well intervention over $14 billion by 2031, Fact.MR says
Offshore oil and gas exploration projects are expected to double the growth of well intervention market, as operators seek to increase production from existing fields amid skyrocketing oil and gas demand. Fact.MR expects the global well intervention market to reach $7.1 billion in 2021 with an increase of 7 per cent CAGR between 2021 and 2031, thus, surpassing $14... Continue Reading →
Trelleborg to Deliver Bearing System for Mero 3 FPSO
Sweden-based engineering firm Trelleborg has won a contract to supply an integrated structural elastomeric bearing system for MISC Offshore's FPSO project in South America. Trelleborg said the FPSO would have a processing capacity of 180,000 barrels of oil and 12 million cubic meters of gas per day. These specs correspond to the FPSO MISC is building... Continue Reading →
Keppel Nets $145,8M Orders for FPSO, FSRU Work
Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine has won contracts for the conversion of a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) and the integration of a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO). For the first project, Keppel Shipyard signed a Limited Notice to Proceed (LNTP) with what it said was a global provider of LNG shipping... Continue Reading →
Petrobras Awards Long-term Charters for Seadrill Drillship Duo
Offshore drilling company Seadrill has won two contracts with Brazil's Petrobras for the West Carina and West Tellus drillship. The two rigs will work on the Búzios field offshore Brazil. Both contracts have been signed on a 3-year fixed-term basis, with an expected start in September 2022. The total contract value for the two contracts... Continue Reading →
PETROBRAS ABANDONS DIVESTMENT OF THE MARLIN AND SERGIPE-ALAGOAS CLUSTERS
Petrobras divestment plan suffered a significant blow. The company decided that it will no longer sell 50% of the Marlim Cluster, which comprises of the Marlim, Voador, Marlim Leste and Marlim Sul fields, located predominantly in deep waters in the Campos Basin. “It is an asset that we have already managed to extend [the term... Continue Reading →
Chevron Venezuela Operations in Limbo
The U.S. is leaving Venezuelan operations of Chevron Corp. and top American oil-service companies at a standstill after President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist party came victorious in regional elections questioned by several Western nations. The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday extended until June. 1 its authorization for Chevron, Halliburton Co., Schlumberger, Baker Hughes Co. and Weatherford International Plc... Continue Reading →
BRASFELS SHIPYARD STARTED MANUFACTURING MODULES FOR THE P-78 FPSO
The Brasfels shipyard, in Angra dos Reis (RJ), began manufacturing the production modules for the FPSO P-78, which will be installed in the Buzios field, in the Santos Basin. Altogether, ten modules will be built here in Brazil – out of a total of 21 – and the work should last around 20 months. The... Continue Reading →
Swiss Public Prosecutor Fines SBM Offshore for Bribery
SBM Offshore, one of the world's largest suppliers of FPSO vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry, has been ordered to pay 7.0 million CHF (around USD 7.6 million) for bribery in the 2005 – 2012 period. A year ago, SBM Offshore said that three of its subsidiaries in Switzerland had received a notification... Continue Reading →
Yellowtail subsea contract among top 10 global awards for the century – Rystad Energy
French-American multinational, TechnipFMC recently landed a multi-million dollar contract to supply the subsea equipment for ExxonMobil’s fourth project in the Stabroek Block at the Yellowtail Development area. Based on its analysis of this contract alongside its record of others in the industry over the years, Rystad Energy recently noted that it ranks among the top... Continue Reading →