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  • Kongsberg joins Hywind Tampen crew

    21 January 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract with Wood to supply positioning and monitoring equipment for the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm. Kongsberg will supply its DPS position reference system and Motion Reference Unit (MRU) for what will be the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm. The DPS exploits all available GNSS infrastructure to deliver […]

  • Shearwater in OBS Surveys for Aker BP and Equinor

    6 February 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Shearwater GeoServices has secured an award of four Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS) surveys by Aker BP and Equinor in the North Sea. The projects will be executed by two of Shearwater’s multi-purpose vessels using proprietary technology during the 2019 North Sea summer season. “We are excited to be chosen by two major petroleum exploration and […]

  • Shell Opts for Subsea Compression on Ormen Lange

    18 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Shell said it has decided to go with subsea compression as a concept for the Ormen Lange Phase 3 to increase the recovery rate from the reservoir. The partnership will now choose between two remaining options for subsea compression; one for wet gas developed by OneSubsea and built on technology installed on Gullfaks, and a […]

  • UK and Norway’s energy transition tale spotlights oil & gas electrification, offshore wind, CCS, and hydrogen as main chapters

    19 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Westwood has looked at the UK and Norway’s net-zero targets and steps being taken to decarbonise the oil and gas industry.

  • DOF Subsea and Kværner Team Up on Hywind Tampen Marine Ops

    31 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    DOF Subsea and Kværner have signed a contract to collaborate and deliver marine operations for Equinor`s Hywind Tampen Project. The contract will be executed in a 50/50 partnership (joint venture). “Hywind Tampen will be the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm and is vital for industrialising solutions and reducing costs for future offshore wind power […]

  • Green light for Equinor to deploy well intervention vessel off Norway

    15 December 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor has received consent from Norway’s regulator to use of one of Island Offshore’s MOUs for light well intervention work in Norway.

  • Equinor Signs Up Tendeka and Baker Hughes for Sand Screen Services

    26 June 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has signed three-year contracts with Tendeka and Baker Hughes Norge for providing sand screen services at a total value of around NOK one billion, including options for five two-year extensions. The contract awards were marked at Equinor’s head office at Forus on 26 June. The sand screen technology is based on a metal filter […]

  • From idea to reality: five years since the first subsea compression system

    18 September 2020
    Environment, Equipment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Research & Development, Technology, Vision

    Five years after the kick off, the subsea compression system covering an area the size of a football field, at Equinor-operated Åsgard development in the Norwegian Sea, still runs like clockwork. The entire Åsgard field is one of the largest developments on the Norwegian continental shelf, embracing a total of 63 production and injection wells […]

  • Seismic players land multi-year frame deal with Equinor

    10 March 2021
    Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Norway’s Equinor has entered into framework agreements with PGS and Shearwater GeoServices for 4D towed streamer seismic acquisition on the Norwegian continental shelf. The two-year firm deal is starting in 2021, with two additional two-year options and can also be applied for the UK continental shelf. “This is a new way of working with seismic […]

  • Wellesley and Equinor swap development assets in Norway

    26 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Wellesley Petroleum and Equinor have signed a sale and purchase agreement covering several development assets located in Norway.

  • HSM Offshore to build offshore wind-powered gas production platform

    22 November 2022
    Technology

    Dutch metal construction company HSM Offshore has won a contract to build the first electrified ONE-Dyas N05-A gas production platform in the North Sea which will run entirely on offshore wind power. The N05-A project is part of the so-called GEMS area, an area approximately 20 to 80 kilometres north of the Ems estuary. ONE-Dyas, […]

  • Aker Solutions unveils new workover concept

    17 June 2020
    Equipment, Innovation, Research & Development, Technology

    Aker Solutions has developed a modified workover system that enables faster and more cost-effective planned interventions. The concept will pioneer on Equinor’s Visund field in the North Sea. Workover systems enable safe well access for subsea installation and completion, diagnostics, maintenance, repairs, enhanced production and finally plugging and abandonment. The operational concept entails delivering Aker […]

  • Equinor Hands Out Inspection Services Contracts in Norway

    15 November 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Equinor has selected several suppliers for inspection services on all offshore installations on the Norwegian continental shelf and onshore plants in Norway. Along with the previously announced contract by Aker Solutions, Equinor has also selected Axess, Oceaneering Asset Integrity and IKM Operations for the work, taking effect from January 01, 2020. The agreements have a […]

  • Offshore facility electrification to slash O&G industry’s CO2 emissions, Axiom says

    8 July 2020
    Environment, Exploration & Production, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Offshore energy research and advisory firm Axiom has studied how the electrification of platforms can have a meaningful impact on the carbon intensity of offshore oil and gas production. The above chart highlights Axiom’s view on how the 2020-2024 fixed production market has evolved through February to June 2020. Recent market conditions have pushed operators […]

  • Equinor all set to deploy Transocean rig at North Sea field

    20 January 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor has received consent from Norway’s regulator to use one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs at a field in the North Sea.

  • Schlumberger workers in Norway to strike over pay and working conditions

    27 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy

    Some 262 oil service workers at Schlumberger’s Norwegian entity plan to go on strike from 3 December if negotiations with employers over pay and working conditions fail.

  • VSL wins Hywind Tampen contract

    8 January 2021
    Project & Tenders

    VSL, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, will carry out post-tensioning works on the eleven floating concrete hulls for the Hywind Tampen floating wind turbines under a contract with Kværner, the EPCI contractor for the project. The company will perform the post-tensioning works of the semi-submersible concrete structures, which will require installation of vertical post-tensioning tendons […]

  • In focus: Battle to accelerate green energy programs continues

    18 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Technology

    Winter is almost here and concerns over the security of energy supplies are on the rise. Governments and industries are trying to find ways to tackle both energy and climate crises at the same time. The never-ending battle with new regulations to accelerate green energy programs and address high prices also continues. Earlier this week, German […]

  • Safety order for KCA Deutag after serious injury on Askeladden rig

    15 June 2021
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    The Norwegian offshore safety body Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has issued an order to KCA Deutag Drilling following a serious personal injury incident on the Askeladden jack-up rig.

  • Equinor CFO resigns from his role

    23 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Equinor executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) Lars Christian Bacher is resigning from his position with effect from 1 November 2020.

  • In focus: Energy security in Europe – New links to strengthen the chain

    19 May 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Ever since the first days of the Russia-Ukraine war, energy security has been one of the top global concerns and – with gas supply issues still high on the agenda and another winter coming, accompanied by recent warnings from the Dutch intelligence and NATO on potential dangers to the offshore energy infrastructure – Europe especially has been on yellow alert.

  • N-Sea to connect German offshore wind farm to Dutch gas platform

    13 April 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Dutch upstream oil and gas company, ONE-Dyas, has awarded N-Sea with a contract to install a subsea power cable between the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the German North Sea and the new, to-be-built N05-A gas production platform. The scope of N-Sea includes the complete scope comprising survey, design, supply, engineering, transport, installation, burial, termination, […]

  • Equinor hires Odfjell rig for three more wells

    18 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has chosen to use Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig offshore Norway.

  • Fresh multi-year extension for UK firm covering Equinor’s oil & gas assets off Norway

    16 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Tendeka has inked a multi-year extension deal to provide sand and inflow control technology across Equinor’s oil and gas assets on the NCS.

  • Three suppliers to bag $900 million from drilling contracts with Equinor

    16 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has extended existing drilling contracts, covering 19 assets on the Norwegian continental shelf, with three companies.