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Wintershall Norge has now submitted the development concept for the Skarfjell field development, located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Wintershall, together with its license partners Capricorn, Bayerngas, Edison and DEA, recently selected a development solution for the Skarfjell field. Under the proposed solution, the reservoir […]
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UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), in collaboration with the 21CXRM Technical Advisory Committee, has awarded two contracts for petroleum system studies for the East Shetland Platform and South West Approaches area offshore the UK. The provision of the studies has been supported by the MER UK Exploration Task Force and will complement the acquisition […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
Wintershall and its PL418 license partners have selected a subsea concept for the development of the Skarfjell field in the Norwegian North Sea. Namely, the proposed solution is that the reservoir would be connected via a subsea template to the nearby Gjøa platform. Skarfjell is situated in the northeastern North Sea approximately 20 kilometers southwest of […]
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German oil company Wintershall has selected a preferred concept for the development of the Skarfjell field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The Wintershall-operated field is located in PL 418 license. Under the proposed solution revealed by the operator on Thursday, the reservoir would be connected via a subsea template to the nearby Gjøa […]
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Italian oil company Eni has started drilling the Boné exploration well in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. According to Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the project the primary targets for the well are the Jurassic Stø- and Nordmela sandstones with a secondary target within the Triassic Fruholmen and Snadd sandstone formations. The well, formally named […]
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Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found three non-conformities regarding emergency preparedness during an audit of Aker BP’s Ivar Aasen field, offshore Norway. The audit took place from October 24 to 27, 2016, in the form of a meeting at the company’s premises onshore, followed up by verifications on the offshore […]
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On Saturday, December 24 the Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP started production from its operated Ivar Aasen field, off Norway. The company produced a video of the project start-up, which came four years after the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) was submitted. The field’s economic life is estimated to be 20 years. The Ivar Aasen […]
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Norwegian oil and gas player Aker BP on Saturday, December 24 produced first oil from the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. Aker BP, the operator of the field, said on Saturday that the start-up was according to the plan and the development was completed within budget. First oil from the Ivar […]
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Eni Norge a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Barents Sea. The well 7318/12-1 will be drilled in a prospect named Boné-Bigorna from the Saipem-owned drilling rig Scarabeo 8. The company recently got a consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the semi-sub rig to drill the […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
Engie E&P UK and partners Centrica and Bayerngas have seen first gas from the Cygnus development exported to the Bacton gas terminal in North Norfolk. Cygnus, located in licence areas P1055 & P1731, 150 kilometres off the coast of Lincolnshire, is expected to contribute 5% of UK gas production – supplying sufficient gas to heat the […]
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The Engie-operated Cygnus gas field offshore UK has started production. Engie said on Thursday that Cygnus, located in licence areas P1055 & P1731, is expected to contribute 5% of UK gas production – supplying sufficient gas to heat the equivalent of 1.5 million UK homes. Ruud Zoon, Managing Director of ENGIE E&P UK Limited […]
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Petrofac, an international oil & gas services provider, has been awarded a four and a half-year contract extension for the provision of integrated support services on the Cygnus gas field in the Southern North Sea. Petrofac said on Monday that the extension is until December 2021 and worth around $70 million. The extension includes the provision […]
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Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders
Norwegian oil company Det norske oljeselskap has completed the drilling of two appraisal wells in the Ivar Aasen field area, with mixed results. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the company drilled the wells in the 001 B to delineate the West Cable (16/1-7) discovery made in 2004. The size of the discovery, included in the […]
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap another drilling permit for an appraisal well on the Ivar Aasen field, offshore Norway. According to the directorate, the well 16/1-26 A will be drilled from Maersk Drilling’s jack-up rig Maersk Interceptor in production licence 001 B. Maersk Interceptor was delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore […]
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Danish energy giant Dong Energy, developing the Hejre oil field offshore Denmark, has terminated the contract it had for the engineering and procurement of the platform for the field. In a statement on Tuesday, the company said the termination was a result of Daewoo and Technip consortium’s failure to meet contractual obligations. According to Dong, which is […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance
A little over a year ago Wintershall took over the operatorship of the subsea oil and gas field Vega from Statoil. Vega is the BASF subsidiary’s first operated subsea tie-in field in Norway. The Vega field is a subsea facility located in the Norwegian section of the North Sea at 375 meters water depth. It […]
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After recent reports of planned shutdowns for the Jotun, Varg, Jette, and Oselvar fields, another oil company has decided to shut down an oil field located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Namely, Norwegian oil giant Statoil will reportedly stop production from the Volve field located in the North Sea offshore Norway. The Volve oil […]
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Det norske oljeselskap a drilling permit for well 16/1-26 S, offshore Norway. The well 16/1-26 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig in production licence 001 B, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The drilling programme for the 16/1-26 S well relates to […]
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Dong Energy has reportedly decided to shut down production from the Oselvar field offshore Norway 14 years earlier than planned due to reservoir issues. The Oselvar oil and gas field is located in the southern part of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and it was put in production in April 2012. The field is located […]
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Lundin Petroleum’s Norwegian subsidiary, Lundin Norway, has started drilling the exploration well 16/4-10 on the Fosen prospect, offshore Norway. The well is located approximately 27 km south of the Edvard Grieg field and 11 km south of the Luno II discovery on the Utsira High on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Well 16/4-10 will explore […]
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Lundin Petroleum has completed the drilling and evaluation of exploration well 6407/10-4 on the Lorry prospect, in the Norwegian Sea. The well was dry. The well is located in PL700B, on the northern part of the Frøya High in the southern Norwegian Sea. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic […]
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Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered 56 exploration licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) in its latest licencing round. The Awards in Pre-defined Areas 2015 (APA 2015) licensing round opened in April 2015 and a deadline for application was September 2, 2015. The offers are being issued following the authorities’ assessment of applications from 43 […]
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/4-10, in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The well 16/4-10 will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 16/4-10 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 544. The area in this licence […]
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Swedish operator Lundin Petroleum has started drilling an exploration well on the Lorry prospect, offshore Norway. The well 6407/10-4 will explore the Lorry prospect in PL700, located on the northern part of the Frøya High in the Norwegian Sea, some 17 kilometers northeast of VNG Norge operated Pil and Bue discoveries in the Halten Terrace. […]
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Norway’s shipowner Eidesvik Offshore has suspended operations for two of its supply vessels, presently on contract with Norsea Group AS. The vessels in question are platform supply vessels ‘Viking Athene’ and ‘Viking Lady’. In June 2012, Leiv Eiriksson Consortium, a group of companies sharing the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig, awarded Eidesvik two contracts for the two PSVs. […]