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Feb. 17 (OE) Saipem has reached agreement on the main terms and conditions to acquire the seventh-generation drillship Deep Value Driller for $272.5 million. The Deep Value Driller is a high-specification ultra-deepwater drillship built in 2014, featuring GustoMSC P10000 design and able to accommodate 210 people. The drillship is capable of operating in water depths... Continue Reading →
Feb. 17 (OE) DOF Group ASA announced the award of a substantial contract for a project in Argentina. The project is scheduled for offshore operations across two campaigns in Q2 and Q3-Q4 of 2026 and will encompass mooring pre-lay, pipeline end manifold installation/construction management, tie-in spools installation, hook-up and pre-commissioning of two CALM buoys, and... Continue Reading →
Feb. 16 (OE) Azule Energy, jointly owned by Eni and BP, has made an oil discovery at the Algaita-01 exploration well in Block 15/06 offshore Angola, with initial estimates pointing to approximately 500 million barrels of oil in place. The well, located in the offshore Lower Congo Basin, was spudded on January 10, 2026, in... Continue Reading →
12 February 2026 – Jumbo Offshore has completed mooring pre-installationactivities for the FPSO Errea Wittu for Exxon Mobil Guyana Ltd. at Uaru Field,Stabroek Block, Offshore Guyana, on behalf of Modec. The scope of work included theinstallation of suction anchors and the pre-lay of mooring lines in preparation forFPSO hook-up.Jumbo Offshore performed installation engineering, procurement, mobilisation... Continue Reading →
Feb. 12 (OE) GustoMSC, through its parent company NOV, has secured contracts for the design and supply of critical equipment for Hanwha Ocean’s new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), based on the GustoMSC NG-16000X design, with delivery scheduled for the second quarter of 2028. The vessel will be the fourth based on the NG-16000X platform,... Continue Reading →
Feb. 12 (OE) BW Offshore has unveiled a floating blue ammonia FPSO concept developed in collaboration with McDermott International, combining offshore production, carbon capture and direct export to convert surplus natural gas into lower-carbon fuel. The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) concept is designed to process up to 3 million cubic meters of gas... Continue Reading →
Feb. 11 (oilnow.gy) MODEC has completed the first steel cutting for the Hammerhead floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel more than a month ahead of schedule. MODEC made the announcement today via LinkedIn. The steel cut ceremony marked the start of fabrication at BOMESC Offshore Engineering Company Limited in Tianjin, China. The FPSO is being... Continue Reading →
Feb. 10 - Petrobras' total oil and natural gas production exceeded the upper limit of its target by 2.8 percentage points (+4%), reaching 2.99 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), representing an 11% increase compared to 2024 production. In 2025, Petrobras achieved its best result in the last ten years by adding 1.7... Continue Reading →
Feb. 10 - Petrobras's P-79 platform, an FPSO-type unit, arrived at the Santos Basin pre-salt this weekend, according to the planned schedule. The unit was towed to its location with the crew on board, a successful strategy already used with P-78 to reduce the time to start production. "Embarking the crew during the voyage to the location allows... Continue Reading →
Feb 10 (Reuters) - Equinor's international oil and gas portfolio will return to growth in the next few years as the Norwegian energy group targets sharply increased output abroad by 2030, its head of foreign operations told Reuters. After recent divestment of onshore assets in Argentina, Equinor now produces oil and gas in seven countries outside Norway, down... Continue Reading →
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