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Equinor has, on behalf of the BM-C-33 license with partners Repsol Sinopec Brasil and Petrobras, awarded a contract for subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) to TechnipFMC, and a sales and purchase agreement (SPA) for the delivery of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to MODEC. “We are pleased to award these contracts..

During CERAWeek, Petrobras and Equinor have signed a letter of intent that expands the cooperation between the two companies to assess seven offshore wind power generation projects. The letter of intent expands the cooperation between the two companies to assess the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of seven offshore wind power generation projects off the..

The recent pre-salt oil discoveries, in the Central Alto de Cabo Frio and Aram areas, open up a scenario of new extraction opportunities for Brazil. The discoveries are the result of the intensification of the extraction efforts by Petrobras, which plans to invest USD 5,5 billion in this segment in the next five year. The..

Petrobras, the operator, and Equinor successfully started production from the first two wells of the increased oil recovery (IOR) project at Roncador. This represents an important milestone in the development of the field, increasing recovery rates, adding valuable production and demonstrating the potential to leverage new technology. The two wells are the first of a..

Petrobras, the operator of the Libra consortium, started contracting suppliers to execute the design, construction, installation and testing of HISEP, a technology patented by the company that aims to separate and reinject, still on the seabed, gas with high CO2 content produced alongside with the oil. The contracting started after conceptual evaluations and pilot tests..

Baker Hughes has been awarded a subsea oilfield equipment contract from Petrobras as part of the Marlim and Voador field revitalisation plan in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil. The contract includes several key technologies from Baker Hughes’ Subsea Connect portfolio and will provide Petrobras with a connected suite of solutions to help drive efficiencies, reduce..

Fugro is conducting a seep survey and geochemical campaign in Block 48, offshore Suriname, for PETRONAS Suriname E&P (PSEPBV). The work for PSEBV is being conducted from the survey vessel MV Fugro Brasilis and involves geophysical data collection, heat flow measurements, core sampling and onboard geochemical analyses, which aim to optimise future exploration activities in this..

OOS Tiradentes, the Semi-Submersible Accommodation Vessel managed by CIMC Raffles, received the notice to resume operation by Petrobras to return to the Campos offshore oilfield in early August 2020 for its annual DP test, and then after to provide offshore accommodation service for Petrobras P-40 campaign at early September 2020, making it the first accommodation..

Aker Solutions and a group of the world’s leading oil and gas operators have come together in a joint industry project with the aim of making subsea gas separation a reality. Using CO2 injection to increase recovery rates in offshore oil and gas fields can improve the economics of a field significantly, but so far, the..

Total announce first oil from the Iara license (Block BM-S-11A), located in the deepwater Santos Basin pre-salt. This marks the start-up of the FPSO P-68, the first of the two floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSO) already launched and to be installed on the license. The second, the P-70, is expected to come on..

Petrobras reports that the Board of Directors, in a meeting held yesterday, elected, effective 1 October 2019, Mr Nicolás Simone for the role of Digital Transformation and Innovation Executive Officer, a new area of the Company that will be deployed after the General Shareholders Meeting to be held on 30 September 2019. The new Petrobras..

Total and its partners have taken the investment decision for the second phase of the Mero project (Libra block), located deep offshore, 180km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in the prolific pre-salt area of the Santos Basin in Brazil. This decision follows the production start-up on the field in November 2017 (Early Production..

Petrobras reports it started today, with its partners of the BM-S-11 Consortium, the production of oil and natural gas through P-67 platform, in the Lula Norte area, in the pre-salt of Santos Basin. With capacity to process up to 150 thousand barrels of oil and compress up to 6 million m³ of natural gas per..

Total has started up production on 29 December, 2018 from the Egina field, located in around 1,600m of water depths, 150km off the coast of Nigeria. At plateau, the Egina field will produce 200,000 barrels of oil per day, which represents about 10% of Nigeria’s production. The FPSO unit used to develop the giant Egina..

OOS International is filled with pride to introduce a new semi-submersible accommodation vessel (SSAV), the OOS Tiradentes (previously named CR-600), destined to enter the OOS International fleet. This vessel, named after a famous independence hero in Brazil, will departure from Yantai to Brazil in February 2018 and be stationed in Brazil under contract with Petrobras…

Holding OOS International Group is pleased to announce it has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Merchants Industry Holdings for the basic design and construction of the largest SSCV in the world, the OOS Zeelandia, a new Semi-Submersible Crane Vessel. OOS has revealed the OOS Zeelandia during the EU-China Blue Industry Cooperation Forum on..

Teekay Offshore Partners has announced that its jointly owned floating production storage and offloading unit, the FPSO Pioneiro de Libra (Libra), has successfully achieved first oil and commenced its 12-year charter contract with a group of international oil companies, including Petrobras, Total, Shell, CNPC and CNOOC Limited, on the Libra oil field where it will..

Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has been awarded a large 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Santos Basin in Brazil. Seabed Geosolutions’ new Manta node system will be used. The seven month contract is valued at around EUR 80 million and is scheduled to commence at the end of..

OOS International strives to provide the best customer service and exceed expectations every day. The company strongly adheres to a positive safety culture, follows occupational health procedures, supports environmental aspects and continuously improves quality. The company sets key performance indicators and targets for QHSE issues, benchmarks and reports against the highest available standards. With a..

Hatenboer-Water has supplied three fresh water generators for the Pioneiro de Libra oil production vessel built by Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd. The order consists of three reverse osmosis type fresh water generators. Two of the generators are topside installations in heavy duty box frames suitable for a hazardous Ex Zone 2 area. The Pioneiro de..

Incat Crowther is pleased to announce the recent delivery of the final six of twelve 48m DNV Classed DP-1 Monohull Fast Supply Vessels built by ETP Engenharia in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Baru Serrana, Baru Tesoro, Baru Sinu, Baru Sirius, Baru Taurus, and Baru Vega were all delivered over the last several months by ETP..

Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Brazil, BrasFels, has delivered P-66, the first of the Replicante series of Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units, to Tupi. Tupi is a consortium formed by, Petrobras (operator, 65% ), BG E&P Brasil (a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, 25%) and Petrogal Brasil (10%)P-66 departed the shipyard on..

On 14 December Petrobras and its partners celebrated a milestone: they have now produced one billion barrels of oil in the pre-salt layer. This total output was achieved just six years after the first production system came on stream in Santos Basin, in Lula field, and ten years after the first discovery, in 2006. In..

2 December marked the naming ceremony of FPSO Pioneiro de Libra, which is owned through a 50/50 joint venture between Odebrecht Oil & Gas and Teekay Offshore (OOGTK joint venture). The ceremony took place at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore where the conversion of the Libra FPSO has been taken place since 2014. The unit,..

Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) is pleased to announce the delivery of the well intervention vessel Siem Helix I. The vessel is the first of a series of two ordered by Siem Offshore in February 2014 and will be operated by Helix Energy Solutions to execute subsea well intervention operations for Petrobras in Brazil. The vessel is a..