343 results found for 'Aasta Hansteen'

343 results found for 'Aasta Hansteen'
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  • Saipem wraps up pipeline installation for Equinor’s Irpa field (Video)

    28 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Vessels

    The pipelaying vessel Castorone, operated by Italian oilfield services provider Saipem, has completed the installation of an approximately 80-kilometer pipeline linking the Aasta Hansteen platform to Equinor’s new subsea tieback field, Irpa, formerly known as Asterix. The Irpa field, located at a depth of 1,350 meters, is said to be the deepest field development on […]

  • WATCH: DeepOcean wraps up ‘deepwater milestone’ at gas field in Norwegian waters

    24 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    DeepOcean has finished sliding into place foundation template structure (FTS) for an offshore natural gas field, described as the deepest field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • OMV’s Norwegian wildcat ends up being dry

    16 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of Austria-headquartered oil and gas player OMV, has drilled a dry well off the coast of Norway, using a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.

  • TGS wraps up basin seismic survey to improve imaging of volcanic region

    12 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Norway-based energy data and intelligence player TGS has completed the seismic survey in Norway’s Vøring Basin as part of a two-year campaign to advance exploration in the complex volcanic region on the mid-Norwegian continental margin. According to TGS, the survey covers approximately 8,000 square kilometers and builds on the earlier Aasta Hansteen project. It used […]

  • OMV exploration drilling marks Odfjell rig’s return to Norwegian waters

    21 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of Austria-headquartered oil and gas player OMV, has started drilling an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea using a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling.

  • Aasta Hansteen LQ completed in Netherlands

    9 November 2015
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    CKT Projects, a Dutch company building accommodation modules for the offshore oil and gas industry, is set to make a milestone when it delivers the living quarters (LQ) for Norway’s first deepwater development project, the Aasta Hansteen. According to CKT, it took the company more than two years of engineering and building to complete the […]

  • VIDEO: Aasta Hansteen Breaks Ground

    27 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Aasta Hansteen and Polarled are moving the boundaries for technology, deep waters and ripple effects on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). “Aasta Hansteen is one of the biggest and most complex industrial projects in Europe. With the Polarled pipeline, the Norwegian gas infrastructure is taken northward across the Arctic Circle for the first time. We […]

  • Safety rap for Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen management

    2 March 2018

    Norway’s offshore safety watchdog has found several faults in Statoil’s management of the completion of Aasta Hansteen development offshore Norway.

  • Statoil gets Aasta Hansteen orders

    13 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Petroleum Safety Authority has issued an order to Statoil concerning the collection of environmental data from the Aasta Hansteen field.

  • PGS to survey Aasta Hansteen area in May

    7 April 2016

    Norwegian marine geophysical company, PGS, has informed it will cover Aasta Hansteen area, in the Norwegian Sea, in 2016.  In May 2016, PGS will start acquisition of a new 4 400 sq. km 3D GeoStreamer survey over the Aasta Hansteen area. The survey is scheduled to be completed in August 2016. Fast track data will […]

  • Statoil in Aasta Hansteen, Polarled farm-downs

    12 September 2014

    Statoil has today announced it will farm down stakes in Aasta Hansteen, Asterix and Polarled projects and exit two assets on the NCS for a consideration of USD 1.3 billion, including contingent payment.

  • Aasta Hansteen topside begins journey to Norway

    28 September 2017
    Project & Tenders

    The heavy transport vessel Dockwise White Marlin, carrying the 24,000-tonne Aasta Hansteen topside, has begun its journey from Ulsan, South Korea, to Norway. According to latest AIS data, the White Marlin and the topside are several kilometers off the city of Busan and, if all goes as planned, will make their first stop in Port […]

  • Aasta Hansteen’s hull fabrication under spotlight

    27 November 2014
    Project & Tenders

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has audited hull fabrication for the Aasta Hansteen spar platform.  Statoil is the operator of the Aasta Hansteen field, lying in blocks 6706/12 and 6707/10 in the Norwegian Sea, around 320 kilometres west of Bodø. The field, which is in 1270 metres of water, is under development. Aasta Hansteen […]

  • OMS Inspects Aasta Hansteen Pull Tubes

    28 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    OMS have recently completed remote measurement and inspection of a number of 230 metre long pull tubes for Statoil’s deepwater Aasta Hansteen SPAR project, which at 1,300 metres below sea level is the first of its kind in the Norwegian Sea. Manufactured by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea at the Ulsan shipyard, the cylindrical […]

  • PHOTO: Aasta Hansteen LQ sail away

    1 December 2015
    Project & Tenders

    The photo above, sent to Offshore Energy Today by CKT Projects, shows the living quarters, built for Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen platform, being transported to Ulsan, South Korea. CKT Projects, a Dutch company building accommodation modules for the offshore oil and gas industry, told Offshore Energy Today that the LQ was loaded aboard the heavy lift […]

  • Statoil, Wintershall complete Aasta Hansteen deal

    1 December 2014

    Norwegian energy company Statoil has completed the transaction with the German oil and gas company Wintershall to farm down in Aasta Hansteen, Asterix and Polarled and exit two assets—the non-core Vega and Gjøa fields—on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The transaction will enable Statoil to redeploy around USD 1.8 billion of capital expenditure for the […]

  • Aasta Hansteen gas field officially open

    19 June 2019

    The field has been developed via the world’s largest spar platform.

  • EMAS AMC Installs Aasta Hansteen Templates

    5 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Ezra’s subsea services division, EMAS AMC, has successfully delivered a project of transportation and setup of three subsea structures on the Statoil-operated Aasta Hansteen field. The Aasta Hansteen, with a water depth of 1300 metres, is located in the Norwegian Sea, 300 km west of Bodø, Norway and represents a pioneering field development. EMAS AMC’s scope of work […]

  • VIDEO: Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen topside finally in Norway

    30 November 2017
    Project & Tenders

    The heavy transport vessel Dockwise White Marlin has delivered the 24,000-tonne Aasta Hansteen topside to Ølen, Norway.

  • PHOTO: Statoil confirms Aasta Hansteen departure

    29 September 2017
    Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian oil major Statoil has now officially confirmed the sailaway of the Aasta Hansteen topside, after posting a photo of the giant structure departing from South Korea, and leaving for for Norway. The image, showing the heavy transport vessel Dockwise White Marlin carrying the topside departing from South Korea, was shared on Thursday through […]

  • Repsol drills duster near Aasta Hansteen

    12 May 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Oil company Repsol Norge has found weak traces of gas during drilling of a wildcat well in production license 705 in the Norwegian Sea, classifying the well as dry. Repsol Norge is the operator of the license with an ownership interest of 40 percent. Other licensees are DEA Norge with 30 percent and M Vest Energy […]

  • VIDEO: Statoil awaits Aasta Hansteen topside arrival

    24 November 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Statoil has launched a video of the Aasta Hansteen topside load out and sailaway from Ulsan, South Korea ahead of its arrival to Norway. 

  • NPD Nods Aasta Hansteen Start Up

    31 August 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted consent to Equinor for start-up of the Aasta Hansteen facility in the Norwegian Sea, during the course of autumn 2018. Aasta Hansteen is located approximately 320 kilometers west of Bodø in a water depth of 1270 meters. The field is developed with a SPAR platform, a floating installation with […]

  • BMT’s riser monitoring system for Aasta Hansteen

    26 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Subsea 7 has selected BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, to supply the riser monitoring system for the Aasta Hansteen Spar, approximately 300 km off the coast of Norway. The integrated system includes an innovative suite of remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV) deployed strain, motion and position sensors to monitor […]

  • VIDEO: Aasta Hansteen spar sails away

    1 May 2017

    Norwegian oil major Statoil has posted a video of the substructure of the world’s largest spar platform, Aasta Hansteen, being floated onto a heavy transport vessel before setting sail for Norway.  Earlier this month, the substructure started its journey from Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea to Norway. The video shows the substructure being loaded onto the world’s largest […]