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 →
Chile’s Underdeep Solutions Adds Another Falcon ROV
Chile's Underdeep Solutions has expanded its ROV Fleet with a third Seaeye Falcon ROV, to support its aquaculture work Underdeep’s latest Falcon is the second 1000m deep-rated version for the company, which specializes in fish farm inspection and support throughout Chile and the region. Underdeep's three Falcons are currently working at full capacity in the... Continue Reading →
Petronas Makes Its First Offshore Discovery in Suriname
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 →
Petrobras on payment of dividends
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras informs that will pay, on Tuesday, 12/15/2020, dividends referred to the 2019 fiscal year, based on shareholding position as of 07/22/2020, in connection to the Material Fact released on that date. The amount of dividends to be paid will be adjusted by Selic interest rate from 12/31/2019 to 12/15/2020 interest... Continue Reading →
Mexico to investigate Vitol bribe allegations, president says
(Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday his government will investigate allegations bribes were paid by the U.S. subsidiary of the world’s largest independent oil trader Vitol to state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Lopez Obrador, speaking at a news conference, said the accusations by the U.S. Justice Department related to... Continue Reading →
Karoon offloads first oil from recently-bought Baúna field
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 →
McDermott Nets pre-FEED Extension for BHP’s Trion Floater
Australian oil and gas firm BHP has awarded a contract to McDermott to carry out the preliminary Front-End Engineering Design (preFEED) extension phase for a Floating Production Unit (FPU) that could be installed at its Trion field offshore Mexico. The FPU would be installed in a water depth of around 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) at... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s fuel demand surpasses 2019 levels, with more growth for 2021
(Bloomberg) --Brazil is providing one of the few bright spots for oil demand outside of Asia with the coronavirus continuing to ravage the U.S. and Europe. Fuel consumption in Latin America’s largest economy has already surpassed pre-virus levels and is expected to be stronger than 2019 going into next year on the back of robust... Continue Reading →
The world to run out of oil supply to meet demand unless exploration speeds up, Rystad reports
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 →
Amazon, Ørsted Ink Europe’s Largest Offshore Wind Power Purchase Deal
E-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon has signed a 10-year corporate power purchase agreement with offshore wind firm Ørsted. In what has been described as Europe's largest ever offshore wind power purchase deal, Amazon has committed to offtake the output of 250MW from Ørsted's planned 900MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. Borkum... Continue Reading →