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Brazilian oil company Enauta has chartered an anchor handling tug and supply vessel from Norway's Solstad Offshore. Solstad Offshore said Tuesday it had struck a deal with Enauta for the charter of the 2006-built AHTS Normand Turmalina (previously known as BOS Turmalina). Enauta will continue using the vessel it first chartered back in August 2017... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractor Diamond Offshore has named a former boss of Pacific Drilling and a former executive of Noble Corporation as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer who will also serve on the board of directors. Diamond revealed on Monday that Bernie G. Wolford Jr. succeeds Marc Edwards, who retired from the company as Chairman, President, and... Continue Reading →
Norwegian seismic firm TGS has commenced the multi-client Phase 4 3D survey in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The survey is taking place in the western portion of the Santos Basin and works as a northwest extension of the existing TGS Santos 3D, covering approximately 5,000 square kilometers. The aim of this data coverage is... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticia) A surprise in the list of companies pre-qualified for the bidding of the P-80 platform, which will be installed in the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. The Japanese company Modec is one of the 13 pre-qualified companies and may eventually prepare proposals for the event, even after being banned by Petrobras from... Continue Reading →
Equinor has awarded CGG a major contract for the seismic imaging of its Bacalhau 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey covering 409 sq km currently being acquired in Brazil’s deepwater Santos Basin. The project is already underway at CGG’s Rio de Janeiro subsurface imaging center where its team is using imaging technologies, including reverse time migration, time-lag... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it signed a contract with Keppel Shipyard Limited to build the P-78, the seventh unit to be installed in the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt area. With processing capacity of 180 thousand barrels of oil per day and 7.2 million cubic meters of gas per day, the... Continue Reading →
Brazilian SM Continental, part of James Fisher group, has won a contract to provide ROV services to oil and gas company Petrobras. The two parties signed the agreement for a period of two years. “These new services and the growing customer base mean that the James Fisher group now has a well-established subsea services company in... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling believes that the shallow water activity is stabilizing and that the recovery in the deepwater market could begin later this year. The rig owner has also sold one of its stacked drillships for recycling. In its quarterly report on Thursday, Vantage revealed it had sold its 2012-built Titanium Explorer drillship and booked... Continue Reading →
Seadrill Ltd on Wednesday reached a tentative deal that will allow it to continue using lender cash to fund operations while it works with creditors on a path out of bankruptcy. During a virtual hearing, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones, sitting in his Laredo, Texas courtroom, said he would extend Seadrill’s access to cash until... Continue Reading →
Petrobras received the environmental license to carry out 4D maritime seismic survey in the Sapinhoá field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. In the installation part of Nodes (seismic sensors installed on the seabed), the Subsea Viking vessel will be used. In addition, one of the following seismic source vessels will also be employed: Hugin Explorer,... Continue Reading →
