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Oct 24, 2019 With an eye on the development of the Carcará and Carcará Norte areas in the Santos Basin, Equinor engaged Seabed Geosolutions to run its first 3D seismic campaign with ocean-bottom nodes in the country. The campaign will cover an area of 410 km², in deep water. Mapping will begin in the second... Continue Reading →
Oct 24, 2019 (Reuters) - Germany’s Siemens expects revenue from its oil and gas division in Brazil in 2020 to double compared to 2018 levels, an executive said on Thursday, citing upcoming oil auctions that could total around $26 billion. The company does not disclose revenues by division but in 2018 it hit 4.1 billion... Continue Reading →
Italian oil service group Saipem is pressing ahead with plans to find a partner for its drilling unit to focus on its core business of building offshore installations and pipelines, the company's chief said on Thursday. Saipem makes most of its revenues from its engineering and construction (E&C) unit but wants to keep exposure to... Continue Reading →
Petrobras and Brazil will continue to dominate the deployment of global FPSOs over the next five years, data and analytics company GlobalData has reported. According to GlobalData, Petrobras is expected to deploy six planned and nine announced FPSOs by 2025. GlobalData says that during the 2019 – 2025 period, the year 2023 will witness the... Continue Reading →
TechnipFMC has reported third-quarter 2019 profit of $22 million or 5 cents per diluted share. The services major has seen an 84 percent decrease compared to net profit of $137 million same time last year. The results were affected by after-tax charges and credits totaling $32.6 million of expense, or $0.07 per diluted share. Continue... Continue Reading →
The Peregrino C jacket, built by Heerema Fabrication Group for Equinor, has left a fabrication yard in the Netherlands and sailed away to Brazil. Equinor awarded Heerema Fabrication Group the procurement & construction contract for the Peregrino II WHP C Jacket in May 2017. The construction started in November 2017 at Heerema’s Vlissingen yard. In a social media post... Continue Reading →
Italian energy services provider Saipem reported a rise in 2019 Q3 revenue and profit. The company’s revenue for the quarter grew to 2,36 billion euros, up from 2,22 billion a year ago. Net profit was 30 million euros, compared to a net loss of 34 million a year ago. Saipem’s offshore and engineering and construction division reported... Continue Reading →
Oct 23, 2019 After nearly five months of negotiations, Petrobras signs contract to replace lost shipwrecked equipment Siemens and Petrobras signed a contract to supply four generators for the P-71, replacing those lost in the shipwreck in mid-May. According to sources, the removal of the new equipment will be made until January by the winner... Continue Reading →
Mexican industrial group Carso, owned by the billionaire Carlos Slim, has said it has been awarded a contract to build two offshore platforms for the Mexican oil company Pemex. The company said the contract for the engineering, procurement, and construction of two offshore platforms named MALOOB-E and MALOOB-I. The platforms are destined to be deployed... Continue Reading →
Oct 23, 2019 (Reuters) - Brazilian police conducted raids on Wednesday in a new phase of the sweeping “Car Wash” corruption probe targeting alleged bribery by Italo-Argentine group Techint to secure contracts from state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Federal police and prosecutors said local Techint units Techint Engenharia e Construção SA and Confab Industrial... Continue Reading →
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