Deepwater

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December 19, 2024
The Deepwater Development Conference (MCEDD) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sacha Luces, Deepwater Development Manager at Shell, to its Advisory Board for the 2025 event. 
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December 19, 2024
ABS has awarded Hanwha Ocean Approval in Principle (AIP) for its Pre-FEED Standard FPSO Design intended to create an asset optimized for deployment in the deep waters of West Africa.
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December 18, 2024
Seadrill has announced the ultra-deepwater drillship, West Tellus, was awarded a 1,095-day contract for the Sépia and Atapu fields in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, following a competitive tender process.
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December 17, 2024
(Bloomberg) – Shell Plc’s subsidiary in Nigeria will begin oil and gas production offshore at the Bonga North floating facility by the end of the decade.
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December 13, 2024
(Bloomberg) – Colombia wants to shorten the production timeline at its biggest deepwater discovery, the nation’s energy chief said, as it braces for a shortfall of natural gas in coming years.
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December 12, 2024
Shell Offshore has announced a Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Phase 3 Silvertip project, which will deliver two wells to boost production at the Shell-operated Perdido spar in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM).
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December 11, 2024
Tenaris and IGI Poseidon, a joint venture between Greece’s DEPA International Projects and Italy’s Edison S.p.A., have joined forces to advance the hydrogen transportation via ultra-deep offshore pipelines.
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December 11, 2024
SLB has secured an integrated services contract for all Petrobas' operated offshore fields in Brazil. SLB will oversee the construction of more than 100 deepwater wells, utilizing advanced drilling, cementing and drilling fluids technologies on up to nine ultra-deepwater rigs.
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December 09, 2024
Clariant has announced the launch of its CHEMVISION™ platform, an innovative tool designed to give real-time, data-driven insights for offshore chemical management.
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December 06, 2024
(Bloomberg) – Colombia’s biggest offshore natural gas discovery by Petrobras and Ecopetrol SA could triple the country’s reserves if the deposit is commercially viable, potentially easing the nation’s shortfall.
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December 05, 2024
The Deepwater Development Conference (MCEDD), the flagship event for innovation and collaboration in the deepwater oil and gas industry, is pleased to announce an addition to the MCEDD board from Total Energies.
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December 03, 2024
McDermott has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Repsol Exploración México S.A. for the Polok and Chinwol field development project in the Gulf of Mexico. The project's engineering delivery will be led from McDermott's Houston office.
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November 27, 2024
With just four months to go until its first day in Madrid, Spain, World Oil’s/Gulf Energy Information’s MCEDD 2025 (March 25-27), The Deepwater Development Conference, is gaining momentum with a strong agenda featuring an impressive collection of participants and topics.
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November 20, 2024
TGS announced today they have won a significant seismic survey/3D streamer contract for ONGC in the Mahanadi basin, offshore India. The Ramform Sovereign is scheduled to mobilize for the survey in January 2025 and the contract has a duration of approximately six months.
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November 20, 2024
TDI-Brooks has completed work contracted by GeoPartners, on behalf of Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname, to perform seep data acquisition, processing, interpretation and data management services (multibeam and coring) for the Suriname Seabed Piston Coring Project.
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November 14, 2024
SBM Offshore, Technip Energies and TechnipFMC all announced today the securement of major contracts for the GranMorgu field development project located in Block 58 in Suriname, operated by TotalEnergies.
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October 30, 2024
(WO) — EnerMech has completed a milestone pre-commissioning project for a major U.S. energy infrastructure company in the Gulf of Mexico, marking the organization’s largest nitrogen membrane spread to be deployed to date in this geography.
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October 29, 2024
SLB today announced the award of a contract by bp to its OneSubsea joint venture for a subsea boosting system in the greenfield development of the Kaskida project in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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October 28, 2024
Baker Hughes has won contracts with Petrobras to provide flexible pipe systems in Brazil’s pre-salt fields. The multi-year project includes risers and flowlines for hydrocarbon production and associated gas and water injection with support for equipment storage, maintenance and installation.
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October 24, 2024
(WO) — Transocean Ltd. is in talks to merge with rival offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Ltd., as deepwater drilling work is once again on the rise thanks to steady oil prices and slower production growth from U.S. shale fields.
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October 17, 2024
Transocean today announced a one-year contract for the Deepwater Conqueror with an undisclosed operator in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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