云顶赌场老虎机 enhanced oil recovery pilots in the North Sea are paving the way towards helping to get more heavy oil out of the ground. Elaine Maslin reports. Biopolymer containers on Heidrun鈥檚 deck鈥
Old and new provinces continue to bring forth new activity in Latin America, from new finds in Guyana to the ongoing pre-salt programs in Brazil. Michael Borrel sets out the detail. Latin America has become increasingly attractive to both local and foreign investors鈥
Floating production firm BW 云顶赌场老虎机 has started an arbitration process against Addax Petroleum Exploration over payment for use of the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Sendje Berge. BW 云顶赌场老虎机 says Addax as鈥
Statoil and Petrobras have completed a deal seeing Statoil acquire Petrobras鈥 66% operated interest in the BM-S-8 offshore license in Brazil鈥檚 Santos basin for US$2.5 billion. BM-S-8, which Statoil estimates holds 700 MMboe to 1.3 billion boe recoverable鈥
A number of key contracts were awarded in 1H 2016 in Brazil, pointing to a recovery of the local oil and gas sector. The Polvo FPSO (right) while docked at Keppel FELS shipyard. Photo from Keppel鈥
The South American offshore market is back on the heat map, due to Exxon鈥檚 major Guyana discovery and Statoil鈥檚 interest in Brazil鈥檚 Carcará, says Rystad Energy鈥檚 Kjetil Solbraekke. Statoil took over as operator of the Peregrino field (FPSO pictured)鈥
UK-based engineering firm Wood Group has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract to provide detailed engineering and design, and procurement services on the development of the Peregrino field wellhead platform C, offshore Brazil. Wood鈥
Statoil has cut its average project cost per barrel from US$70/bbl to around $40/bbl, but the work has just started and the changes need to be permanent, even if prices increase, CEO Eldar Sætre said this morning. Speaking at the Subsea Valley conference in Oslo鈥
Despite the ongoing bribery investigations, Petrobras is ploughing ahead with new FPSOs. Pietro Ferreira, of the Energy Industries Council, outlines current contracting activity in Brazil and in Mexico. Ferreira鈥
Focus on the small South American country of Uruguay is set to sharpen after Statoil took a further stake in the country's deep offshore acreage. Statoil, which earlier this month announced it would be a partner with Total on the first deep water exploration well offshore Uruguay鈥
BW 云顶赌场老虎机 is a step closer to recovering the Cidade de São Mateus floating production vessel to shore for repairs more than a year after it was damaged in a fire. The fire, on 11 February 2015, offshore Brazil, saw nine of the 74 crew die and 26 require medical attention鈥
Statoil is to join French oil major Total in drilling the first deep water exploration well offshore Uraguay. Statoil has agreed to take a 15% stake in Block 14, a frontier block in the deep water Pelotas basin, about 200km offshore, in the the South Atlantic Ocean鈥
Wood Group has been chosen by Statoil to provide four-year operations and maintenance at the Peregrino field offshore Brazil. The contract covers two wellhead platforms (Alpha and Bravo) and modification services for both units and the Peregrino FPSO鈥
Ceragon Networks announced that Statoil, has formally awarded Ceragon Networks a five-year frame agreement, with an option to extend for five consecutive two-year periods. Most recently, Statoil has placed orders for Ceragon's IP-20 platform鈥
After just four years in production, the Peregrino field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil has passed a significant milestone, with 100 MMbo produced since April 2011. The field, jointly owned by Statoil and Chinese Sinochem, achieved the milestone on 2 August鈥
