Oilfield services company Wood is delivering a multimillion-dollar engineering design project for Chevron’s Anchor deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico. The scope of the project included the preliminary, front end engineering and design (Pre-FEED), FEED and now entails detailed design of Anchor, a wet tree development that will employ a semi-submersible floating production unit... Continue Reading →
Ampelmann Wins Contract from SBM in Guyana
Dutch offshore service provider Ampelmann said it has added Guyana as a new market to its global portfolio following a contract award from compatriot floating production and mooring systems firm SBM Offshore. Ampelmann said it assisted the hook-up and commissioning of the SBM floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Liza Destiny, which came on stream for... Continue Reading →
Total expects to invest R$ 15 billion in E&P in Brazil by 2024
March 2, 2020 French oil company expects to reach average production of 150,000 barrels a day in the country in five years Enthusiastic with the portfolio built in Brazil in recent years, the French oil company Total plans to invest between US $ 600 million and US $ 700 million per year in exploration and... Continue Reading →
Xodus anticipates unprecedented decline in oil and coal, rise of gas
International energy consultancy Xodus Group has launched a new analysis showing that a rapid pivot to gas would be required to deal with rising global energy demand. Xodus said on Friday that, in contrast to some recent future energy scenarios, it believed worldwide energy consumption would continue to increase, driven by economic growth in developing... Continue Reading →
FPSOs: The New Business Model
As New Year 2020 unfolds, there are 21 floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSO) on order, and unlike a year ago, these — and not floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) — are the unheralded story. Driven by a decent price for oil, this buoyant market is kept strong by new players, new business models... Continue Reading →
Petrobras about expression of interest on E&P assets in the Pará-Maranhão Basin
February 28, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 02/03/2020, referring to the sale of part of its equity interest in the concessions BMPAMA-3 and BM-PAMA-8, located in the Pará-Maranhão Basin, reports that it has extended until 03/05/2020 the deadline for companies to send the documents foreseen in the... Continue Reading →
Pipeline IMR: An All-seeing Eye
There are surveys, and then there are surveys. For survey-tech outfit, Ecotone, the business model is offering a faster, digital way to monitor the health of seabed environments and offshore infrastructure. There’s enough to do with Norway set to invest $4.89 billion in pipelines in 2020 to add to thousands of kilometers of pipe worldwide.... Continue Reading →
Sonangol to Start Asset Sale in April
Angolan state oil company Sonangol will begin in April to sell its stakes in several private firms, chair Sebastiao Gaspar Martins said, as part of a government bid to privatize key state assets including parts of Sonangol itself by 2022. The eleven companies include local bank Banco BAI as well as Sonamet, Sonatip, and Sonadit... Continue Reading →
Rystad: Coronavirus could delay FPSOs under construction in Asia up to one year
The outbreak of the coronavirus is set to cause extensive staffing and supply shortages as well as delays on floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels under construction in China, South Korea, and Singapore, according to energy intelligence firm Rystad Energy. Rystad said on Friday that 22 out of a global total of 28 FPSOs... Continue Reading →
BW Offshore nearly triples quarterly profit
FPSO operator BW Offshore nearly tripled its quarterly profit despite negative impact of a $13 million charge due to termination of an FPSO charter in New Zealand. In the fourth quarter of 2019 BW Offshore recorded operating revenue of $303.4 million, an increase compared to revenues of $255.4 million in 4Q 2018. BW nearly tripled... Continue Reading →