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ExxonMobil has hired offshore services firm Oceaneering for the provision of two surveys offshore Guyana, where Exxon has over the past few years discovered around nine billion barrels of oil. Oceaneering will carry out a towed and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) geophysical survey and a shallow geotechnical survey off the coast of Guyana. Oceaneering will... Continue Reading →
The director of exploration and production at Petrobras, Fernando Borges, said that Petrobras is close to launching the process of contracting the HISEP module for the Júpiter field, in the Santos Basin . As a reminder, HISEP is a new technology developed and patented by the state-owned company for the separation and reinjection of CO2... Continue Reading →
Simply Blue Energy and Subsea 7, the consortium behind the proposed Salamander floating wind project, have signed an MOU for potential incorporation of ERM’s Dolphyn hydrogen technology. Simply Blue Energy and Subsea 7, the consortium behind the proposed 200-MW Salamander floating wind project, have signed a memorandum of understanding for potential incorporation of ERM’s Dolphyn hydrogen... Continue Reading →
Italian cabling company Prysmian Group has secured a new contract with Petrobras to deliver deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals and specialized offshore and logistic services. As part of the contract, Prysmian will provide 200 kilometres of subsea umbilicals using both steel tube and thermoplastic technology for upgrades in brownfield and greenfield projects in Brazil. The €66 million... Continue Reading →
Subsea engineering, construction and services company Subsea 7 has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority interest in the equity of Nautilus Floating Solutions S.L. a developer of technology for the floating wind market based in Bilbao, Spain. According to Subsea 7, Nautilus has developed a promising concept for a floating wind foundation based... Continue Reading →
ICR Integrity (ICR), an industrial maintenance and integrity company, has partnered up with Guyana-based Panthera Solutions (Panthera) to deliver its Technowrap and Quickflange technologies and other solutions and the booming oil and gas market in the region. Panthera provides fabric maintenance and deck services to offshore energy companies and their suppliers and employs a local... Continue Reading →
(PetroNoticias) Enauta started the week with good reasons to celebrate. Its main asset, the Atlanta field, reached today the mark of 18 million barrels produced since the beginning of its operation, in May 2018. Located in the Santos Basin, the field today operates through an Early Production System (EPS), the FPSO Petrojarl I, in a... Continue Reading →
By Oliver Thompson, Archer Knight Demand for work-class ROVs (WROV) has traditionally been determined by the state of the global offshore oil & gas industry. This is likely to remain the case in the short to medium-term. However, there’s a new kid on the block – offshore wind. Growth in this sector is seen as... Continue Reading →
(Offshore) TGS has issued updates on various seismic surveys in its latest results statement. Offshore Brazil, the Santos multi-client 3D Phase 4 survey is under way over the western portion of the Santos basin: this will be a northwest extension of the existing TGS Santos 3D, covering around 5,000 sq km (1,930 sq mi). Full-volume... Continue Reading →
But the taller they get, the harder they will be to repair (Economist) On July 16th Royal Dutch Shell, an oil and gas company, and Scottish Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola, a Spanish electricity utility, made an announcement. They were, they said, jointly submitting proposals to the British authorities to build, off the coast of Scotland,... Continue Reading →
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