Feb 20, 2020 MESSAGE FROM THE CEO THE FIRST YEAR OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW STRATEGY I am pleased to share the results of a year of hard work, with the implementation of a new strategy for Petrobras, based on a transformational agenda supported by five pillars: maximization of the return on capital employed,... Continue Reading →
Repsol’s Loss Widens on Low Prices, Writedowns
Spain's Repsol on Thursday reported a 36% fall in adjusted net profit and a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2019, battered on all sides by lower oil and gas prices and one-off charges mainly related to a bid to cut carbon emissions. Oil majors around the world have posted steep falls in 2019... Continue Reading →
Floating Production: The Next Chapter
The market for floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSO) is heating up. Séverine Baudic, SBM Offshore’s Managing Director for Floating Production Solutions, weighs in on the strategic initiatives and technological innovations helping the company to secure contracts for some of the world’s most complex deepwater projects. When it comes to reducing lead times and... Continue Reading →
Brazil Breaks Oil Output Record in January
Oil companies produced 3.17 million barrels per day (bpd) on average in Brazil in January, a volume 20.4% larger than seen in the same month a year earlier and an output record for the country, oil regulator ANP said on Wednesday. Natural gas production increased 22% over January 2019 to 138.7 million cubic meters per... Continue Reading →
Total licenses five wells in the Campos Basin
Feb 19, 2020 Total started last Tuesday (18) the environmental licensing in Ibama of five wells, two exploratory and three for evaluation, in the area of exploratory block C-M-541, in the Campos Basin pre-salt. The company signed the concession contract for the area, where it has a partnership with Petronas and QPI, last Friday with... Continue Reading →
Galp foresees ten new wells in Lula
February 19, 2019 According to an executive of the JV with Petrobras, goal is to increase the recovery factor of the largest field in the country Petrobras should drill at least ten new wells in the Lula field, in the Santos Basin, said Galp's Upstream Operations director, Thore E. Kristiansen, during a conference with analysts... Continue Reading →
How cloud-based computing is transforming subsea survey
Digitalization has revolutionized the world, and hydrographic survey techniques are no exception. While advances in mechanical design have enabled the survey of increasingly remote locations, electronics and digital processing techniques have dramatically increased resolution. Where once a few spot soundings were considered enough to make a chart, today’s survey vessels generate vast amounts of data... Continue Reading →
Argentina’s energy bust spawns ‘ghost town’ in prized Vaca Muerta
Just weeks into his young administration, Argentina’s new president convened a meeting with executives from Chevron Corp (CVX.N), Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSa.L) and other oil companies in a bid to smooth things over with an industry which he had slammed as a candidate months before. Campaigning last year against the South American country’s former... Continue Reading →
PGS, Cognite Partner on Seismic Surveying
Marine geophysical firm PGS and artificial intelligence (AI) software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Cognite are teaming up in an effort to make seismic survey vessels work better, faster and more efficiently. Venturing into a new area of the energy sector, Cognite has launched a digitalization project with Norway’s PGS, a leader in subsurface seismic imaging, to optimize... Continue Reading →
Guyana Produced 35,607 bpd in December
Guyana produced 35,607 barrels per day (bpd) of oil in December, following the inauguration of production in the country by a consortium led by U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp, the finance ministry said in a report. Exxon has discovered more than 8 billion barrels off the coast of Guyana, a poor South American country with no... Continue Reading →
