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  • New design of semi-sub floating production unit expands Norwegian firm’s offshore energy offering

    12 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Norway’s specialized marine engineering and design house Sevan Deepwater Technology (Sevan DWT), formerly Sevan SSP, has unveiled a new concept for a semi-submersible floating production unit (FPU) designed for deployment across the offshore energy realm, including the oil and gas arena.

  • NPD Presents Resource Estimates in Southeastern Barents Sea and Jan Mayan

    20 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    In 2011 and 2012, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate acquired seismic data off Jan Mayen and in the southeastern Barents Sea. In the southeastern Barents Sea, Dolphin Geophysical acquired 6766 line-kilometres during the periods of 26 April – 15 June and 1 – 6 July 2012, using the survey vessel Artemis Atlantic. PGS acquired 2D seismic […]

  • WATCH: Nova Field Templates Project Wraps Up

    20 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

     Wintershall Dea has installed two subsea templates on the ocean floor in Norway, marking a major milestone for the operated Nova project. The installation unlocks the next phase of the field development, with 65 kilometers of pipelines now ready to be laid in preparation for tie-back to the nearby Gjøa platform in the North […]

  • Four out of six companies awarded CO2 storage licenses offshore Norway

    31 March 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has awarded two new exploration licenses for CO2 storage on the Norwegian continental shelf in the North Sea to four companies. The two exploration licenses are located in the southern part of the North Sea. The eastern license is offered to Aker BP and OMV Norge, while the […]

  • Repsol awards five-year integrity management contract to Norwegian firm

    11 September 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Vision

    Spain’s energy giant Repsol has selected Norway’s IKM Operations, part of the IKM Group, as the provider of integrity management for its Norwegian fields. The contract covers engineering tasks and inspections at Repsol Norge’s topside facilities and subsea installations/pipelines in the Yme, Rev, and Blane fields offshore Norway. Contract duration is set for five years, […]

  • World’s first third-party CO2 storage facility begins operating as first injection takes place

    25 August 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Storage, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    Joint venture partners Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies have injected and stored the first CO2 volumes at the Northern Lights CO2 project in the Norwegian North Sea, marking the start of operations of what is said to be the world’s first third-party CO2 transport and storage facility. The first CO2 volumes were transported by vessel from […]

  • Norwegian Wraps Up Prestige Takeover

    20 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Cruise operator Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. has completed its previously-announced acquisition of Prestige Cruises International, Inc, the company said yesterday. The acquisition, signed in September, was carried out for a total transaction consideration of USD 3.025 billion, including the assumption of debt. “With this acquisition, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. operates a portfolio of […]

  • Top News of the Week 23rd – 27th of June

    29 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    VIDEO: Van Oord’s New Offshore Installation Vessel in Action Ever wondered how giant structures such as wind parks are erected offshore? Take a look at the following animation showing how offshore wind turbines are transported and installed at sea by a specialized vessel. Mexican Guest Falls Overboard MSC Divina MSC Cruises informed that a Mexican […]

  • Norway’s northernmost oil field formally inaugurated

    8 August 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland has officially opened a field offshore Norway operated by the country’s state-owned energy giant Equinor.

  • Norwegian Shipowners Less Optimistic

    10 April 2015

    Norwegian shipowners have reported a downward shift in shipowner expectations for growth in turnover in 2015. As shown in 2015 Maritime Outlook report by the Norwegian Shipowners Association (NSA), only a 2.3 pct profit increase is expected by Norwegian shipowners in 2015 from NOK 262 billion to NOK 268 billion. This is markedly less optimistic than expectations […]

  • With giant newbuild FPSO anchored at Norwegian field, hook-up and first oil next on the agenda

    17 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has anchored its new floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel to the seabed with mooring lines and will proceed to complete the rest of the items on the production start-up list to bring its oil project in the Barents Sea online, enabling the FPSO unit to embark on a three-decade assignment off the coast of Norway. 

  • Safety regulator launches probe into gas leak on North Sea platform

    26 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Norwegian safety regulator has opened an investigation into a gas leak incident on one of Equinor’s platforms in the North Sea off Norway.

  • TGS Starts Two New Surveys in Barents Sea

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    TGS begins new 2D and 3D multi-client projects in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Both surveys will provide customers with high quality data prior to the closing of the 23rd Norwegian Licensing round. The HFCE14 is a 3,100 km2 3D multi-client survey, extending TGS’ existing multi-year 3D Hoop coverage to more than 20,000 km2. The survey will be acquired […]

  • Statoil picks up drilling permit for Koigen wildcat

    4 August 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore watchdog the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.  The well 7317/9-1 is located in a prospect named Koigen Central. It will be drilled from the Songa Enabler Cat D semi-submersible drilling rig, after completing the drilling of wildcat well 7435/12-1, […]

  • Tullow comes up dry in Rome prospect

    7 July 2016
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Oil & gas, exploration and production company Tullow Oil has completed drilling of the exploration well 16/5-6 on the Rome prospect in the Central North Sea, offshore Norway.  Tullow informed on Thursday that the well, located in the production licence 776, did not encounter any hydrocarbons and will now be plugged and abandoned. Tullow’s Norwegian […]

  • Wildcat well proves North Sea reservoir suitable for carbon storage

    3 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Storage, Transition, Vision

    Harbour Energy Norge and its partners have confirmed a reservoir in the Norwegian part of the North Sea suitable for CO2 injection and storage following the drilling of a wildcat well. As part of the Havstjerne storage project, the 9/6-1 well was drilled in a water depth of 90 meters, around 30 kilometers southeast of the Yme […]

  • Russia, Norway ink Barents Sea seismic surveying pact

    25 October 2018

    Russia and Norway have signed an agreement on mutual rights to seismic acquisition in the Barents Sea.

  • Norwegian Shipowners’ Association Names New President

    4 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Lars Peder Solstad was elected new president of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association (NSA) on Monday, March 31st. The new president has taken over the position from Trond Kleivdalo. “Norway has one of the world’s largest and most advanced fleets. The maritime industry creates jobs across the country and contributes 160 billions of annual values. Norwegian […]

  • Statoil awards Castberg sea surveillance system contract to Vissim

    9 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Infrastructure

    Statoil has awarded Vissim a contract for a sea surveillance system to be installed on the Johan Castberg FPSO to be located in the Barents Sea off Norway.

  • NPD Resumes Barents Sea Seismic Survey

    16 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    The vessel Artemis Atlantic has resumed acquisition of 2D seismic data as planned in the north-eastern part of the Barents Sea. A total of approx. 14 300 kilometres (about 40 lines) of seismic will be acquired in this area, and according to the plan, the work will continue until mid-October. The fist part of the […]

  • Kvaerner cuts first steel for Equinor’s Johan Castberg FPSO

    21 November 2018
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian minister of petroleum and energy, Kjell-Børge Freiberg, will on Wednesday start cutting the first sheet for the topside of the Equinor-operated Johan Castberg vessel at Kværner’s yard at Stord in Norway. 

  • Magseis Bags LoA for Seabed Seismic Survey

    13 November 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Magseis, a Norwegian geophysical company, has received a Letter of Award to conduct seabed seismic acquisition outside the North Sea. The survey will be undertaken using the company’s proprietary MASS system and the DP 2 class vessel ‘Artemis Athene’. The crew will mobilise directly from the recently completed Barents Sea multi-client survey. According to the company, the […]

  • Gas Alarm Shuts Snorre A Production (Norway)

    4 October 2012

    Production from Statoil-operated Snorre A tension leg platform was shut last night after a gas alarm on board the facility went off, Reuters reports. A Norwegian oil giant’s spokesperson informed Reuters that the platform, located in the Norwegian part of the North Sea was undergoing a partial restart this morning. Snorre A is an integrated production, […]

  • Norwegian Decides Winning Names for Its Two New Freestyle Cruising Ships

    14 September 2011

    Norwegian Cruise Line has selected the winning names for its two new Freestyle Cruising® ships: Norwegian Breakaway, launching in April 2013, and Norwegian Getaway, launching in April 2014. The names were selected as the culmination of its “Norwegian’s Cruising for Names” contest held in conjunction with national newspaper USA Today. Norwegian felt these names best […]

  • Thumbs-up for Equinor and Vår Energi to fortify emergency preparedness in Barents Sea

    10 May 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Equinor and Vår Energi have received consent from the country’s offshore safety regulator for contingency planning in the Barents Sea.