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Brazil's Petrobras and Mexico’s Pemex Eye Deepwater Partnership

Mar 25, 2026

Brazil's Petrobras will discuss a possible partnership with Mexico's Pemex during a visit to Mexico next month, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday, after her Brazilian counterpart proposed joint projects in the Gulf of Mexico for the two state-run oil companies.Sheinbaum added during her daily morning press conference that she is still evaluating the offer presented last week by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva…

ExxonMobil, Halliburton Marks Automated Drilling Milestone off Guyana

Mar 26, 2026

Halliburton, in collaboration with ExxonMobil, Sekal, Noble, and the Wells Alliance Guyana team, has delivered a groundbreaking step forward in digital well construction to achieve the industry’s first fully automated geological well placement with complete rig automation in offshore Guyana…

Baker Hughes to Supply Tech for Offshore LNG Project in Texas

Mar 25, 2026

Baker Hughes has secured a contract to supply gas compression and power generation technology for ST LNG’s proposed 8.4 million tonnes per annum liquefied natural gas export terminal offshore Matagorda in Texas.Under the agreement, Baker Hughes…

ClassNK Grants Approval for CO2 Carrier Design for CCS Project

Mar 25, 2026

ClassNK has granted Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of a liquefied CO2 carrier intended to support a floating offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) injection facility.The vessel is designed to serve a Socket SPAR unit, a floating…

Brazil Eyes Petrobras-Pemex Alliance for Gulf of Mexico Oil Exploration

Mar 23, 2026

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday he had proposed a partnership between state-run energy firms Petrobras of Brazil and Pemex of Mexico to explore oil in the Gulf of Mexico.'Pemex could get a great deal of help from Petrobras…

Saipem FlatFish Underwater Drone Completes Petrobas Test Campaign

Mar 19, 2026

FlatFish, Saipem’s underwater inspection drone, has successfully completed a key phase under the contract awarded by Petrobras in 2023 for the development and testing of an autonomous robotic solution. These were Functional Acceptance Tests…

SLB OneSubsea Awarded Integrated EPC Contract by CNOOC

Mar 17, 2026

SLB has announced that its OneSubsea™ joint venture has been awarded a multi-well, integrated engineering, production, and construction (EPC) contract by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).The contract encompasses 20 wells and covers…

Seadrill Awarded Contract Extension in Angola

Mar 16, 2026

Seadrill has announced that Sonadrill Holding, its 50:50 joint venture with an affiliate of Sonangol E.P., has been awarded a contract extension.A seven-well priced option for the ultra-deepwater drillship Sonangol Quenguela has been exercised…

TVO Customizes Tethered BOP Technology

Mar 16, 2026

Trendsetter Vulcan Offshore (TVO) completed a unique tethered blowout preventer (TBOP) installation in the Gulf of America (GoA) to reduce wellhead fatigue in soft seabed conditions.TVO’s proprietary technology was essential in enabling the…

BP Wins US Approval for Kaskida Project

Mar 15, 2026

British energy major BP has received approval from the Trump administration to advance its Kaskida project in the Gulf of Mexico, a company spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement late on Friday.The $5 billion investment would unlock…

KOIL Energy Gets Job Offshore West Africa

Mar 12, 2026

U.S subsea equipment and services provider for oil and gas sector KOIL Energy has secured a contract from an international oil company to perform load out, transit, installation monitoring, and pre-commissioning services for an offshore development in West Africa…

DOF Selects Kongsberg Listen for HUGIN AUV Survey Platform

Mar 12, 2026

Kongsberg Discovery has secured the first commercial order for its Kongsberg Listen electromagnetic sensing solution, with subsea services provider DOF selecting the technology for deployment on a HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).The new HUGIN vehicle…

OneSubsea Bags Third PTTEP Subsea Systems Contract in One Year

Mar 11, 2026

OneSubsea, a joint venture between SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7, has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Thai’s PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) for subsea production systems at a deepwater project offshore Malaysia…

Petrobras’ P-78 FPSO Achieves Gas Injection Milestone in Búzios Field

Mar 11, 2026

The first gas injection on Petrobras’ P-78 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit has been achieved just 61 days after the vessel reached first oil on December 31, 2025.The milestone, achieved on March 2, 2026, marks the transition…

Exail Supplies LBL Positioning Systems for Deepwater Projects in Brazil and Angola

Mar 10, 2026

Exail is supplying over 70 acoustic transponders and integrated navigation suites for two major deepwater energy projects in Brazil and Angola. These contracts mark a significant milestone in the global adoption of Exail’s Long Baseline (LBL) subsea positioning technology…

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