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  • alpha star new contract

    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 will be employed and  activities are scheduled to begin in the last quarter of 2024. The charter will include drilling, completion and intervention of wells in water depths of up to 2.400 meters.

  • norbe VI under maintenance

    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 drilling platform with dynamic positioning, capable of operating in water depths of up to 2,400 meters and drilling wells of up to 7,500 meters.

  • P-33 decommissioning

    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 to submit offers by October 16. Deadlines for technical visits and bids are open until November 20th. The FPSO is 337 meters long, 54.5 meters wide and weighs approximately 49 thousand tons.

  • equinor developments

    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 the ongoing advancement of the Brazilian gas market.The development and operation in of the fields will generate more than 50.000 jobs during its full life cycle and the total investment is approximately USD 9 billion. This Project will be the first in Brazil to treat gas offshore and be connected to the national grid without onshore processing. There will be a FPSO capable of processing gas and oil/condensate that will have a production capacity of 16 million cubic meters of gas per day.

  • new charter for Foresea

    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 Brazilian market as all five vessels in Foresea´s fleet are chartered out. A few days
    ago, in fact, the company announced a semi–annual profit of almost US$100 million.

  • petrobras is back again

    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 AHTS), but for the first time in a couple of years they also revealed their infamous “indicative budget” within tender documents, which is the basis for every hiring negotiation they go through. The daily rates Petrobras is expecting to receive in such opportunities are around USD 31k for OSRVs, USD 48k
    for the AHTS and ranging from USD 26k to USD 44K depending on the size and scope of work, for PSVs. Petrobras will qualify offers based on the most competitive price disregarding anything above these thresholds. Delivery for all vessels is expected to take place between February and May 2024 and
    the deadline to submit offers is October 10, subject to changes. Brazilian or REB vessels
    as well as foreign flagged candidates will be considered for all oportunities.

  • totalenergies tender

    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 exactly 3 PSVs and 1 AHTS, operating in both production and exploratory duties. Amongst the 3 PSVs, one of them was offered a 5-year firm contract and one other, shorter duration contracts which indicates that after Total is done with their drilling campaigns, their idea might be to reduce the fleet and maintain only one PSV with ROV in support duties and one AHTS to assist offloading operations.

  • DS-15 chartered to BP

    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 2021, the ship has been operating for TotalEnergies with a contract that goes until December. After that, it will be in service for Petronas until February. After working for BP, the ship will then return to TotalEnergies, with a contract until September next year.

  • Petrobras signs contract

    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 production units are being decommissioned, until the final disposal of them is ascertained in accordance with ASG best practices (green recycling and sustainability). The Port will also provide support services to the units, electricity, among others.

  • FPSO Sepetiba in Brazil

    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 SBM and left the country in June. Now, it will undergo inspections in Angra dos Reis before sailing to Mero and start production. The vessel is chartered by Petrobras and is the second definitive FPSO to be installed in Mero field, out of a total of four. Together, they will have a total production capacity ofup to 720.000 boed. The Mero field is operated by Petrobras (38.6%) inpartnership with Shell (19.3%), TotalEnergies (19.3%), CNPC (9.65%), CNOOC (9.65%) and  PPSA (3.5%).

  • enauta restart production?

    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 the FPSO Petrojarl I. In August, commissioning and testing of new components were made. The first oil from the new platform is scheduled for mid-2024. This month, Enauta expects to complete the last producing well of the set of six wells set planned for Phase I in Atlanta and will start mooring the FPSO Atlanta.

  • tenders are postponed

    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 under the same Petrobras management (US-SUB) so it makes sense that if one opportunity is postponed, the others are too. This is the second time Petrobras is postponing these tenders. Therefore unless they still have many clarifications to provide, it´s unlikely the deadlines will change yet again.