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Oilfield services giant TechnipFMC has shed more light on vessel contracts it recently secured with Petrobras in Brazil in cooperation with the Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF. DOF last week said it had, in JV with TechnipFMC, secured three-year contracts for two pipelay support vessels Skandi Vitória and Skandi Niteroi, without sharing further details on the scope... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) The Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) granted the operating license for Petrobras to carry out the multiazimuth 3D and 4D seismic survey activity in the Albacora, Marlim and Voador fields, in the Campos Basin. The license is valid for 4 months. The new survey could be carried out using the... Continue Reading →
CRP Subsea has delivered more than 140 Distributed Buoyancy Modules (DBMs), said to be the biggest in the world, for the ultra-deepwaters in Brazil. In the ultra-deepwaters, the DBMs will be creating steel lazy wave riser (SLWR) configurations, protecting steel pipelines from stress and fatigue, CRP Subsea said. The project incorporates several rigid SLWR pipelines... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has spudded the Sapote-1 well on the Canje Block, offshore Guyana. This is the company's third well in the block drilled this year. The first two wells, Bulletwood-1 and Jabillo-1, failed to find evidence of commercial hydrocarbons. The news of the drilling startup was shared by Eco Atlantic, which, in turn, was informed of... Continue Reading →
(Offshore) Cyber defense provider Naval Dome and a major international operating company have completed a joint two-year project to identify and mitigate cyber risks common to deepwater drilling rigs. The project’s findings indicate that the minimum industry guidelines, regulations, and security techniques are out of step with current platform technology, connectivity requirements, and cyber-attack methodology. It culminated in... Continue Reading →
CGX Resources has exercised an option to drill one more exploration well offshore Guyana using Maersk Drilling's Maersk Discoverer drilling rig, the Danish drilling firm has confirmed. CGX, which started drilling a week ago at its first well - the Kawa-1 - in the northeast quadrant of the Corentyne block, about 200 kilometers offshore from Georgetown,... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 06/21/21, informs, regarding the leasing process of the LNG Regasification Terminal of Bahia (TR-BA) and associated facilities, that the verification stage of the effectiveness of the commercial proposal and negotiation, provided for in the Call for Tender, was concluded, and the company Excelerate... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) Petrobras started drilling a wildcat well in the Aram block, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. The activity is being carried out in a water depth of 1,904 meters by the drillship Brava Star, from Constellation. The information was released by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP). The Aram block is operated by Petrobras... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) Saipem presents best price in the tender for the contracting of the subsea collection system for Buzios 6. The Italian company presented the best offer in the tender for the production collection system and anchoring services for the FPSO Almirante Tamandare, the sixth production unit in the Buzios field. The tender had a total... Continue Reading →
Oil major ExxonMobil is preparing to start drilling operations on its third well in the Canje Block offshore Guyana this year, using a Stena Drilling-owned drillship. In an update on Thursday, Westmount Energy noted the announcement by the Maritime Administration Department, Guyana, dated 25 August 2021, that the Stena DrillMAX drillship will start drilling operations at... Continue Reading →
