Petrobras encountered oil at the Poraquê Alto well, marking the company’s first commercial oil discovery in the pre-salt layer of the Marlim Sul area offshore Rio de Janiero state, Brazil. Map of Marlim Sul…
Infield Systems’ Catarina Podevyn surveys the FPSO market and discusses recent projects awards. The John Evans Atta Mills MV25 FPSO, operating at Tullow’s TEN project, offshore Ghana. Photo from MODEC…
Brazil is slowly emerging from one of its worst economic crises with the country’s oil and gas sector no exception, says the EIC’s Pietro Ferreira. Peregrino A platform. Photo from Statoil/ Øyvind Hagen…
In advance of OE’s 2017 Global FPSO Forum, held in Houston this month, Audrey Leon chats with the forum’s board members to learn what is in store for the FPSO sector and discover how digitalization may play a role. Aerial…
Shell is buying the deepest floating production unit in the world, the Turritella floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in a US$1 billion cash deal that will allow the supermajor to assume operatorship of the entire Stones development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico…
ExxonMobil has awarded SBM Offshore a contract to construct, install, lease and operate a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) for its giant Liza project offshore Guyana. The FPSO is designed to produce up to 120…
Elaine Maslin surveys a variety of floating offshore wind projects due onstream in the near future. Statoil’s Hywind project. Image from Statoil. This year, floating offshore…
Premier Oil’s Sea Lion project is on the path to being sanctioned next year following substantial progress, with first oil targeted in 2021, according to partner Rockhopper Exploration. Sea Lion schematic Phase 1…
Jerry Lee profiles the development of Brazil’s giant Lula field, offshore Rio de Janeiro. The FPSO Cidade de São Vicente was brought in to perform extended well tests on a Lula NE well in 2011…
Prospects are looking up in the US Gulf of Mexico as operators make final investment decisions. EIC’s Jake Gillian outlines activity in the area. The US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) has seen somewhat…
Melissa Sustaita provides an overview of activities slated for this year’s Offshore Technology Conference. An overview of OTC 2016’s exhibition hall. Photo from Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)…
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) recognizes innovative technologies each year with the Spotlight on New Technology Award. This awards program is exclusively for OTC exhibitors and showcases the latest and most advanced technologies that are leading the industry into the future…
All eyes may be on Guyana, but there’s plenty of other countries worthy of attention in South America. Audrey Leon surveys the current spike in exploration activity in the region. Image from Anadarko Petroleum’s Q4 Operations Report…
Old and new provinces continue to bring forth new activity in Latin America, from new finds in Guyana to the ongoing pre-salt programs in Brazil. Michael Borrel sets out the detail. Latin America has become increasingly attractive to both local and foreign investors…
Ampelmann has been awarded a contract by SBM Offshore Contractors in support of an FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) maintenance campaign in the Espírito Santo Basin, Brazil. Ampelmann will provide an E-type system in January 2017 with a scope that includes transport…
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