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Havyard breaks into Brazil

Aug 29, 2014

Havyard is to deliver the ship design and equipment for four anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels that are to be built and operated by the Brazilian shipping company and shipyard group Grupo CBO. The contract has been entered into by Havyard Design & Solutions…

Ecuador joins World Energy Council

Aug 27, 2014

Ecuador formally joined the World Energy Council as a member country last Friday, 22 August. In a ceremony in Quito, hosted by Dr. Esteban Albornoz Vintimilla, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, the World Energy Council formally…

Petrobras, Foro partner on laser drilling technology

Aug 26, 2014

Petrobras and Foro Energy signed a technology cooperation agreement (TCA) for high power laser drilling research and development. The program with the Leopoldo Americo Miguez de Mello Research & Development Center (CENPES) will focus on developing…

Petrobras contracts WGK for subsea projects

Aug 26, 2014

Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has won two contracts with a total value of over US$2 million with Brazilian operator Petrobras.  In the first, Wood Group Kenny has begun a conceptual engineering study of two alternatives of pipeline heating systems for the Petrobras pre-salt Lapa field…

ABS to class ultra deepwater offloading unit

Aug 25, 2014

Houston-based ABS has been selected to class the Remora HiLoad dynamic positioning (DP) BR loading unit, a second generation of the HiLoad DP system that connects to and keeps conventional tankers in position during crude oil offloading from floating production installations…

Chariot, Azilat reach farm-in deal off Brazil

Aug 20, 2014

Chariot Oil & Gas Brazilian subsidiary signed a farm-out agreement with AziLat subsidiary AziBras Exploração de Petróleo e Gás Ltda. on blocks BAR-M-292, BAR-M-293, BAR-M-313 and BAR-M-314 in the Barreirinhas Basin, offshore Brazil. AziLat…

Pre-salt Brazil orders for FMC

Aug 19, 2014

FMC Technologies is to provide another five subsea manifolds for Brazil's Petrobras for its pre-salt fields located offshore Brazil. The order represents the balance of the 16 subsea manifolds ordered under a frame agreement signed in 2013…

Dolphin awarded seismic contract in South America

Aug 15, 2014

Dolphin's M/V Sanco Sword. Image from Dolphin. Dolphin Geophysical has been awarded a contract extension of approximately 50 days on an ongoing 3D seismic project in South America. 'We are…

Suriname offer deepwater blocks

Aug 15, 2014

Staatsolie, Suriname’s state-oil company, is offering three deepwater blocks through a competitive bid round. The blocks for bid include offshore blocks 58, 59 and 60, which lie east of Suriname in the Suriname-Guyana basin. The Suriname…

BP sanctions Juniper off Trinidad

Aug 13, 2014

BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC (BPTT) announced the sanction of its Juniper offshore gas project off the southeast coast of Trinidad. The project will involve the construction of an unmanned platform and associated subsea infrastructure…

Petrobras strikes more pay at Jupiter

Aug 13, 2014

Petrobras confirmed more hydrocarbon pay was found at the Jupiter prospect in the Santos basin pre-salt block BM-S-24 offshore Brazil. Map of Jupiter area. Image from Petrobras News Agency The…

BHI international rig count for July 2014

Aug 11, 2014

Baker Hughes issued the July 2014 international rotary drilling rig count last week, showing a total of 1382 rigs operating outside the US & Canada. International activity in July was up 38 rigs from the 1344 rigs drilling in June 2014…

Petrobras sinks bit on Libra

Aug 07, 2014

Petrobras announced drilling has started on the first exploration well on the Libra pre-salt area in the Santos basin offshore Brazil. Drilling on Libra, discovered in 2010, and estimated to contain 8-12 billion boe, comes as marine production…

What will it take to develop offshore heavy oil?

Aug 01, 2014

The Mariner development concept. Images from Statoil.  The Mariner heavy oil field took 40 years, 12 oil companies, five seismic surveys, and 18 exploration/appraisal wells to get to where it is today…

Ativatec makes its mark in Brazil’s deepwater intervention sector

Aug 01, 2014

Daniel Camerini at Ativatec’s workshop at UFRJ’s Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Claudio Paschoa.  Claudio…

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