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REGIONAL OVERVIEW increase production at its Abkatun-Pol- services and equipment for the con- by ExxonMobil to perform front-end

Chuc offshore reservoir complex, which struction of up to nine wells. engineering and design for a 100,000 b/d is made up of 18 ? elds, of which 10 are The much-delayed tender for the 20- FPSO that will operate on the Liza oil currently productive. However, the year charter of an FPSO for Libra’s pilot ? eld. Subject to a ? nal investment deci- reservoir complex is temporarily out of production project has encountered sion in 2017, SBM will also build, install service due to a ? re that destroyed the another setback. A federal court has sus- and operate the production unit.

production platform. The engineering, pended the bidding process following

Argentina procurement and commissioning (EPC) an injunction from Brazil’s shipbuilder’s

REGIONAL OVERVIEW contract for the construction of a new association SINAVAL, which claims that Meanwhile, in July 2016, in Argentina, platform was awarded to McDermott. Petrobras is not complying with local Enap Sipetrol awarded a contract to STG

Sea Trucks Group (STG) was awarded content requirements. for pipelay work on the Magallanes ? eld. a contract for its Jascon 31 vessel to pro- Another Petrobras project closely The contract scope includes, among vide accommodation and lifting services. watched by the industry is the expan- other elements, the engineering, project

During the December round, Mexico sion of the Mexilhão ? xed gas platform. management and installation of three awarded Australia’s BHP Billiton a 60% Local player Enaval was con? rmed in pipelines of different sizes.

South American operatorship farm-out to partner with September 2016 as the EPC contractor,

Michael Borrel

Pemex in its Trion development, which with Radix Engenharia responsible for is Regional is in the deepwater Perdido area. the detailed engineering.

Analyst (North

Statoil, Brazil’s second largest oil

Brazil & Central and gas producer, is progressing with

Recent offshore contracting activity in the second development phase of the

America) at Energy

Brazil has been mainly associated with Peregrino heavy oil ? eld. Cameron

Industries Council

Spotlight

Petrobras projects, with key contracts Sense, a Schlumberger unit, is un- (EIC).

awarded for the massive Libra ? eld in derstood to be supplying the drilling Michael is the the pre-salt province. In September equipment package for the ? eld’s third

EIC’s Regional Analyst for North and 2016, local company MFX do Brasil was wellhead platform, known as WHP-C.

Central America. He researches and awarded the supply of 33km of um- analyses project information and

Guyana bilicals for Libra’s extended well test, contracting activity in the oil and gas, while in November 2016, Halliburton Last December, in neighboring Guyana, power, nuclear and renewables sectors obtained a contract to provide drilling SBM Offshore was awarded a contract in these regions.

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