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SDSV offers in
Last Monday, Petrobras received firm offers for Shallow Diving Support Vessels (SDSVs) in the public tender nº 7004114860. The tender sought to hire diving vessels with and without ROV, in two different mobilization windows, March 2024 and March 2025. Most of the offers presented were aiming at the earliest mobilization, and equipped onboard with a […]
oceanicasub XI arrives
Oceanicasub XI, a 2009 built PSV acquired by Oceanica that will be modified into yet another RSV for Petrobras has arrived in Brazil to start the adaptation process. This vessel is the last in a series of 3 PSVs that will be converted into RSV for Petrobras’ contracts. Oceanica sub XI will follow the same […]
Enauta reduces production
Enauta informed the company’s total production reached 40.6 thousand boed in September, a reduction of 79.4% compared to the previous month, when production reached 197.1 thousand barrels. The numbers were already ex pected by the market as in September, production at the Atlanta Field, in SantosBasin, was interrupted for maintenance. The normal production is expected […]
shell drilling is concluded
Shell has concluded another drilling campaign in Brazil. The drilling activities led by semi-submersible rig Noble Developer and supported by PSVs Tantalus Tide, UP Rubi and Vega Challenger at the CM-659 block have officially ended, with all units now being demobilized from their respective Shell contracts. The CM-659 block was acquired by Shell (40%) in […]
petrobras gains license
Petrobras received the license from the Brazilian Institute forthe Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) to drill a well in deepwaters in the Potiguar Basin, in Brazilian Equatorial Margin. The drilling is expected to begin in November. The well will be drilled 52 km off the coast. The Brazilian state-owned company wants to explore to obtain more […]
new posidonia PSV
The PSV 3000 type Posidonia Tiger has sailed from Malta bound for the Port of Suape, state of Pernambuco, with arrival scheduled for 20 October. The vessel is being mobilised as chartered to Petrobras without more details being disclosed. Her main characteristics are: built in 2012, liberian flag, of 3.204 t DWT, current draft is […]
Reduction in production
The ANP (National Oil Agency) released the Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production informative report for last August. Total production (oil + natural gas) was 4,392 million boed, out of which 3.282 million were in the pre-salt or 74.7%. In relation to oil, 3.462 million boed were extracted, a reduction of 1.4% compared to the […]
new charter for PSVs
Saipem fixed PSV 3000 Astro Cmt Matos and PSV 4500 UP Rubi for 60 days firm plus options each. The vessels will take over the supply duties scope under the Búzios V project that were being carried out by PSVs 4500 Larus and Píguim, of owners Wilson Sons Ultratug Offshore. The Wilson Sons vessels are […]
ipiranga on the move
Ipiranga, the second largest Brazilian fuel distribution company, performed its first MGObunker operation in Guanabara Bay. In February this year, the company engagedin the bunkering business employing the bunker barge CD Leblon which hasbeen supplying LSMGO at Rio Grande port since then. Now, with the charter ofanother bunker barge – CD Santos – the company […]
mcdermott award
McDermott has been awarded a transportation and installation contract by PRIO for the Wahoo field, in Campos basin. McDermott will perform the transportation and installation of approximately 30 kilometers of coated 10-inch rigid pipelines and associated subsea structures. Once installed, the pipelines will connect the Wahoo field to the Frade floating production storageand offloading unit. […]
alpha star new contract
Constellation signed a new three-year contract with Petrobras worth US$392 million for the charter and operation of the Alpha Star semi-submersible. Currently, the vessel is chartered to 3R Petroleum, with a contract in place until August 2024. The unit can be used on the Brazilian coast and there is no definition as to where she […]
norbe VI under maintenance
The Norbe VI drillship from Foresea, arrived in Rio de Janeiro to modernize control systems and general overhaul which includes cleaning, painting, maintenance of thrusters, cranes and piping, among other services. The scheduled stoppage time is 60 days. Thereafter, it will be made available to Petrobras to be employed in the Campos Basin under a three-year contract Norbe VI is a sixth-generation semi-submersible […]
P-33 decommissioning
Petrobras published the sale notice for FPSO P-33, currently located in Marlim field, Campos Basin. The tender will follow the same decommissioning model as the P-32, within the rules for recycling and sustainable destination of the company’s vessels. The notice requires competitors to be Brazilian with a mandatory dry dock. Interested companies have a deadline […]
equinor developments
Equinor has submitted to ANP the Declarations of Commerciality and Plans for Development for two fields in Campos Basin in partnership with Repsol Sinopec and Petrobras in the consortium. The suggested names for the fields are Raia Manta and Raia Pintada and they are significant natural gas fields that will play a key role in […]
new charter for Foresea
Foresea signed a new contract with Petrobras to charter the 6th generation Norbe VIII drillship. The agreement will be valid for three years and worth US$450 million. The vessel has a water depth of up to 3.000 meters, capable of drilling wells of up to 12.195 meters.The new contract shows the company’s strength in the […]
petrobras is back again
Petrobras hit the market once again with more simultaneous tenders to charter OSVs to their fleet. Three new opportunities for PSVs, AHTS and OSRVs are out, this time with a twist. Not only the Petrobras disclosed the number of vessels they intend to hire from each tender (up to 20 PSVs, 12 OSRVs and 1 […]
totalenergies tender
Last week, TotalEnergies received offers for the two tenders they had released in the market back in early August 2023. One of the tenders sought to charter an AHTS vessel whilst the other up to 3 PSVs. These tenders aimed to contest the position of all the vessels currently operating in TotalEnergies’ fleet which are […]
DS-15 chartered to BP
Valaris announced that it signed a contract to charter the DS-15 drillship to BP. The contract will is for a 80 days period between March and May 2024 with the drilling of a well. The daily rate is US$410,000 without mobilization payments nor any additional services, totalling at least 33 million in the final work.Since […]
Petrobras signs contract
Petrobras announced it has signed a contract with Porto do Açu, located in São João da Barra, north coast of Rio de Janeiro state. The contract, worth US$9.8 billion, will provide support for the sustainable decommissioning of 26 platforms across three years to the oil company. The agreement indicates the use of docks while the […]
FPSO Sepetiba in Brazil
The FPSO Sepetiba arrived in Brazil and will proceed to Mero field, in Santos Basin. The vessel has the capacity to produce up to180.000 boed, 12 million cubic meters of gas and a storage capacity of1.400.000 barrels of oil. The production is expected to begin in the lastquarter of 2023. It was built in China by […]
enauta restart production?
Enauta informed they´ve resumed planning the return to production in Atlanta field, in the post-salt Santos Basin, in October. The initial expectation was to restart the process in September. however, the company stopped production in July after failures in the electrical components of the submarine pumping equipment, discovered during a scheduled stop for maintenance of […]
tenders are postponed
Following the previous postponement of the AHTS tender to September 25th, last week Petrobras also opted to extend the deadline to present offers for both the SDSV and RSV tenders. Both opportunities will now receive offers by October 2nd, granting 2-week and 1-week extensions for the SDSV and RSV tenders, respectively. All three bids fall […]
petrobras new plans
Petrobras plans to install 11 new platforms to produce in the pre-salt by 2027. With the new projects and the units already in operation, the estimate is that the company will produce 3.1 million boed within four years, of which 2.4 million in the pre-salt. As for production with partners, the company intends to produce […]
FPSO interdicted
The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) interdicted the FPSO Cidade de Santos, located in the Uruguá and Tambaú field, in Santos Basin. The decision comes after the agency’s inspectors found “critical deviations” in the vessel’s installations, such as degradation in the pipes and in the fire detection system. The vessel will be interdicted until maintenance is […]
petrobras RFI
Petrobras released a new RFI to screen the market for several vessels on medium to long term basis. The RFI was split into two questionnaires: the first one foreseeing possible demands for PSV, OSRV and AHTS-TS/TO between 2025-2026. Among the information required by Petrobras are mobilization windows for both Brazilian and Foreign flagged vessels within […]