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Asian shipyards are making progress on the construction of future Petrobras FPSOs that will start operating on the Brazilian coast between 2021 and 2024. In recent months, many of them have made considerable progress in their works. The next unit in Búzios, the FPSO Almirante Barroso is now almost 60% finished. The platform ship should... Continue Reading →
Petrobras intends to go to the market this year to contract the FPSO for the deep water project in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin (SEAP). The information was revealed this morning by the company's production development director, Rudimar Lorenzatto, during a conference call with analysts and investors. The executive also confirmed that the SEAP conceptual project was... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras has signed a letter of intent with SBM Offshore for the chartering and provision of services for the FPSO Almirante Tamandaré, to be installed in the Búzios field, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt area off Brazil. Petrobras said on Wednesday that the FPSO will be the sixth unit... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 04/03/2018, informs that it signed today with SPE Miranga S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of PetroRecôncavo S.A., a contract for the sale of its total stake in nine onshore exploration and production fields, called Miranga Cluster, located in the state of Bahia. The... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil and gas company Enauta, formerly known as QGEP, has resumed production from its Atlanta field, located off Brazil, after a nearly month-long shutdown due to repairs. The Atlanta field Early Production System started production in May 2018, almost two years behind the schedule. The EPS is comprised of three productions wells connected to the FPSO... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) 3R Petroleum (RRRP3) will present to its shareholders, investors and the market in general the preliminary and unaudited operational data referring to the monthly production of the assets in which the oil company holds interest. Regarding the Macau Cluster, total production in January grew by 3.8%, compared to December, and totaled 4,683 barrels of... Continue Reading →
Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) launches, in an online event promoted by the Energy Research Company (EPE), on March 11, the Program to Revitalize and Encourage the Production of Offshore Fields (Promar). The program seeks to create conditions for the revitalization of mature offshore fields and to improve the economic use of accumulations of... Continue Reading →
The downturn brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating energy transition has created a new reality for the world’s oil and gas industry, whose production will peak lower and earlier than expected before the 2020 market crisis, a Rystad Energy analysis shows. The five integrated supermajors – ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and Total –... Continue Reading →
Oil major ExxonMobil has experienced technical issues with a gas compressor on the SBM Offshore-owned FPSO Liza Destiny, working for ExxonMobil offshore Guyana. Experts are now working to define the scope of repairs and fix the issue. ExxonMobil said at the end of January 2021 that there was a technical issue regarding a seal on... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 will continue to skew the floating production systems market for the coming 24 months, while buying power for a large portion of FPSO contracts will be centered in Brazil and Guyana/Suriname. These two areas are expected to account for more than 60% of the FPSO contracts awarded between 2021 and 2025. These are the... Continue Reading →
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