Oil and gas company Enauta has signed a purchase and sale agreement with affiliates of Westlawn Americas Offshore (WAO), which will acquire 20% participating interest in the BS-4 concession, which includes the Atlanta and Oliva fields, offshore Brazil.WAO is a portfolio company of Westlawn Group and owns various interests in the Gulf of Mexico offshore basins.The deal will bring $301.7 million to Enauta…
Esgian reports on new contracts for Borr Drilling and Shelf Drilling (North Sea) jackups in its Week 15 Rig Analytics Market Roundup. Additionally, Energean has selected a drillship for its upcoming drilling campaign offshore Morocco. South America remains vital to the floating rig market…
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Siem Offshore has been awarded a contract extension for the multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) Siem Dorado.According to Siem Offshore, the extension secures the utilization of Siem Dorado MPSV for a period reaching towards the end of the fourth quarter in 2024…
Brazil, Guyana and Suriname have agreed to deepen discussions on cooperation in the oil and gas sector, according to a joint statement released by the countries on Thursday after a meeting between their presidents.Guyana President Irfaan Ali…
Seatrium has delivered a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Energos Celsius to New Fortress Energy (NFE), one of the world’s leading LNG project developers.Energos Celsius is owned by Energos Infrastructure, a global marine infrastructure platform backed by Apollo funds and NFE…
Brazil is expected to join the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries in January but would not take part in the group's coordinated output caps, the chief executive of state-run oil firm Petrobras PETR4.SA told Reuters.The group's surprising…
Brazil's environment protection agency Ibama is expected to decide by early next year if state-run oil company Petrobras PETR4.SA can drill near the mouth of the Amazon River, Ibama's president Rodrigo Agostinho said on Wednesday.The area is part of Brazil's Equatorial Margin…
Guyana has gained a larger share of Europe's oil market this year, vessel monitoring data showed, driven by rising output by a consortium led by ExxonMobil and strong demand for light sweet crude grades amid a reshuffling of global oil flows…
Oil and gas companies are set to spend $58 billion on well intervention – a way to extract additional resources from an existing well instead of drilling a new one – in 2023, the Norwegian energy intelligence group Rystad Energy said.Rystad…
Brazil aims to pass a regulatory framework for offshore wind and green hydrogen by the end of this year, the country's energy minister told Reuters on Tuesday, as Latin America's largest nation seeks to unlock new sectors to power its energy transition…
The offshore oil and gas sector is back and is set for the highest growth in a decade in the next two years, with $214 billion of new project investments lined up, the Norwegian energy industry intelligence firm Rystad said in a report Tuesday…
Norwegian offshore engineering and construction firm Aker Solutions said Tuesday it had won a 'sizeable' contract with the French oil major TotalEnergies in Brazil.The contract is for the provision of the subsea production system, tools, and…
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%)…
Offshore exploration and production (E&P) capital expenditures (capex) will shake off the pandemic-induced declines of the past two years and rebound by 20% in 2022, reaching a total $165 billion spent on exploration, wells, and facilities (Figure 1)…
Brazilian power company Eletrobras and Shell have signed a cooperation agreement to exchange information as they mull a potential co-investment in offshore wind power in the South American country, Eletrobras said on Thursday.The move marks another step for Shell in the sector in Brazil…