Seadrill
Petrobras expects first series of vessels in 2014 – 2015 On end of last year Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) signed contracts for chartering six pipelay support vessels (PLSVs) for the development of the pre-salt oil and gas fields in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Representing a total of $2.9 billion chartering contracts, these new-build pipelay vessels were […]
Setting the standard in drilling The actual Seadrill assets results from the consolidation of several companies operating in the offshore drilling sector. Registered in Hamilton, Bermuda Islands, in 2005, Seadrill Limited (Seadrill) is listed in Oslo and New York Stock Exchanges. One of the major Seadrill’s acquisition relies on the Norwegian Smedvig asa in 2006. […]
Supremus-1 and Trion-1 open Pemex new horizon The Mexican national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) made two major discoveries in a month in the Perdido Fold Belt deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico. In August 2012, Trion-1, first Pemex’s successful well was drilled only 39 kilometers from the US territorial waters by 2,540 meters deepwater […]
Chevron Rosebank to unlock one fifth of UK’s reserves Chevron and its partners Statoil from Norway, OMV from Austria and Dong Energy (Dong) from Denmark selected WorleyParson and its subsidiary Intecsea to perform the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the facilities to develop the offshore Rosebank project in UK. The Rosebank field is […]
Chevron to award FEED for Rosebank FPSO The Rosebank oil and gas field discovery is located on Blocks 213/26 and 213/27, in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, 130 km northwest of the Shetland Islands in 1,115 m of water depth on the Corona Ridge near the UK border. Rosebank is considered to be one of the biggest discoveries […]
With more than $75 billion Capital Expenditure to be invested in drilling rigs in the next 5 years, the pipeline of business opportunities in drilling rigs has never been so loaded according to Upstream, the Norwegian Oil & Gas newspaper. From their well documented analysis published in March about the drilling rigs, Upstream explains how this industry should break another historic […]
