344 results found for 'Aasta Hansteen'

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  • Seadrill loses another rig contract

    23 May 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has received another notice of termination for convenience, this time from the oil company Statoil and related to the contract for the West Hercules semi-sub rig.  Seadrill also recently got a notice of termination for a drillship contract it had with ExxonMobil. The rig’s contract with ExxonMobil in Nigeria was to expire in […]

  • Norway’s oil & gas output to shrink as offshore workers scale up strike action

    4 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Dispute over wage demands threatens to reduce oil and gas production in Norway, as offshore workers are likely to down their tools this week.

  • Highlights of the Week

    16 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 10 – April 16). Nord Stream 2 AG said it has signed a contract for offshore pipelay of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea with Allseas on 6 April 2017. The contract […]

  • Wärtsilä Equipment Selected for World’s Largest Spar Platform

    16 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    A new spar platform being built for Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field off the coast of Norway will feature Wärtsilä’s Inert Gas and Nitrogen Generator systems. The contract has been issued in the first quarter 2014 by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) of South Korea, the yard building the platform. The Wärtsilä Inert Gas Generator will utilise […]

  • Top Videos of 2017

    2 January 2018
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Subsea World News has gathered the most popular videos of 2017. We have seen many interesting videos in the past year. Here are the industry’s most-watched clips of 2017: The Largest Jacket on NCS Standing 140 metres tall and weighing 26 000 tonnes, the first jacket for Johan Sverdrup is the largest on the Norwegian […]

  • Statoil spins drill bit at Roald Rygg (Norway)

    23 March 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Atlantic Petroleum has announced that drilling of the Roald Rygg well 6706/12-3, in PL602, in the Norwegian Sea started on March 22, 2015 with the Transocean Spitsbergen rig. The well 6706/12-3 is planned to drill to a total depth of around 3420 m TVD and operations are anticipated to take 35 days. The Nise Formation […]

  • Gassco gets green light to use Polarled pipeline

    5 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given its consent to the state-owned company Gassco to use the Polarled offshore pipeline. Polarled is a new gas pipeline from Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to the Shell-operated Nyhamna gas processing facility in Møre Og Romsdal county. The pipeline is a […]

  • Ramboll Oil & Gas Wins Polarled Pipeline Design Contract (Norway)

    10 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Statoil has awarded Ramboll Oil & Gas the detailed design contract for the 36” Polarled pipeline project (previously named the NSGI project), as well as detailed design for the 30 km 18” Kristin Gas Export pipeline connecting to the Polarled pipeline. The Polarled pipeline project, which crosses the Polar circle, is part of the plans […]

  • Van Oord: Subsea Rock Installation World Record

    14 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a world record. During a period of four weeks, Stornes placed rock in water depths of up to 1,277 meters. The Subsea Rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Aasta Hansteen gas field and Polarled pipeline in the Norwegian Sea. Van Oord […]

  • Most popular articles of the week, August 25 – 31, 2014

    31 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Coolest PSV in Norway, Rig order cancellation, Gloomy future for drillers, Helicopter lands on wrong rig, Can you count to 40 billion?

  • Centrica finds gas at Ivory prospect

    2 December 2014
    Exploration & Production

    Centrica has made a natural gas discovery at the Ivory well, in the Production Licence 538 B, offshore Norway. Atlantic Petroleum, a partner in the licence, has said that the 6707/10-3S well tested the westernmost segment of the Ivory structure, one of several prospects within the license. The primary objective of the Ivory well, located in […]

  • Van Oord Lands World Record in Subsea Rock Installation

    14 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a world record. During a period of four weeks, Stornes placed rock in water depths of up to 1,277 metres. The Subsea Rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Aasta Hansteen gas field and Polarled pipeline in the Norwegian Sea.   Recently […]

  • Subsea 7 Wins Askeladd Pipelaying Job

    22 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Statoil for pipelaying in the Askeladd field development. “The Askeladd project is being developed in a period of several key milestones for Statoil in North Norway. The Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea will come on stream at the end of the year. The Johan Castberg development […]

  • Statoil hires Transocean rig for UK & Norwegian drilling campaigns

    4 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Statoil and license partners have decided to use the semi-submersible rig Transocean Spitsbergen on three exploration wells in the UK, and then on a six-well production drilling campaign on the Aasta Hansteen license off Norway. According to Statoil’s statement on Tuesday, the exploration drilling campaign in the UK will be conducted for the Mariner, Jock […]

  • Statoil gets nod to drill Snefrid Nord well

    18 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well the 6706/12-2, cf. in the Norwegian Sea. The company will use the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig for the operation at the well, informally know as Snefrid Nord, located at the production licence 218. Statoil is the operator with an ownership […]

  • Nyhamna expansion to boost Shell’s Ormen Lange output

    10 February 2017

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted consent for the start of the expansion of the Nyhamna gas plant in the Møre Og Romsdal County, Norway. The onshore facility processes gas from the Shell operated Ormen Lange field. According to NPD’s statement on Friday, the expansion will allow Shell’s Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea […]

  • Statoil Ready for Snefrid Nord Subsea Template Installation

    8 May 2018
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has informed that it is all set for the installation of Snefrid Nord gas field subsea template in the Norwegian Sea. The announcement comes just one year after the development of the Snefrid Nord got the green light by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The Statoil-operated Snefrid Nord gas development is satellite linked to the Aasta […]

  • ABB inks frame agreement with Equinor

    17 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    ABB has signed a new frame agreement to deliver safety and automation systems across Equinor’s installed base and greenfield projects worldwide.

  • Two New Licences for Atlantic Petroleum Norge

    22 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    P/F Atlantic Petroleum announced that Atlantic Petroleum Norge AS (a wholly owned subsidiary of P/F Atlantic Petroleum) has been awarded new licences in the APA 2013 Licensing Round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) announced by the Ministry of Oil and Energy on the 21st of January, 2014. The licences PL 763 and PL 270 […]

  • VIDEO: Flexible Fallpipe Vessel Stornes

    14 November 2014

    Subsea Rock Installation, or SRI, is a proven technique for the protection and stabilisation of offshore structures. Typically fallpipe vessels are used to install the rock in water depths up to 2,200 meters. Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has recently set the world record while performing the subsea rock installation works, executed in relation […]

  • Wintershall gains permit to drill Norwegian Sea wildcat

    23 November 2017
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well located offshore Norway.  The well 6604/5-1 will be drilled from the West Phoenix semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling program for well 6604/5-1 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production license 894 in the Norwegian Sea, the NPD […]

  • Statoil boasts big investments in Northern Norway

    13 April 2018

    With projects like Johan Castberg, Polarled, Aasta Hansteen, Snefrid Nord, Askeladd and the offshore exploration campaign in the Barents Sea, multi-billion investments are lined up for Northern Norway. 

  • Kvaerner lands decommissioning gig with Shell

    10 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian engineering and construction services company Kvaerner has been awarded a contract with Shell for the disposal and demolition of the subsea compression pilot at Nyhamna in Norway.  The onshore Nyhamna facility processes gas from the Shell-operated Ormen Lange field located 140 km north-west of Kristiansund, in the Norwegian Sea. The gas from the field arrives onshore at the Nyhamna […]

  • Aker Solutions Kicks Off Snefrid Nord Project

    19 October 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Aker Solutions has started production for the Statoil-operated Snefrid Nord gas development. Aker Solutions will deliver the single-slot subsea template, a suction anchor and umbilicals for the Snefrid Nord. The subsea template and suction anchor mooring it to the seabed will be delivered from the company’s facilities in Sandnessjøen in Norway, securing work until April 2018. The […]

  • South Korea: HHI Secures Order for World’s Largest Spar Hull

    18 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading offshore facilities contractor, announced that it was awarded a Letter of Intent to construct the spar hull for a gas production platform from Statoil in a consortium with Technip on July 11. The total contract value for this project is about USD 700 million […]