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(OET) Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has appointed a North Carolina-headquartered company to deliver a seal-less canned motor boosting system for its field in the Campos Basin with the aim of enabling reliable subsea production. Curtiss-Wright Corporation has signed a technology cooperation agreement with Petrobras to design, manufacture, test, and provide operational support for... Continue Reading →
(OE) Aker software company Aize has signed an agreement with ExxonMobil Guyana and SBM Offshore to deploy Aize digital twin software on the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units Liza Unity and Liza Destiny offshore Guyana. Aker-owned company Aize will work with its partners transform the traditional approach to TAR (Turnaround) campaigns by strengthening... Continue Reading →
(OET) Japanese FPSO operator MODEC has confirmed the start of the construction phase for a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is destined to work on ExxonMobil’s fifth oil development in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana. According to MODEC, a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction for its inaugural project in Guyana,... Continue Reading →
(OE) The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) and Innovation Fund Denmark have announced an intention to release a $4.2 million funding opportunity to advance floating offshore wind energy systems. The announcement builds on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between DOE, the Denmark Ministry of Higher Education and Science, the Denmark... Continue Reading →
In 2023, we delivered an excellent upstream operational performance, meeting all production forecasts for the year. Total annual production of oil and natural gas, of 2.782 MMboed, was 3.7% above the production of 2022. Our good results were made possible mainly by the start-up of FPSOs Almirante Barroso, Anna Nery and Anita Garibaldi, as well... Continue Reading →
(PN) Wood announced today that it has secured an extension of a US$80 million contract with Equinor Brasil. The agreement provides for the provision of maintenance and modification solutions for offshore assets in the Peregrino field, in the Campos Basin. The two-year extension builds on a long-term, global partnership with Equinor, where Wood supports the... Continue Reading →
(OM) Late last month Halliburton Landmark announced it is working with the Petrobras-led Libra Consortium on a digital twin for the presalt Mero Field in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The aim is to help reduce capex, speed up production times and improve crude oil recovery using the new insights obtained in a real-time environment. The digital twin, a... Continue Reading →
(OW) Floatgen, the demonstration floating wind turbine installed at the SEM-REV offshore test site in France, has completed its planned five-year run but will operate for another five years as the demo project was decided to get a lifetime extension. The floater, which consists of a 2 MW Vestas V80 wind turbine mounted on BW Ideol’s Damping... Continue Reading →
(OW) WindFloat Atlantic, the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm, has completed its third year in operation, closing in 2023 with an electricity production of 80 GWh. Connected to the grid by the end of 2019 and fully commissioned in 2020, the floating offshore wind farm was developed by the Windplus consortium formed by... Continue Reading →
(OW) Netherlands-based FibreMax has launched a comprehensive range of global supply chain solutions tailored to the needs of floating offshore wind technologies. The array of solutions provided by FibreMax, in collaboration with partners Avient Dyneema and Teijin Aramid, is broad, covering ample production capacity, land-based production facilities, and floating production units, the company said. The... Continue Reading →
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