The FPSO built for the BP-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has set sail towards the project site off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal.The FPSO departed the Cosco shipyard in Qidong, China, on Friday…
IMA/WER has just completed its Annual Review and Five-Year Forecast of Orders for Floating Production Systems. The report:•provides a detailed look back at developments in the deepwater sector over the past year,•assesses 12 underlying market…
Exxon Mobil Corp. is preparing to approve its fifth oil production project in Guyana and is considering taking additional exploration acreage, the head of its Guyanese operations, Alistair Routledge, told Reuters in an interview. The efforts…
Brazilian oil firm Petrobras said that the Guanabara FPSO installed in the Mero field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, had reached its maximum production capacity, with the mark of 180 thousand barrels of oil per day (bpd). The milestone was reached about eight months after the unit started operating…
French oil major TotalEnergies has approved the final investment decision for the Lapa South-West oil development located in the Santos Basin, 300 kilometers offshore Brazil.The company operates the project with a 45% interest. Its partners are Shell (30%) and Repsol Sinopec (25%)…
FPSO leasing firm BW Offshore has signed another short-term extension for Abo FPSO offshore Nigeria.The contract extension is with Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd, a subsidiary of the Italian oil firm Eni. The extension runs until March 31, 2023…
The Malaysian FPSO leasing company Yinson has completed the 16-year contract for FPSO Adoon in Nigeria as the client Addax decided to buy the FPSO.The contract for the FPSO which has been operating at Block OML 123 offshore Nigeria, had an original term of 8 years until 2014…
Oil and gas company BW Energy has started drilling the first production well on the Hibiscus / Ruche Phase 1 development in the Dussafu Block offshore Gabon. The company said Monday that drilling operations had started in the first week of January…
Norway's Aker Solutions will upgrade Altera Infrastructure's Petrojarl Knarr floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) to be redeployed at Equinor's Rosebank field development, offshore the UK. Petrojarl Knarr was built by Samsung…
Hess Corp on Thursday said drilling results expected this month could add a seventh platform in Guyana, which would lift the nascent oil producing nation's output above the 1.2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day planned.The U.S. oil producer…
Oslo-listed FPSO leasing firm BW Offshore has signed a short-term contract extension for the Abo FPSO in Nigeria.The contract, which runs until January 14, 2023, is with Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd, a subsidiary of the Italian oil giant Eni…
The Brazilian oil company Petrobras has launched a tender for the supply of two FPSOs for the shared reservoirs of Atapu and Sépia, with bids expected to be received in July 2023 and production to start in 2028. The offshore production units…
The Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras has started oil production from the P-71 FPSO in the Itapu field, in the Santos Basin pre- salt area, 200 km offshore Rio de Janeiro. The P-71 FPSO can process up to 150,000 barrels of oil and 6 million m3 of gas per day…
Malaysia's FPSO leasing company Yinson has secured a one-month contract extension for its Adoon FPSO in Nigeria.The contract was signed with client Addax, a Sinopec subsidiary, on December 16, 2022 and will run until January 2023.The value of the contract extension is estimated to be $3…
Dutch FPSO leasing company SBM Offshore said Tuesday that production had resumed from its FPSO Cidade de Anchieta, offshore Brazil, after a lengthy shutdown.The Cidade de Anchieta, under contract with Petrobras in Brazil, has been shut down since January 22…