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Fugro has secured a subsea survey and positioning contract with Maersk Supply Service to support the installation of an anchoring system for the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Sepetiba at Petrobras’ deepwater Mero 2 project in Brazil. For the project, Fugro will use its QuickVision augmented reality camera to help guide the installation... Continue Reading →
(PN) Equipment capable of separating CO2-rich gas from oil at the bottom of the sea. Petrobras, operator of the Libra consortium, started selecting suppliers to execute the project, build, install and carry out HISEP® tests, a technology patented by the company that aims to separate and reinject, even at the bottom of the sea, the... Continue Reading →
(OM) Finally catching up with its rivals, U.S. oil and gas giant ExxonMobil has revealed its ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions for operated assets by 2050, backed by a comprehensive approach to develop detailed emission-reduction roadmaps for major facilities and assets. The net-zero ambition is contained in the company’s Advancing Climate Solutions – 2022... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 has received DNV Technology Certification for its Swagelining polymer lined riser product, said to be a world first. According to Subsea 7, the qualification programme was designed to address the challenges presented by the dynamic service environment and vertical orientation of the riser product. Using a combination of standard and bespoke test methods,... Continue Reading →
(PetroleoHoje) Petrobras will acquire up to 291.9 km of special flexible lines for the Buzios, Tupi, Sapinhoa, Atapu, Berbigao and Sururu fields, located in the Santos cluster. The oil company has launched a tender for the supply of the material, which will have to be non-susceptible to the phenomenon of SCC-CO2. The bidding will mark... Continue Reading →
(PN) Petrobras announced that it has received a license from the Brazilian Institute for the Environment (Ibama) for 3D seismic survey activity in the Tupi and Iracema fields, in the Santos Basin. The document will be valid for 1 year and 30 days. Data acquisition will be carried out by Shearwater Geoservices do Brasil. The... Continue Reading →
PGS has added 10,700 square kilometers of 3D MultiClient data to its data library coverage of the Niger Delta, kick-starting a major reprocessing project. According to PGS, this will be the cornerstone of a new regional-scale MegaSurveyPlus dataset for Nigeria, with the final data set to be ready in Q4 2022. The Nigeria MegaSurveyPlus covers... Continue Reading →
BW Ideol, a company specializing in floating offshore wind solutions has signed an investment agreement with Japan's JERA, and France's ADEME Investissement to create an investment company for financing the co-development of offshore wind projects using BW Ideol’s patented Damping Pool technology over the next 5 years. JERA is Japan’s largest utility company, and ADEME... Continue Reading →
Tanker operator AET has taken delivers of Eagle Campos, the first of another three Suezmax Dynamic Positioning (DP2) Shuttle Tankers purpose built for long-term charter to Brazil Shipping I Limited, a subsidiary of Shell. Shuttle tankers are used for the offloading and transporting oil from offshore oil installations. AET struck a deal with Shell in... Continue Reading →
Petrobras created the RES20 program, enabling to recover up to 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in its operational fields by 2030. The program was created with a focus on the incorporation of new reserves and targets the main oil fields of the company. To date, in nearly seven decades of the company's operations... Continue Reading →
