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Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV), a provider of testing, inspection, and certification services, has noted a 900 per cent rise in demand for the remote inspection of offshore assets and equipment since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. BV said on Monday that requests for its remote inspection, certification, examination, and verification services escalated from... Continue Reading →
May 11, 2020 The domino effect triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the players in the oil and gas sector, piece by piece. This time, who suffered the fall - and severe, by the way - was the multidisciplinary platform maintenance segment. Petrobras decided to demobilize the maintenance activities of these units and suspend... Continue Reading →
Solstad Offshore has signed a pair of construction support vessels (CSV) to new contracts, reporting deals for CSVs Far Saga and Normand Energy. The Brazilian flagged CSV Far Saga secured a three-year contract from Petrobras. Continue reading
Norwegian offshore EPC contractor Aragon has won a contract to deliver topside modules for Malaysia-based Yinson's Anna Nery FPSO that will produce oil from Petrobras' Marlim field in Brazil. The Bergen-based company, part of Singapore's SembMarine, said that the contract covers the engineering, procurement, and construction of 7 modules for the gas treatment, gas compression,... Continue Reading →
May 11, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras confirmed oil of excellent quality in the Southeast area of the Búzios field and greater potential in the pre-salt of the Albacora field. POÇO 9-BUZ-39DA-RJS Located in the Southeast area of the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, 210 km from Rio de Janeiro, the well... Continue Reading →
May 9, 2020 Petrobras' P-48 FPSO was one of the units which the company demobilized due to the coronavirus crisis. Recently, Petrobras demobilized several oil and gas production units due to the coronavirus crisis and the effects caused by it. Among these units was the company's FPSO P-48. After almost a month of standstill, the... Continue Reading →
The swift oil price crash caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will reduce the combined free cash flow of FPSO fields, which have produced above three quarters of their original resources at just $2.20 per barrel this year. This is a jaw-dropping decline from 2019’s $11.10 per barrel, a Rystad Energy impact analysis reveals. We also estimate... Continue Reading →
May 08, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras reaffirms its commitment to the proposals of the new gas market and informs that the sale prices of the product (which include the molecule and transportation parcels) to the distributors in the new contracts started in January had an average reduction of 36%, in US$/MMBtu, in May... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras (PETR4.SA) said on Friday that its cash burn could reach $1 billion a month in periods of extreme stress and volatility, noting the current level of uncertainty in being able to accurately predict spending. The state-owned firm, formerly known as Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., cited current costs, expenses and volatile oil prices... Continue Reading →
May 8, 2020 Oil company plans to drill up to three wells in the Patola discovery area, in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin Karoon submitted a project to Ibama to drill two production wells and a contingent in the area of the discovery of Patola, in the south of the Santos Basin. The... Continue Reading →
