Hansa Heavy Lift has transported five pipe racks and three modules, weighing a total of 1871.51-tonne and measuring 24,075cu m, for a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, the P-67, due to be stationed off the coast of Brazil…
Seadrill has received a notice of termination from Pemex for the West Pegasus drilling contract, effective 16 August 2016. Seadrill says it has disputed the grounds for termination and is reviewing its legal options. During Q2 2015…
SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad has delivered its sixth and final pipelay vessel (PLV), the Sapura Rubi on schedule to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A (Petrobras) and the vessel started work in Brazil on 14 August 2016. Image of the Sapura Diamante…
Noble Corp. is adding to its cold stacked and warm stacked list, in addition to receiving an early termination notice, and signing a short term contract with Apache. Noble Tom Prosser, from Noble…
Technip and DOF Subsea’s 50:50 joint venture TechDof Brasil has taken final delivery of the pipe-lay support vessel (PLSV) Skandi Açu, and started its eight-year charter contract with Petrobras on 13 August. Skandi Açu…
Total E&P Uruguay awarded Fugro a contract to support its drilling campaign offshore Uruguay. The contract provides for ROV and tooling services in the Raya-1 prospect in 3400m water depth. Fugro is supplying two state-of-the-art 200hp FCV 4000D work-class ROV systems and subsea tooling…
Australia's BHP Billiton has made a gas discovery on the deepwater LeClerc play-opening well offshore Trinidad and Tobago. BHP had been drilling for oil. The LeClerc 1 ST01 well was drilled in Block 5, in 2500-8500ft water depth, 135mi…
InterMoor's Brazilian subsidiary successfully completed its involvement in the decommissioning operations of the OSX-1 FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading). InterMoor was responsible for the disconnection of the submerged turret production system (STP)…
Norwegian part-state owned oil giant Statoil and Brazilian state oil firm Petrobras have agreed a deal which will see Statoil acquire Petrobras’ 66% operated interest of the BM-S-8 offshore license in Brazil’s prolific Santos basin. The US$2…
Independent explorer Tullow Oil has returned to a profit and is looking forward to first production on its TEN project offshore Ghana next month, on schedule, and focusing its exploration efforts on South America. TEN, a floating production…
SapuraKencana’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SapuraKencana Mexicana has been awarded a contract worth approximately US$113 million from Pemex. The contract is for the procurement and construction of a 36in, 18km-long sour gas pipeline (KMZ…
Norway-based geoscience firm Spectrum started a 15,000km multi-client 2D survey offshore Brazil in the Santos and Campos Basins. The new acquisition program is an outboard extension of Spectrum's 2012 Santos Campos Phase 1 survey, and will tie other programs in the Santos…
SBM Offshore and Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) will resume normal business relationships after a US$163 million settlement agreement over allegations relating to the Lava Jato scandal was reached amongst the Dutch floating production specialist firm and Brazilian authorities last week…
SBM Offshore shows its fleet of floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessels and operations offshore Brazil, in particular its Brasa yard in Niteroi (near Rio de Janiero). OE profiled the yard in 2013. The company’s latest FPSO…
Petrobras has started production from the Cidade de Saquarema floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit on the giant Lula field, offshore Brazil. Cidade de Saquarema, from SBM Offshore…