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Petrobras tendering for abandonment work, DSJ 300 in the lead

September 17, 2021
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Petrobras received seven proposals for chartering a jack-up rig for operation in the Northeast. China Union Offshore presented the best price for the charter of a self-elevating intervention rig for operation in water depths from 12 to 50 m. The Asian group offered the DSJ300 jack-up, with a daily rate of US$72,000 plus a mobilization fee of US$4.32mm Source:

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Subsea 7 awarded feed contract from Aker BP

September 17, 2021
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Subsea 7 has announced the award of a contract by Aker BP for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for the NOA Fulla development project, offshore Norway. NOA Fulla is located in the southern part of the NOAKA area in the Norwegian North Sea.  The awarded work is required to finalize the technical definition of the proposed development prior to Aker

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DOF awarded long term contract with Petrobras

September 17, 2021
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DOF's Brazilian subsidiary Norskan has been awarded a new long-term contract and extended another one with Petrobras. Skandi Botafogo, (AHTS 180 t BP) has been awarded a 3-year contract with Petrobras to operate as AHTS with startup in 4th quarter 2021 and 500 optional days to be mutually agreed. Skandi Amazonas (see photo), (AHTS 21,000) has been awarded a 1-year extension on a contract

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PV Drilling awarded new contracts

September 17, 2021
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Petrovietnam Drilling and Well Service Corporation (PV Drilling) has been awarded new contracts for its jackup rig fleet by Vietsovpetro and Thang Long joint operating company (JOC) in Vietnam. Vietsovpetro has contracted the 2007-built PV Drilling I from mid-September 2021 at Block 09-1, covering two firm wells and one optional well. Currently, the jackup is serving the drilling campaign of

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Repsol Sinopec award Well Safe Solutions with 14 well P&A

September 17, 2021
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Repsol Sinopec has awarded a multi-million-pound contract to Aberdeen-based Well-Safe Solutions to execute the decommissioning of all wells in its Buchan and Hannay fields. The contract is the first fully-inclusive well decommissioning contract of its kind and enables Repsol Sinopec and Well-Safe Solutions to manage efficiencies, knowledge and cost.  The schedule control provided as part of this contract

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Permanent Offer Program launches in Angola

September 14, 2021
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Angola’s National Oil, Gas and Biofuel’s Agency (ANPG) Administrator César Paxe officially announced the Agency´s efforts to increase oil and gas exploration at AOG 2021; A new permanent offer program will allow ANPG to negotiate the exploration of available petroleum-based resources throughout the year without the need for a tender announcement; The announcement was made at Angola

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Melbana Energy spuds Alameda-1 exploration onshore Cuba

September 14, 2021
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Melbana Energy has spudded the Alameda-1 exploration well on 13 September 2021, Cuban time. The Alameda-1 well, being drilled in Block 9, will test three separate targets with a combined prospective resource (best estimate) of 141 million barrels of oil. Conditions at site are good and an additional 14 containers of contractor materials and equipment arrived at port on schedule on 13

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Energean selects Halliburton for offshore Israel drilling campaign

September 14, 2021
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Halliburton has been awarded an integrated services contract to execute a three to five well drilling and completions campaign for Energean, an independent E&P company focused on developing resources in the Mediterranean and the North Sea. The work follows a successful four well offshore drilling campaign that Halliburton previously executed in the Karish and Karish North gas fields. Halliburton will

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Equinor reaffirms its commitment to Angolan exploration

September 13, 2021
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Senior Vice Presidents of Equinor Exploration and Production International, Paul McCafferty and Gustavo Baquero, and Nina Koch, Equinor’s Country Manager, attended the high-profile Angola Oil & Gas (AOG) 2021 in Luanda on the 9th-10th of September. Reinforcing their commitment to Angola, as well as their successful collaborations with the Angola authorities, McCafferty, Baquero and Koch drove a strong

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