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Jan 29, 2020 A new chapter in the history of Petrobras' problems with flexible risers. A line connected to the FPSO Cidade de Angra dos Reis, located in the Lula field, broke on the 21st. According to Petrobrás, there was no damage to the environment and it was also not necessary to stop production. The... Continue Reading →
Jan 29, 2020 Petrobras hired seven investment banks to sell a stake in BR Distribuidora, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The offer will be coordinated by the investment banking units of Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase & Co, Goldman Sachs Group, Itaú Unibanco Holding, XP, Bank of America and Citgroup, the... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 But they were less than a third of the volume of oil consumed in 2019! The world still celebrates the modest increase in discoveries of oil resources in 2019, after a period of several years of discoveries far below those of the years until 2015 (Rystad Energy, 2020). Still, even in... Continue Reading →
International Oil Company (IOC) has hired Frontera to undertake geohazard survey offshore Mexico. Mobilization for the project is underway and offshore work is expected begin and complete during March 2020. Frontera is an established offshore services contractor in Mexico since 2001. To remind, in August 2019, Frontera entered into an exclusive collaboration with DOF Subsea for the... Continue Reading →
Norwegian offshore vessel owner DOF Subsea has secured several contracts for two of its offshore vessels, with undisclosed clients. DOF subsea said it would carry out for pre-lay and LBL array installation activities in Guyana, subsea installation work in Trinidad and well-head removal work in Canada. All three contract awards will utilize the 104.2 meters... Continue Reading →
U.S. oil and gas producer Hess Corp said it would spend 11% more in 2020 compared with last year, betting heavily on its assets in offshore Guyana and the Bakken shale play. The company said its 2020 exploration and production capital and exploratory budget will be $3 billion, higher than the estimated $2.7 billion allocated... Continue Reading →
Facing economic collapse and painful sanctions, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has proposed giving majority shares and control of its oil industry to big international corporations, a move that would forsake decades of state monopoly. Maduro’s representatives have held talks with Russia’s Rosneft PJSC, Repsol SA of Spain and Italy’s Eni SpA.... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 For the first time, an FPSO installed in the Lula field was the one that produced the most in the country The FPSO P-69 extracted 183,767 thousand boed in November 2019, occupying, for the first time, the top of the list of FPSOs with the highest production in the country, according to... Continue Reading →
Jan 28, 2020 Report by consultancy Wood Mackenzie highlights that Petrobras and Shell found evidence of oil and gas in their wells, but nothing economically attractive for now Since 2017, oil companies have paid R$ 42 billion for exploration areas in the Brazilian pre-salt layer, one of the regions most coveted by multinationals. Despite this,... Continue Reading →
JAN 27, 2020 After being declared commercial by Equinor, in December last year, the Carcará area will gain a new name, well befitting the Norwegian culture. The asset will be renamed Bacalhau and the choice is interesting and symbolic because it is the first time, in the last 50 years, that a field in the... Continue Reading →
