Deepwater

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August 26, 2021
Transocean announced that BOE Exploration & Production awarded Transocean a $252 million firm contract for its newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship, the Deepwater Atlas, including a mobilization fee of $30 million.
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August 18, 2021
ABS has brought together leading companies in the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) sector to address the safety challenges produced by a fleet where more than half of the ship type vessels are over 30 years old, and a quarter are over 40 years old.
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August 18, 2021
Silixa announced the successful installation, validation, and borehole seismic acquisition from a permanently installed fiber optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing system, Carina Subsea 4D, on BP’s Atlantis Phase 3 subsea field development.
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August 16, 2021
Tracerco has been awarded three subsea inspection contracts to provide critical asset integrity data on pipelines of a major operator in the Gulf of Mexico.
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August 13, 2021
Pemex fought tooth and nail to wrest control of the country’s biggest private oil find from the companies that discovered it. Now it has found itself without the cash to actually develop the field.
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August 12, 2021
Brazil alone is expected to contribute around 23% or 1.3 million barrels per day of global crude oil and condensate production in 2025 from key offshore planned and announced projects that are expected to start operations between 2021 to 2025, according to GlobalData.
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August 01, 2021
SEAJET Systems, a build to order controlled flow excavation solutions provider, has signed a manufacturing partnership with Soil Machine Dynamics, the world’s largest independent designer and manufacturer of specialist subsea intervention equipment.
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August 10, 2021
The contract is for the provision of RLWI services onboard the M/V Island Venture, C-I’s flagship intervention vessel commissioned in 2017.
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August 10, 2021
Over 35% of the acreage available in licensing rounds that are either open or scheduled to close in H2 2021 are located in shallow water, while ultra-deep water and deepwater acreage account for 24% and 19%, respectively, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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August 10, 2021
Oceaneering International has been awarded a contract from Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited to provide two surveys offshore Guyana.
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August 10, 2021
Driven by Baker Hughes’ Subsea Connect early engagement approach, Baker Hughes will provide Chevron with a subsea compression manifold structure including module and foundation, as well as the latest optimized version of its horizontal clamp connector system and subsea controls for the manifold structure.
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August 09, 2021
GATE Energy has been selected by Shell Offshore as the provider for facility commissioning of the Whale development. Scope includes commissioning planning, onshore commissioning execution, and offshore commissioning / ready-for-startup services.
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August 09, 2021
Tenaris has been awarded the supply of a complete package of products, technologies and services for the Libra offshore exploratory block - renamed Mero 3 - in Brazil’s pre-salt, one of the largest deepwater discoveries in the world.
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July 29, 2021
APA Corporation announced drilling success and updated the status of its appraisal program offshore Suriname in Block 58. The primary objective of the first phase of the appraisal drilling program is to deliver a fast-track, black oil development.
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July 28, 2021
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that it has secured an order from DOF Subsea to supply two of its improved 200HP Perry XLX-C work-class remotely operated vehicles.
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July 28, 2021
ExxonMobil reported a significant discovery at Whiptail in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The Whiptail-1 well encountered 246 feet (75 meters) of net pay in high quality, oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs.
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July 27, 2021
Oceaneering International and DDK Positioning Limited have entered into an agreement for the provision of GNSS augmentation service and all associated software and hardware supporting Oceaneering’s C-Nav Positioning Solutions group offerings.
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July 26, 2021
The Whale development, owned by Shell Offshore Inc. and Chevron U.S.A. Inc., is expected to reach peak production of approximately 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and currently has an estimated, recoverable resource volume of 490 million barrels of oil equivalent.
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July 26, 2021
Outside of the U.S. and OPEC, Brazil is set to add more crude production through 2026 than any other country. It wants to double crude output by 2030 to become the world’s fifth-largest exporter, and even if it doesn't hit that target, low-cost oil plays have positioned the country well to emerge as one of the world's most important sources for production growth.
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July 20, 2021
BHP has long said the oil business was one of its strategic pillars, and argued that it will make money for at least another decade. But as the world tries to shift away from fossil fuels, the company wants to avoid getting stuck with assets that become more difficult to sell, according to insiders.
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