5154 results found for 'french guiana'

5154 results found for 'french guiana'
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  • Boskalis’ subsea rock installation vessel kicks off its first European gig with Equinor

    19 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Dutch offshore services provider Boskalis has embarked on a mission to slide into place many tens of thousands of tons of rock for Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor in the North Sea, using a subsea rock installation vessel, which previously worked mostly in Taiwan and Australia.

  • MSC Cruises and Chantiers de l’Atlantique shake hands on €3.5B deal for new LNG-fueled World Class duo

    13 November 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    MSC Cruises, the cruise division of Swiss shipping giant MSC Group, has signed a ‘massive’ shipbuilding order with France-based Chantiers de l’Atlantique for the construction of two more liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered World Class-series units. As disclosed, the order—worth a whopping €3.5 billion (roughly $4 billion)—was placed on November 12, bringing MSC Cruises’ total investment […]

  • Franco-German maritime relations strengthened as CMA CGM takes stake in EUROGATE Hamburg terminal

    13 November 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics

    French shipping and logistics giant CMA CGM Group has signed a term sheet to acquire a 20% stake in EUROGATE Container Terminal Hamburg (CTH).

  • European maritime and nuclear players ink strategic cooperation agreement

    6 November 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Safety, Transition

    France-based classification society Bureau Veritas (BV), together with thirty European companies from the French and wider nuclear and maritime sectors, has formally signed a cooperation declaration aimed at speeding up nuclear applications in the maritime industry. Formally named the “Declaration of Cooperation for Accelerating Nuclear for Maritime Applications to meet Climate Ambitions”, the agreement was […]

  • CMA CGM and Edison hit LNG bunkering milestone in Italy

    6 November 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Italian energy company Edison and French shipping giant CMA CGM have completed the first ship-to-ship (STS) LNG bunkering of a containership in Italy.

  • Seatrium entrusts another Swiss firm with work on Brazil-bound FPSO duo

    20 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Seatrium has hired Sulzer, a Switzerland-headquartered sustainable flow control innovation player, to provide pump packages for two next-generation floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels, destined to be deployed at assets operated by Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras.

  • TotalEnergies spotlights €20B poured into low-carbon progress since 2020 amid legal scrutiny

    24 October 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    In the aftermath of a court decision related to its carbon neutrality ambition, France’s energy giant TotalEnergies has shed light on its multi-energy strategy investments, highlighting its low-carbon inroads backed by a €20 billion injection over the past five years.

  • Guinard ready for French Guiana tidal installation

    6 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Guinard Energies has completed the demonstration of its P66 tidal turbine in the port of Brest ahead of its upcoming installation in French Guiana.

  • Tullow Discovers Oil Offshore French Guiana

    9 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Zaedyus exploration well (GM-ES-1), offshore French Guiana, has made an oil discovery having encountered 72 metres of net oil pay in two turbidite fans. Results of drilling, wireline logs and samples of reservoir fluids show that the well has encountered good quality reservoir sands on prognosis. The objective […]

  • Shell Spuds Fourth Well Offshore French Guiana

    13 August 2013

    Northern Petroleum Plc announces that GM-ES-5, the final well of the current four well drilling programme in the Guyane Maritime Permit (offshore French Guiana) has been spudded by Shell as Operator on 10th August 2013.   Northern, through holding 50 per cent of Northpet Investments Limited, owns a net 1.25 per cent interest in the offshore exploration licence `Guyane Maritime’. […]

  • CMA CGM, Port of Koper to create automotive logistics JV

    21 October 2025
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    French shipping and logistics giant CMA CGM Group and the Slovenian Port of Koper have signed a declaration for the establishment of a joint venture (JV) for complementary services in the field of automotive logistics

  • Shell to Become Operator of Guyane Maritime Permit in French Guiana

    9 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Northern announces that earlier today, Tullow Oil Plc (“Tullow”) in their Interim Management Statement provided the following update on well GM-ES-1, in the Guyane Maritime Permit, in which Northern has a 1.25% interest:  “In French Guiana, the Zaedyus exploration well discovered 72 metres of net oil pay in two turbidite fans. This is the first […]

  • French Guiana: Officials Seek Bids for Port of Larivot Dredging

    4 November 2011

    Ville de Matoury invites tenders for dredging works at docks A, B, C and D in the Port of Larivot, with additional works in the fairway and holding moorings to the ferry terminal. Project Period: 5 months from date of contract. Tender Details: Open Procedure. Tender Deadline: 16.11.2011. French Guiana’s main seaport is the port […]

  • Shell Drills Dry Well Offshore French Guiana

    13 November 2013

    Shell will plug and abandon the GM-ES-5 well, offshore French Guiana, after failing to hit oil, a partner in the licence said. Northern Petroleum Plc, which owns a share in the area said that the GM-ES-5, the final well of the 2012 -2013 four well exploration programme in the Shell-operated Guyane Maritime Permit (offshore French […]

  • Stena IceMAX Drillship to Work for Shell in French Guiana

    23 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Stena Drilling has been awarded a 5 year worldwide drilling contract by Shell for the new build Stena IceMAX. The drilling contract which is on market dayrates will commence this month when the vessel is delivered from the yard in South Korea. The first assignment for the vessel will be in French Guiana. Stena IceMAX […]

  • French Guiana: Shell to Begin Guyane Drilling in Mid 2012

    2 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Northern Petroleum announces plans to commence drilling in mid 2012 on the Guyane permit offshore French Guiana, to follow up on the Zaedyus oil discovery in late 2011 that demonstrated the prospectivity of this licence area off South America. This is a relatively low cost investment for Northern with high upside potential.  In the Zaedyus […]

  • Northern Petroleum: More Drilling to Be Conducted Offshore French Guiana

    17 April 2013

    Northern Petroleum Plc  announces the joint venture decision to extend current drilling operations on the Guyane Maritime permit in French Guiana. The GM-ES-3 exploration well is the second well of a four well exploration drilling campaign that commenced in 2012 to follow up the oil discovery at GM-ES-1 in 2011. The GM-ES-2 well had exploration […]

  • Shell Spuds 2nd Exploration Well Offshore French Guiana

    3 January 2013

    Shell has spudded its second well of the current four well programme in the Guyane Maritime Permit (French Guiana). The well GM-ES-3, the has been located to test the Priodontes Prospect and provide further geological data critical to gaining a better understanding of the potential of this area as a new offshore oil province. Related:  Tullow: […]

  • Russia’s Lukoil locks in deal to sell off its international assets as sanctions bite harder

    30 October 2025

    Moscow-headquartered energy giant PJSC Lukoil has said yes to a bid from Switzerland’s Gunvor Group for its international portfolio of assets in the wake of growing global sanctions, which keep tightening their hold on Russian businesses overseas.

  • Shell Starts Drilling at Cebus Well, Offshore French Guiana

    8 May 2013

    Shell has started drilling at Cebus prospect (GM-ES-4), the third well of the current four well exploration programme in the Guyane Maritime Permit (French Guiana), Northern Petroleum, which holds a stake in the permit, has announced. The drilling operations are being conducted with the Stena Ice Max drillship. Northern through holding 50 per cent of Northpet […]

  • Tullow: No Commercial Oil at Zaedyus-2 Well (French Guiana)

    4 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Zaedyus-2 appraisal well (GM-ES-2), offshore French Guiana, has completed drilling. The well, drilled 5km up-dip from the Zaedyus-1 well, encountered a total of 85 metres of reservoir quality sands with oil shows in several objectives but did not encounter commercial hydrocarbons at this location. Results of drilling, logging […]

  • Wessex Exploration: GM-ES-4 Shows No Hydrocarbons (French Guiana)

    23 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Wessex Exploration PLC announces the conclusion of drilling activities on the GM-ES-4 well in French Guiana. The well penetrated the primary and secondary reservoir objectives before drilling operations were concluded at a total depth of 6,292m. The results of the wireline logging programme has confirmed the presence of reservoir, however no evidence of hydrocarbons is […]

  • CNES Invites Bids for Pariacabo Dredging Project (French Guiana)

    14 June 2013

    Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) has invited bidders to submit their offers for the Port on the Pariacabo Kourou dredging project. This deepening program will include maintenance dredging of the river access channel, maintenance of the Pariacabo Port turning basin, maintenance of the ship berthing area to the right of the RoRo/LoLo pier and hydrographic […]

  • Petrobras’ production boost work bears fruit as SBM Offshore FPSO hits record output flow

    28 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Petrobras has confirmed a new production milestone, as a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit, owned by the Netherlands-based SBM Offshore, shatters output ceiling in a record-breaking run at a huge field in the pre-salt Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil.

  • ADNOC eyes coming aboard $50 billion LNG project with Eni and YPF in South America

    5 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Thanks to a deal with Italy’s energy giant Eni and Argentina’s oil and gas firm YPF, XRG, a subsidiary of the UAE-headquartered Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), has taken a non-binding step to join a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Sierra Grande Norte, on the South American country’s Atlantic coast.