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Opportunity for Guyanese to fabricate well jumpers for ExxonMobil

Guyanese fabricators have a new opportunity to provide well fabrication and assembly services in support of ExxonMobil’s offshore operations. A June 7 request for information (RFI) indicates that the company plans to put in place a multi-year enabling agreement for...

TotalEnergies targeting ‘Tesla-like FPSO’ as milestones reached, FID nears for Suriname project

Paramaribo, Suriname - TotalEnergies announced on Wednesday that several key milestones have been reached for its first development at Suriname’s Block 58 where it is the operator. Referencing comments made on Tuesday at the 2024 Suriname Energy Oil and...

Seatrium gets topsides fabrication and integration award for Jaguar FPSO

Seatrium Limited said it was awarded a contract by Single Buoy Moorings Inc, a SBM Offshore company, for the topsides fabrication and integration of the Jaguar floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel destined for Guyana.  Seatrium’s scope of work...

Successful delivery of Prosperity, Sepetiba FPSOs boosts SBM Offshore’s Q1 revenue

SBM Offshore reported a strong performance in its first quarter results for 2024, with revenues driven by the successful delivery and operation of the Prosperity and Sepetiba floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to Guyana and Brazil. Øivind...

Another first: ExxonMobil’s Liza Unity gets ABS remote control notation

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded the world’s first REMOTE-CON Notation to the Liza Unity floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, it said in a May 7 release. Dutch floater specialist SBM Offshore delivered the vessel...

Exxon targets increased production at Liza 2 and Payara

ExxonMobil Guyana President Alistair Routledge related plans to optimize production at two Stabroek Block projects (Liza 2 and Payara) with debottlenecking activities. During a recent press conference, the official said that planned production optimization activities for the Payara project will...

July-August period for Liza projects shutdown – Exxon 

ExxonMobil’s scheduled shutdown of the Liza Destiny and Liza Unity floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to facilitate the Gas-to-Energy project pipeline hookup will occur sometime in July-August.  Country President, Alistair Routledge disclosed same at an April 30 press...

SBM Offshore secures US$250 million term loan to begin construction work on new Guyana-bound FPSO

SBM Offshore said it has secured a US$250 million term loan facility to commence construction work on the Jaguar floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel.  The tenor of the bridge loan is twelve months with an extension option for...

SBM Offshore on track to deliver ‘near zero emission’ FPSO to market in 2025

Bruno Chabas, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SBM Offshore, says the company is on track to deliver a near zero emission floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel next year. “The carbon capture solution developed in partnership with Mitsubishi Heavy...

Exxon’s 4th Guyana FPSO leaves drydock; now moored along integration quayside at Singapore yard

SBM Offshore announced on Feb. 21 that the ONE GUYANA floating, production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) has left drydock. OilNOW understands the vessel is now moored along quayside at the Seatrium yard in Singapore. It is the fourth...

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Letter-to-the-Editor: I commend the Labour Ministry’s independent assessment of FPSOs

Dear Editor, I am pleased to acknowledge the strides made by local authorities in taking the lead in managing Guyana’s...