(oilnow.gy) ExxonMobil continues drilling at the Haimara-3 well, appraising its Haimara-1 gas discovery of 2019. Guyana’s Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) said the Stena Carron rig will be engaged in drilling at the Stabroek Block, with the operation set to conclude by December 31, 2024. Previous drilling at the well was conducted in July with the Stena DrillMAX,... Continue Reading →
Hull for Guyana’s Jaguar FPSO arrives at Singapore yard
(oilnow.gy) SBM Offshore said the multi-purpose floater (MPF) 5 has arrived at the Seatrium yard in Singapore. The hull is the base vessel for the Jaguar floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel bound for Guyana. With the hull’s safe arrival in Singapore from the SWS shipyard in Shanghai, the initial focus will be on... Continue Reading →
Supply Chain Calls for Narrowing Down Floating Wind Platform Designs
(offshoreWIND.biz) “We probably have around 150 different floating wind platform designs at the moment. So how do you design a perfect port for floating wind?”—Tommy Sandtorv, CCO Karmsund Port at Karmsund Port Authority. Sandtorv shared this thought on 26 November at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) in Amsterdam, during a discussion about the challenges in the... Continue Reading →
Shearwater to Proceed with 4D Survey for Petrobras in Campos Basin
(OE) Offshore seismic services firm Shearwater Geoservices has been given a go-ahead from Petrobras to start one of the two 4D projects covering the Jubarte and Tartaruga Verde fields in the Campos Basin area. Under the eight-month contract, announced in January 4, 2023, Shearwater will use its high-capacity vessel Oceanic Vega and will start imminently.... Continue Reading →
Petrobras informs about termination of divestment contract for Uruguá and Tambaú fields
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the communications of September 8, 2021, October 27, 2021, March 29, 2023 and December 21, 2023, and as a result of the failure to complete the acquisition of FPSO Cidade de Santos by Enauta Energia S.A. (according to the decision communicated by that company on July 1,... Continue Reading →
FPSO Destiny Purchase by ExxonMobil Guyana Completed
SBM Offshore and ExxonMobil Guyana Ltd, an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, have completed the transaction related to the purchase of FPSO Liza Destiny, ahead of the maximum lease term, which would have expired in December 2029. The purchase allows ExxonMobil Guyana to assume ownership of the unit while SBM Offshore will continue to operate... Continue Reading →
OceanPact signs R$697 million contract to charter support vessel to Petrobras
(PN) OceanPact announced a new R$697 million contract with Petrobras, for a period of four years, for the charter of the Ilha do Mosqueiro vessel, an OTSV (Offshore Terminal Support Vessel). The vessel will be used for the maintenance of offloading hoses on platform ships (FPSO) and oil tankers (FSO), with high-capacity winches and cranes,... Continue Reading →
Petrobras drilling exploratory wells in North of Brava and Aram blocks, in the Pre-Salt layer
Petrobras recently started drilling two new wells in the region, in the North of Brava and Aram blocks, which are located in the Campos and Santos basins, respectively. In Aram, the adjacent pioneer exploratory well 4-BRSA-1395-SPS is in a water depth of 1,757 meters, with drilling being carried out by the Valaris DS-4 rig. The... Continue Reading →
Offshore Service Vessels: What’s in Store in 2025
Jesper Skjong, Contributor (OE) After what we would argue has been an incredibly eventful 2024 with massive deals, tremendous dayrate developments, further charterer backlog build, and the first series of newbuild orders in years, now comes the time when we turn our gaze towards 2025. What are some of the main trends we expect for next... Continue Reading →
Petrobras hires another drillship for work at two oil fields offshore Brazil
(offshore-energy.biz) Ventura Offshore Midco, a subsidiary of the Brazilian deepwater offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore, has secured a long-term drillship contract with Petrobras, a compatriot state-owned energy giant, for operations at two oil field developments off the coast of Brazil. Just like Seadrill, which won a drilling deal for 1,095 days plus extension options after a competitive tender,... Continue Reading →