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Houston-based Vaalco Energy has completed its first of four wells in the 2021/2022 drilling campaign offshore Gabon and brought it into production with strong initial flow rates. The Etame 8H-ST development well was drilled from the Etame platform in the Etame field. This sidetrack well targeted existing Gamba hydrocarbons in the field that have not... Continue Reading →
Constellation secured a new charter contract for Olinda Star. The Brazilian group closed a deal with ONGC, guaranteeing 16 months of chartering, after presenting a best price in the bidding conducted by the oil company. The two companies signed a letter of intent at the end of January, but the rig should only start operating... Continue Reading →
Italian energy services firm Saipem, which on Monday issued a profit warning that sent its shares down to historic lows, on Friday appointed Eni's Alessandro Puliti as General Manager of the company. Born in Florence in 1963, Puliti has served as General Manager of the Natural Resources Division at the Italian oil firm Eni, Saipem's... Continue Reading →
Norwegian offshore vessel operator Solstad Offshore has secured several contracts for its construction support vessels. The contracts, for deployment in the North Sea, Brazil and West Africa, will have a combined total length of 640 days, with additional extension options available upon expiration. The total value of the contracts, which will see Solstads CSVs Normand Maximus, Normand... Continue Reading →
OceanPact has contracted TMC Compressors (TMC) to deliver the marine compressed air system for two anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTS). The Brazilian shipowner has upgraded two of its recently acquired AHTS – Rochedo de São Pedro and Rochedo de São Paulo – and will retrofit new marine compressors onboard. TMC will supply new compressors to each of the two vessels. Both... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Petrobras will contract an exclusive 4D seismic campaign with streamer and gravimetric and magnetometric data for the Tartaruga Verde and Tartaruga Verde Sudoeste fields, in the Campos Basin. The company launched a tender for the acquisition of mapping covering an area of 246 km², in water depths from 100 to 1,600 m. Tender for... Continue Reading →
Norwegian Innova and the U.S. Teledyne Energy System have partnered to demonstrate the use of hydrogen for local power of subsea control systems. Specifically, the companies conducted validation testing of Teledyne’s Subsea Fuel Cell Supercharger, a hydrogen and oxygen fuel cell electric power source designed to operate on the ocean floor with no connection to the surface.... Continue Reading →
Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa confirmed a gloomy outlook for a potentially negative full-year profit margin on Thursday, hours after naming a new Chief Executive to try to revive its fortunes. The world's largest maker of the offshore turbines that could help reduce reliance on planet-warming carbon blamed a first-quarter operating loss of 309 million... Continue Reading →
Offshore wind turbine makers have been working to build increasingly bigger turbines, and the likes of GE, Siemens Gamesa, Vestas, and MingYang have in the past two years or so unveiled designs for giant 14-16MW rated units.It has been said that larger turbines, while more expensive per unit, reduce the overall cost of large-scale offshore wind... Continue Reading →
(PN) Omni Táxi Aéreo was contracted by Shell in two tenders to support the oil company's production and exploration operations in different fields located in the Campos Basin. In the Parque das Conchas, Bijupira and Salema fields, Omni will provide the air taxi service with AW139 model aircraft, with a maximum takeoff weight of 7... Continue Reading →
