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September 15, 2024
Set to face a shortfall of natural gas at the start of next year, Colombia’s hopes are riding on the future potential of its deepwater wells. Ecopetrol’s offshore chief, Elsa Jaimes, said in an interview last month that production from Caribbean waters could come online as early as 2029, depending on approvals from local communities and securing environmental licenses.
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September 11, 2024
The 225,000 bpd Almirante Tamandare production vessel is on route and set to arrive in Brazil this year, and a similar unit is near completion at a Chinese shipyard and will arrive in 2025. SBM is also waiting for Petrobras to re-launch a tender for two FPSOs for an offshore project in the Sergipe-Alagoas basin.
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September 09, 2024
The four new contracts encompass four heavy-size helicopters Sikorsky S-92A to support Petrobras in the pre-salt Santos basin. CHC will provide crew change flights to over 60 offshore units operated by Petrobras and its partners from Jacarepaguá and Maricá airports, located at Rio de Janeiro estate, Brazil.
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September 03, 2024
bp has entered into an agreement with Perenco to divest its Immortelle, Flamboyant, Amherstia and Cashima offshore gas fields and associated production facilities, including undeveloped resources from the Parang field. The assets, except for Parang, are mature fields that have been in production from as early as 1993 and currently produce 30,000 boed.
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September 02, 2024
The nation’s economy grew by 49.7% in the first half of 2024, with the oil sector accounting for 67% of that growth, Ali said Saturday on a live webcast. Guyana produced an estimated 113.5 MMbbl of oil from January to June, and the oil sector is projected to grow by 56.4% this year, he added.
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August 29, 2024
The deal was “fundamental” to the Colombian oil producer’s future and without the resources it would have provided, its finances will deteriorate, Juan José Echavarría and Luis Alberto Zuleta wrote in their resignation letter, which is dated Aug. 30 but has already been published by local media.
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August 28, 2024
Coconut will be a 50/50 joint venture with EOG as operator. The final investment decision has been taken by the joint venture partners and first gas is expected in 2027.
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Petrobras on the hunt for shale gas deals in Argentina’s prolific Vaca Muerta to increase production
August 26, 2024
New momentum in Vaca Muerta means Argentina could export gas to Brazil as soon as next year. But instead of just importing the fuel, Petrobras would like to be involved on the production end, people familiar with the matter said.
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August 20, 2024
TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne — whose company, alongside APA Corporation, is moving to develop deepwater drilling sites that hold close to 700 MMbbl of oil — said Suriname will make a “significant” contribution to the group’s cash flows as oil revenues start flowing in 2028.
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August 19, 2024
This digital twin can increase production by roughly 1%. After two years of tests, the technology developed by the Brazilian company ESSS, based in Florianópolis (Santa Catarina), was validated and is ready for use.
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August 19, 2024
Staatsolie believes that Block 59 has “enormous investment and risk” opportunities, as the area sits in close-proximity to other highly-anticipated deepwater finds and in part of the greater Guyana-Surniame basin. The offshore region is quickly becoming the most-watched oil and gas development, as it boasts billions of barrels of recoverable resources.
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August 12, 2024
McDermott will design, procure, fabricate, hook up and commission a platform and jacket. The company will also provide design, installation, and commissioning services for a 32-inch gas pipeline that will connect the platform to a gas processing facility operated by Shell.
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August 12, 2024
Gran Tierra has successfully drilled five exploration wells in Ecuador, each leading to an oil discovery. Three of these five wells are drawing medium to light hydrocarbons from distinct geological zones, highlighting the exceptional potential of the Oriente and Putumayo basins and the significant exploration opportunities that remain within both the Charapa and Chanangue Blocks.
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August 11, 2024
Equinor's exit from Suriname is part of a broader strategy, having exited about 20 countries in recent years, including South Africa, Mexico, and Russia, the latter due to the invasion of Ukraine.
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August 11, 2024
Shale accounted for 52% of YPF’s second-quarter production of the equivalent of 539,000 bopd, up from 45% in the same period last year. Industry plans that it’s spearheading for a new shale oil pipeline are also accelerating, with drillers already negotiating to fill two thirds of capacity.
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August 08, 2024
PETRONAS has achieved success offshore Suriname with the Sloanea-2 appraisal well in Block 52, which was drilled in June. This accomplishment has bolstered PETRONAS’ prospects in the basin and opens the possibility of developing a standalone Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) project at the field in the future.
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August 08, 2024
Halliburton will provide a wide range of services to include fluids, completion equipment, wireline, slickline, flowback services, and coiled tubing, integrating and coordinating these services through Halliburton’s project management service line to ensure efficient and effective execution.
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August 05, 2024
Petrobras achieved the main target of the Uchuva-2 well, confirming the extent of the natural gas discovery made in 2022 while drilling of the Uchuva-1 well. This well adds relevant information for the development of a new frontier of exploration and production in Colombia, reinforcing the volumetric potential for natural gas in the region.
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August 02, 2024
As part of the second development of the Atapu and Sepia offshore fields, SLB OneSubsea will provide the Petrobras-standard configured, pre-salt vertical trees, subsea distribution units, subsea control systems and pipeline systems, along with related installation, commissioning and life-of-field services.
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August 01, 2024
The tale of the Guyana discovery isn’t about taking swashbuckling risks for a huge payoff. Exxon, it turns out, is as much a financial engineering company as an oil explorer. It hedged its bets, reduced its exposure and bought itself an option to make a fortune on an unlikely outcome.
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August 01, 2024
Occidental Petroleum Corp. and Ecopetrol SA are gearing up to plumb the depths of Colombia’s Caribbean waters in search of oil and gas. The plan is to drill the Komodo-1 well before the year is out in seas roughly 3,900 m (close to 13,000 ft) deep. That’s equal to about 10 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other and would shatter the current water-depth record holder in Angola.
