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Brazil Key Projects and Highlights In 2012, Brazil and its flagship, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), had to face a reality regarding their capacity to deliver on time all the fleets of drilling ships, exploration and production floating units and services vessels in respect with the local content requirements. Awarding contracts to shipyards not yet even built […]
Angola Key Projects and Business Highlights After a first wave of exploration and production of conventional oil and gas offshore fields, the major companies such as BP, Chevron, Cobalt International Energy Company Inc. (Cobalt),Eni, ExxonMobil, Galp Energia, Maersk, Petrobras, PetroChina (CNPC), Statoil and Total come back to Angola with major projects to replicate the lessons learnt from the Brazilian […]
Chevron and partners pre-qualify contractors for Ubon The US super major Chevron and its partners, the Thailand national oil company PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Ltd (PTTEP), Hess from USA and Mitsui Oil (Mitsui) are currently running the pre-qualification process to select the contractors to be invited to bid (ITB) for the construction of […]
Statoil to consider FPSO for Castberg (Skrugard-Havis) Since the Skrugard and Havis project has been renamed as Johan Castberg, some significant changes have happened to justify Statoil from Norway and its partners, Eni from Italy and Petoro from Norway, to rethink the conceptual design of the project into a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) […]
Lekoil to join YFP, Chevron and Vitol in Block OML 113 The local junior company Lekoil Ltd (Lekoil) signed a Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Panoro Energy (Panoro) from Norway to acquire its stake of the Aje project in the Oil Mining Lease 113 (OML 113). This transaction will apply to 6.502% of the […]
Petronas FLNG-2 to require MEG additional module The El Dorado, Arkansas-based, Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy) and the Malaysian national oil company Petronas are revising upward the design of their floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel for the development of the Block H, offshore Sabah in Malaysia. Since 2007, Murphy accumulates natural gas discoveries in the Block […]
Petronas calls for competitive FEED on Sepat project Since 2010, the national oil company (NOC), Petrolian Nasional Bhd (Petronas), has decided to put efforts to develop marginal fields offshore Malaysia. Around the Malaysian peninsula, Petronas identified 106 marginal oil fields representing more than 580 million barrels of crude oil that it cannot ignore any longer. These […]
Samsung to build the world largest FPSO in Nigeria In June 2013, Samsung Heavy Industries Upstream Nigeria converted a letter of appointment (LOA) into firm signed contract with Total Upstream Petroleum Nigeria (TUPNI) for the construction of the world ever largest floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in Nigeria. Samsung Heavy Industries Upstream Nigeria is the […]
