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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, in addition to the release disclosed on 04/06/2023, informs that its Board of Directors approved, in a meeting held today, the Company's organizational adjustment proposal, which will be effective as of May 1st. The proposal has three objectives: (i) prepare the company for the energy transition with the creation of... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 04/06/2023, informs that its Board of Directors elected Mr. Maurício Tolmasquim to the Board of Energy Transition and Sustainability of the Company, which will coordinate the activities of decarbonization, climate change, new technologies and sustainability and will incorporate the commercial activities of natural... Continue Reading →
Petrobras started to move the FPSO Anita Garibaldi to the Marlim field, in the Campos Basin. The unit was moored at Estaleiro Jurong, in Aracruz (ES), where it underwent final tests and commissioning stages. The platform vessel should start operating at the beginning of the second semester. The unit has the capacity to produce up... Continue Reading →
U.S. offshore wind developer Dominion Energy is this week kicking off unexploded ordinance identification within the export cable corridor and the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) lease area located offshore of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The U.S. Coast Guard said in a notice to mariners that the UXO works would start on or about April 25,... Continue Reading →
Challenger Energy said Wednesday that it had identified three sizeable prospects in its AREA Off-1 offshore block in Uruguay of between 1 to 2 billion barrels and that the company said it would launch a farm-out process "following unsolicited interest from a number of industry counterparties." The company said that an initial prospect inventory of... Continue Reading →
(OW) 3Global offshore wind developer Corio Generation and Norwegian renewable energy business Å Energi have established Nordvegen Vind, a joint venture aiming to bid for the Utsira Nord floating offshore wind site in Norway. Nordvegen is the name for the old shipping route which for more than 3,000 years has been a gateway for maritime... Continue Reading →
ExxonMobil has made yet another oil discovery in Guyana's prolific Stabroek offshore block. The news of the new offshore oil discovery in Guyana was shared by Hess Corp., ExxonMobil's partner in the block, where around 11 billion barrels of oil have been discovered in recent years. According to Hess, a partner alongside China's CNOOC in... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil firm Enauta has restarted production from its Atlanta field offshore Brazil following a brief interruption, but the 2HP well that was shut down Tuesday remains shut. First, the company on Tuesday said that it had temporarily interrupted the production of the Atlanta field and was evaluating the causes of the interruption. The company... Continue Reading →
(OE) Hitachi Energy and industry group WindEurope have published a new report which concludes that Europe needs more meshed grids to ensure its offshore wind development. Meshed grids are clusters of offshore wind farms with fewer cables connected to the shore that can route power to two or more national grids. In total, governments across... Continue Reading →
(OE) Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi will collaborate with floating wind technology firm Odfjell Oceanwind and Source Galileo to pursue a pilot project for floating offshore wind at its Goliat oil field in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The Goliat platform is currently electrified and is supplied with power from shore through a... Continue Reading →
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