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Spotlight: Brazil's offshore rig market
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Brazil’s offshore rig fleet is expected to grow, as federal oil firm Petrobras and private players move forward with exploration and production projects.
Petrobras has launched two rig tenders: one for chartering an anchored unit and another to hire an intervention jack-up to operate in water depths between 12m and 50m.
Petrobras currently has 24 hired rigs, including well intervention vessel Siem Helix 2.
But its fleet has just gained another unit.
On Wednesday, Transocean announced a three-year award from an oil company for the newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Aquila for work offshore Brazil. Although Transocean didn’t mention the company, a source close to the subject confirmed to BNamericas that Petrobras is the company in question.
The contract is expected to commence in the third quarter of 2024.
Requesting anonymity, the source also told BNamericas that 3R Petroleum and Trident Energy will soon contract shallow-water rigs, while BW Energy will require one for operations in 2024.
BP recently closed a one-well contract with Valaris for drillship Valaris DS-15, which will operate in the Pau Brasil exploration block.
The deal is expected to commence in the first or second quarter 2024 in direct continuation of the rig’s current program, with TotalEnergies, and has a duration of 80 days.
A priced option with the French major for Valaris DS-15 is now expected to be exercised in direct continuation of the BP contract in the second or third quarter 2024.
According to data from the Brazilian navy and oil and gas watchdog ANP, there are 34 offshore rigs in Brazil. They are detailed in the following table:
Rig | Type | Owner | Charterer |
Alpha Star | Semissubmersible | Constellation | Enauta |
Amaralina Star | Drillship | Constellation | Petrobras |
Atlantic Star | Semissubmersible | Constellation | Petrobras |
Brava Star | Drillship | Constellation | Petrobras |
Carolina | Drillship | Ventura | Petrobras |
Deepwater Corcovado | Drillship | Transocean | Petrobras |
Deepwater Mikonos | Drillship | Transocean | Petrobras |
Dhirubai Deepwater KG2 | Drillship | Transocean | Petrobras |
Etesco Takatsugu | Drillship | Etesco | Petrobras |
Gold Star | Semissubmersible | Constellation | Petrobras |
Hunter Queen | Semissubmersible | Ocyan | PRIO |
King Maker | Semissubmersible | PRIO | PRIO |
Laguna Star | Drillship | Constellation | Petrobras |
Lone Star | Semissubmersible | Constellation | Petrobras |
Noble Developer | Semissubmersible | Noble/ Maersk | Shell |
Norbe IX | Drillship | Ocyan | Petrobras |
Norbe VI | Semissubmersible | Ocyan | Petrobras |
Norbe VIII | Drillship | Ocyan | Petrobras |
Ocean Courage | Semissubmersible | Brasdrill | Petrobras |
ODN I | Drillship | Ocyan | Petrobras |
ODN II | Drillship | Ocyan | Petrobras |
Petrobras 10000 | Drillship | Transocean | Petrobras |
Siem Helix 1 | Drillship | Helix | Trident Energy |
Siem Helix 2 | Drillship | Siem Offshore | Petrobras |
SSV Victoria | Semissubmersible | Ventura | Petrobras |
Valaris DS-4 | Drillship | Valaris | Petrobras |
Valaris DS-17 | Drillship | Valaris | Equinor |
Valaris Renaissance | Drillship | Valaris | TotalEnergies |
West Carina | Drillship | Seadrill | Petrobras |
West Jupiter | Drillship | Seadrill | Petrobras |
West Saturn | Drillship | Seadrill | Equinor |
West Tellus | Drillship | Seadrill | Petrobras |
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