10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'
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  • Equinor bites the dust in Norwegian Sea

    28 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has completed drilling operations on an appraisal well southwest of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea and the well is dry.

  • Capricorn drills duster in Norwegian Sea

    5 August 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Capricorn Norge has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6608/11-9 in the Norwegian Sea and the well is dry. 

  • Statoil Finds Gas in Norwegian Sea

    19 August 2013

    Operator Statoil has together with PL479 partners made a gas/condensate discovery in the Smørbukk North prospect at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Exploration well 6506/9-3, drilled by the drilling rig Transocean Leader, has proven a 40-metre gas/condensate column in a down-to situation in the Garn formation of mid-Jurassic age. In addition a thin gas/condensate column […]

  • Dry Norwegian Sea well for Lundin

    30 December 2014

    Swedish independent oil company Lundin Petroleum AB has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6405/12-1 on PL584. The well is dry. The well investigated the hydrocarbon potential of the Lindarormen prospect which is located 150 km northwest of Kristiansund on the Norwegian coast and approximately 80 km northeast of the Ormen Lange field. The main […]

  • Russian Freighter Lists in Norwegian Sea

    20 March 2017

    Russian-flagged cargo ship Mekhanik Fomin developed a heavy portside list while underway in the Norwegian Sea west off Narvik after a reported cargo shift, Norwegian Coast Guard confirmed. The ship, loaded with timber, was en route to Inverness, the UK when it got in trouble following a cargo shift  on March 18th. Namely, some of the cargo […]

  • Statoil drills duster in Norwegian Sea

    20 May 2015

    Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the Statoil-operated Bister exploration well in the Norwegian Sea has said that drilling has reached target depth, and the well found no hydrocarbons. The Bister exploration well 6407/8-7 spudded on 27 April 2015 and reached total vertical depth of 2,990 metres below sea level in the Åre Jurassic formation. This was followed […]

  • Equinor set to drill Norwegian Sea wildcat

    31 May 2021
    Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has been given a drilling permit to drill a new wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea, offshore Norway.

  • Wintershall finds oil in Norwegian Sea

    28 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 589, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6406/2-8, in the Norwegian Sea. The well proved oil. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres south of the Kristin field in the Norwegian Sea and 190 kilometres northwest of Kristiansund. The objective of the well was to prove […]

  • Statoil: Rig secured for Norwegian Sea

    9 February 2006

    A letter of intent worth about NOK 2.35 billion (USD 350 million) for use of the Deepsea Bergen drilling rig in the Halten-Nordland area of the Norwegian Sea has been signed with Odfjell Drilling by Statoil.

  • Statoil strengthens position in Norwegian Sea

    7 March 2006

    Statoil is buying BP’s 25 per cent interest in licence 218 in blocks 6706/10 and 6706/12 in the Norwegian Sea. This acquisition includes the Luva gas find. BP recommends Statoil as new operator of the licence.

  • New Norwegian Sea gas find

    28 August 2007

    Statoil has discovered gas in the Midnattsol prospect in the Norwegian Sea. The find was made in exploration well 6405/10-1 in production licence 281 where the company is operator. ‘It’s positive that a new gas find has been made in a deepwater area of the Norwegian Sea,’ says Frode Fasteland, acting head of exploration on […]

  • Shell spuds Norwegian Sea well

    26 August 2015

    Shell has spudded the Portrush exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the PL793 licence said on Wednesday. The Portrush prospect is situated around 10 kilometres south-east of the producing Statoil-operated Njord field (Faroe 7.5%) and 20 kilometres west of the Shell-operated Draugen field.  The exploration well will target prospective resources […]

  • Repsol’s Norwegian Sea well disappoints

    13 October 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Repsol Norge AS is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6306/5-2. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 65 kilometres southwest of the Njord field and 35 kilometres southeast of the 6406/12-3 S and A discoveries (Pil and Bue) in the Norwegian Sea. This is the first exploration well […]

  • Rocksource Farms Into Norwegian Sea Licence

    12 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Rocksource ASA announces that the Company has entered into a farm-in agreement for a 15 per cent stake in a Production License in the Norwegian Sea. The license partnership is expected to take a drill or drop decision later this fall. If a positive drill decision is reached, an exploration well could be drilled in […]

  • Another Contract for EMGS in Norwegian Sea

    19 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a contract from an oil and gas company worth USD 1.0 million for acquisition of 3D EM data in the Norwegian Sea. The Company will be using the vessel Atlantic Guardian. Acquisition is scheduled to be completed early in October, after which the vessel is scheduled to go directly […]

  • Green light for Vår Energi to use FPSO destined for North Sea oil project

    24 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Norwegian offshore safety regulator has given Vår Energi consent to take advantage of living quarters, helicopter decks, and cranes on a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel revamped for deployment at a field in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. 

  • Shell drills duster in Norwegian Sea

    8 August 2018
    Exploration & Production

    This is the second dry well in a row drilled by Shell using the Scarabeo 8 rig

  • Statoil hits gas in Norwegian Sea

    10 March 2017

    Norwegian energy giant and LNG operator Statoil made a minor gas find in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea and about 200 kilometers west of Sandnessjøen.

  • VNG drills duster in Norwegian Sea

    3 November 2015
    Project & Tenders

    VNG Norge’s Blink exploration well in the Norwegian Sea has failed to unearth oil and gas. The objective of well 6406/12-5 S was to test the hydrocarbon potential of the Upper Jurassic reservoirs analogous to the Pil, Bue, Boomerang and Draugen field reservoirs. According to Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the project, the well encountered […]

  • VNG set to drill Norwegian Sea wildcat

    17 August 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued a drilling permit to VNG Norge AS for a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea. VNG will use the Transocean Arctic semi-submersible drilling rig for the 6406/12-4 A exploration well in the Production licence 586. The well will be drilled after drilling of the wildcat well 6406/12-4 S […]

  • Dry Well for Centrica in Norwegian Sea

    27 August 2012

    Centrica Resources (Norge) AS, operator of production licence 477, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6506/11-9 S. The well was drilled about five kilometres east of the Morvin field and about five kilometres west of Åsgard (Smørbukk field) in the Norwegian Sea. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum […]

  • Equinor set to drill Norwegian Sea well

    19 June 2019
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for well 6507/2-5 S, which is located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Subsea7 and Aker Solutions tasked with work for Northern Lights Phase 2

    1 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Storage, Transition, Vision

    Norway’s state-owned Equinor, acting as the technical service provider (TSP) for the project, has awarded Subsea7 and Aker Solutions with contracts for the second phase of the Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage development in Norway, after the final investment decision (FID) was announced last week. Subsea7’s contract is described as sizeable and will see […]

  • Statoil eyes wildcat in Norwegian Sea

    22 May 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 6706/11-2, in the Norwegian Sea. Well 6706/11-2 will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig after completing the drilling of wildcat wells 6407/8-7 and 6407/8-7 A for Statoil in production licence 348 C. The drilling program for well […]

  • Aker BP comes up empty-handed at another prospect as drilling ops wind down

    21 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Aker BP has found no hydrocarbons in the Norwegian Sea, following drilling activities conducted by one of Saipem’s semi-submersible rigs off the coast of Norway.