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Norway-based subsea and marine services provider DOF Subsea has secured a six-month extension to a contract in Africa. During the extension period, the company will continue to use Skandi Seven to deliver integrated field support vessel (FSV) services. The scope of work also includes project management, engineering, procurement and logistical services within deep-water construction and maintenance of... Continue Reading →
Ocean Edge Services has entered into an agreement with Atlantic Marine Supplies to support the needs of existing and new subsea operations in Guyana. The agreement comes as part of the need for servicing offshore oil production needs in Guyana, Ocean Edge Services said. According to the company, the vast potential of the Stabroek Block... Continue Reading →
French energy giant TotalEnergies has exercised an option for the extended use of one of Maersk Drilling's offshore drilling rigs in Suriname. TotalEnergies, which became the operator of the prolific Block 58 in January where it has in the past year with partner Apache struck several oil discoveries, has now added one additional appraisal well to the... Continue Reading →
The American Bureau of Shipping said Thursday that an FPSO duo being built for Brazil's Petrobras would be constructed to ABS Class. The sister FPSOs are currently named P-78 and P-79 and will be deployed at the giant Buzios pre-salt offshore oil field in Brazil's Santos Basin. ABS said that the fact the FPSO duo... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling firm Valaris said Thursday its CEO Tom Burke would step down from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, and that its CFO Jon Baksht would step down, too, both effective September 2, 2021. Anton Dibowitz, a current Board member, and former CEO of Seadrill,... Continue Reading →
Strohm, a business that specializes in composite pipe technology, announced on Thursday that it had opened a new office in Rio de Janeiro and that it was establishing a center of excellence for developing its Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP) technology as part of its South American expansion strategy. "Strohm is extending its footprint in Brazil... Continue Reading →
Oilfield services giant Schlumberger has this week introduced a service called Autonomous Directional Drilling, which, the company says, includes solutions to steer autonomously through any section of the wellbore. According to Schlumberger its intelligent and dynamic downhole automated control system instantly interprets and acts on data, enhancing well construction performance," the company said. Autonomous Directional... Continue Reading →
There are tentative signs of the start of a renewal in the work class ROV fleet. But what form will it take? (OE) The work class ROV (WCROV) market has taken something of a battering over the past few years. The 2014 downturn and then a pandemic has meant the ROV services market and the... Continue Reading →
The Buzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, has gained an extra highlight this week of OTC Houston 2021. Petrobras won the Distinguished Achievement Award for Companies, the main award in the offshore industry, for the technological innovations implemented in the exploration and production of the field. Currently with four units in production, Buzios should... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) About three years after acquiring the Titã block, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, the American company ExxonMobil started the first exploratory drilling in the area. The information was disclosed to the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) on its active wells portal. Drilling is being carried out in a water depth of 2,644 meters, using the... Continue Reading →
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