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23 customs petroleum officers complete offshore safety, emergency response training

Twenty-three officers within the Customs Petroleum Unit (CPU) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) have successfully completed a Tropical Helicopter Underwater Egress Training (THUET) course to develop knowledge and operating procedures in offshore safety and emergency response. The training session...

Nigeria signs new PSCs to boost offshore production, improve investor confidence

Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), the state energy firm, announced the signing of a series of Production Sharing Contractors (PSC) aimed at boosting offshore oil production. Fully termed agreements were signed off with renegotiated PSCs for five oil mining leases...

JV delivers first OPITO-approved training facility for Guyana’s oil and gas industry

ODITC – a joint venture partnership between Orinduik Development Incorporated, Windsor Technologies and 3t EnerMech – is the first entity with approval to deliver OPITO-accredited training to the oil and gas industry in Guyana. The 3t EnerMech Guyana Training Centre of...

SBM Offshore aiming for ‘near-zero emissions FPSO’ by 2025 – CEO

SBM Offshore is positioning itself to benefit from the global energy transition. The company has its eyes set on achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and has announced new intermediate greenhouse gas-related targets. SBM Offshore’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bruno Chabas disclosed...

Saipem awarded US$900M in contracts for Angola’s first non-associated gas project

Italian oil services company, Saipem was awarded three contracts totaling US$900 million for works on the Quiluma and Maboqueiro gas fields development project off the northwest coast of Angola. The contracts were awarded by the New Gas Consortium comprised of...

Petrobras shifting focus to deepwater assets, selling off shares in shallow & onshore clusters

Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras has finalised the sale of all its stakes in the Fazenda Belém and Icapuí onshore fields – also called the Fazenda Belém Cluster – to 3R Fazenda Belém S.A., an oil and gas company with focus...

South America’s offshore production will exceed onshore by 2024

New wells drilled in South America in 2014 contributed to 8% of new wells globally in the offshore sector and 4% in the onshore. And according to Norway-based Rystad Energy, activity has been on a downward trend since then,...

‘One Guyana’ FPSO takes SBM Offshore’s order book to record US$31.1B – CEO

SBM Offshore’s order book hiked to a record-breaking US$31.1 billion when it secured the contract to construct the massive ‘One Guyana’ floater for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail development. This much was told to shareholders by SBM Offshore’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bruno...

Gas will cut Guyana’s emissions by more than half as demand for power set to triple – Hess

Hess Vice President for Guyana and Suriname, Timothy Chisholm, said the Gas-to-Energy project would not only power industry and economic growth in Guyana but would help provide a reliable and cleaner source of energy to help meet rapidly growing...

Gas-to-Energy: Exxon hires TechnipFMC to install risers, pipelines

TechnipFMC said Monday it was awarded a significant contract by ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, for the Gas-to-Energy Project in Guyana. The company said ‘significant’ refers to agreements valued between US$75 million and US$200 million. The funds...

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Standardization debate sharpens as deepwater players weigh speed against innovation

Operators and contractors at the World Oil Deepwater Development Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, identified standardization as a key driver...