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The oil company announced to its shareholders this morning that it will assume the entire stake in the Atlanta Field, in the BS-4 block of the Santos Basin. Looking to the future, the company is now preparing to start a bidding process to contract the definitive FPSO for the field - which today has an... Continue Reading →
For nearly 80 years, Mexico kept its borders closed to foreign oil interests, with the state-owned and -run Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) being the only entity allowed to drill for gas in Mexican territory. In 2017, then-president Enrique Peña Nieto opened up Mexico’s considerable oil reserves to foreign oil companies and investors for the first time in nearly... Continue Reading →
The Union oil surplus under the production sharing regime increased 74% in October, compared to September, registering a daily average of 7 thousand barrels of oil. Of this total, 4 thousand bpd (barrels of oil per day) were produced in the Mero Development Area, 3 thousand bpd in Entorno de Sapinhoá and 40.7 bpd in... Continue Reading →
The 10 Year Energy Plan (PDE) 2030 is in public consultation this week, bringing some expressive forecasts about how the oil and gas sector in Brazil will develop in this decade. The document points out that the exploration and production (E&P) segment should receive investments between US$ 415 billion and US$ 454 billion in the... Continue Reading →
Inadequate investment in exploration and new drilling may leave the world without enough oil in 20 to 30 years despite a shift towards renewable power sources, top energy analysts say. The long-term outlook contrasts with today's situation where plunging oil demand due to the coronavirus crisis has left the market oversupplied, prompting the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries,... Continue Reading →
Chinese shipbuilder Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry has delivered the floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel set to work on Eni’s Amoca shallow-water project off Mexico. Cosco held the delivery ceremony on Thursday, 10 December. It was the second large-scale offshore engineering project delivered by Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry yard in Shanghai this year. This... Continue Reading →
Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas has made its first offshore discovery offshore Suriname. The company, as the operator of Block 52, said Friday the hydrocarbon discovery had been made while drilling the Sloanea-1 exploration well in the offshore block. The Sloanea-1 exploration well was successfully drilled to a total depth of 4,780 meters using... Continue Reading →
Australian player Karoon Energy has offloaded its first shipment of over 500,000 barrels of oil from its newly acquired Baúna production field, offshore Brazil. Karoon said on Thursday that the shipment comprised of oil produced by the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí, operated by the Altera&Ocyan joint venture, in the period since the company completed its acquisition... Continue Reading →
The world is on track to run out of sufficient oil supplies to meet its needs through 2050, despite lower future demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating energy transition – unless exploration speeds up significantly and capital expenditure of at least $3 trillion is put to the task, a report by Rystad... Continue Reading →
French oil major Total has awarded a maintenance contract to energy storage equipment manufacturer and service provider Norco Group for its offshore assets in Angola. Norco Group will support Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and standby battery equipment on Total's Angola’s assets in offshore Block 17. This includes the Dalia, Girassol, Pazflor, and CLOV FPSO... Continue Reading →
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