Offshore South America News - page 121

 

Benthic bags Libra geotechnical gig

Dec 20, 2016

Petrobras, on behalf of the Libra consortium, has awarded geosciences company Benthic a contract for an offshore geotechnical investigation in the Libra field area, some 140mi off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Benthic’s portable…

KBR inks global BP work

Dec 19, 2016

Houston’s KBR has been awarded two global agreements by BP International for the provision of conceptual engineering services, and another for the provision of pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and FEED engineering services.  Each…

Brazil launches bid rounds for 2017

Dec 15, 2016

Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) held the 33rd Meeting of the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE), in which the approval of the guidelines for the 14th Round of Bids for blocks for the exploration and production of oil and natural…

Repsol sells Trinidad assets to Perenco

Dec 12, 2016

French independent Perenco has acquired a 70% interest in the Teak, Samaan and Poui Block (TSP) in Trinidad and Tobago. The interest in the fields, offshore south east of Trinidad, has been bought from Repsol E&P T&T, a subsidiary of Spain's Repsol…

SeaBird in South America deal

Dec 09, 2016

SeaBird Exploration has signed an agreement for the Northern Explorer vessel for an upcoming 2D seismic survey in South America. The project is anticipated to commence in late December 2016 and will have a duration of approximately 45 days.

Polarcus bags two South America projects

Dec 08, 2016

Polarcus received two letters of intent from two undisclosed clients for two additional marine seismic projects offshore South America. The projects, one 3D using Polarcus' RightBAND technique for broadband data acquisition and one 4D monitoring survey…

Aker completes Brazil CSE acquisition

Dec 07, 2016

Aker Solutions completed the acquisition of 70% of Brazilian CSE Mecânica e Instrumentação Ltda. The agreement includes an option for Aker Solutions to purchase the remaining 30% of the company three years from now. The acquisition…

FMC, Technip gain Brazil antitrust clearance

Dec 02, 2016

FMC Technologies and Technip announced that the pending, combination between the companies has received a clearance decision issued by the General Superintendent of Administrative Council for Economic Defense, (CADE), the Brazilian antitrust authority…

Shell buys Centrica T&T assets

Dec 01, 2016

Centrica plc entered a deal to sell its entire portfolio of gas assets in Trinidad and Tobago to Shell E&P for an initial cash consideration of US$30 million (£24 million). The assets consist of a 17.3% interest in the producing NCMA…

Troubling trends

Dec 01, 2016

For the offshore oilfield equipment and services industries, 2016 was a difficult year. Douglas Westwood’s Joel Hancock looks forward to see if there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The Maersk…

Eco Atlantic drops out of Ghana

Nov 23, 2016

Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas Ltd. entered into a deal to sell its total interest in Eco Atlantic Ghana Ltd. (Eco Ghana) to PetroGulf Ghana (PetroGulf), and is setting its focus on Guyana. Eco Ghana holds the Eco Atlantic’s interest in the Three Point West Deep Water Block…

Statoil closes Carcara, Brazil acquisition

Nov 23, 2016

Statoil and Petrobras have completed a deal seeing Statoil acquire Petrobras’ 66% operated interest in the BM-S-8 offshore license in Brazil’s Santos basin for US$2.5 billion. BM-S-8, which Statoil estimates holds 700 MMboe to 1.3 billion boe recoverable…

Farstad awarded multiple charter contracts

Nov 22, 2016

Farstad Shipping has been awarded multiple charter contracts in Brazil and Egypt. Petrobras has extended the contract for the multi-purpose supply vessel Far Swift with another year in direct continuation with present contract, until October 2017…

OGCI invests in low emissions technologies

Nov 22, 2016

In this video from Shell, the supermajor shows its efforts, along with six other major oil and gas companies, to invest US$1 billion to reduce methane emissions and accelerate deployment of carbon capture utilization and storage. The companies…

Petrobras gets US$61 million in Lava Jato win

Nov 21, 2016

Petrobras received nearly US$61 million ($204 million BRL) on Friday (18 November) in recovered funds stemming from the Lava Jato corruption scandal, with Petrobras President Pedro Parente expecting to win back a total of $1.6 billion ($5…

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