10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Norway: Draupne Becomes Ivar Aasen

    11 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The oil and gas discovery Draupne, located centrally in the North Sea, has today been renamed Ivar Aasen. The name was chosen following proposals from the operator and feedback from the advisory committee on names. Sunnmøre-native Ivar Aasen was a leading democratic and national strategist in Norway during the 1800s. He was a poet and […]

  • Statoil, Sembcorp Marine Ink Johan Castberg Deal

    10 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has signed a letter of intent with Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters in Singapore for the construction of the hull and integrated living quarters for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel that will be located on the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea. The contract will be signed at the final […]

  • Ocean Installer Accomplishes Balder Field Gig for ExxonMobil (Norway)

    18 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Ocean Installer has successfully completed survey and intervention work at the Balder field, as contracted by ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Norway AS (“ExxonMobil”). The work was performed in May 2012, according to schedule and in line with Ocean Installer’s quality and HSE standards and requirements. The conducted work encompassed inspection and maintenance of the subsea […]

  • EMGS eyes multi-client survey in Barents Sea

    25 March 2019

    EMGS has received a letter of intent for a fully pre-funded multi-client survey in the Norwegian Barents Sea.

  • Inpex Sets Up Norway Office

    11 June 2014

    Inpex said that it has established a wholly-owned Norwegian resident subsidiary company, Inpex Norge, and opened its first office in the Kingdom of Norway in Oslo. Through this most recently added office in Oslo, Inpex will promote oil and natural gas exploration and production activities in the Norwegian offshore area, in which the company recognizes high potential for oil and natural gas […]

  • EU Funds ECO2 Project for Assessing Environmental Risks of Sub-Seabed CO2 Storage (Norway)

    23 May 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The European Union (EU) funded project ECO2 to evaluate the potential impact of sub-seabed carbon dioxide (CO2) leakage from storage sites on marine ecosystems has now been launched. 27 project partners from nine nations will study existing sub-seabed storage sites in the Norwegian North Sea and the Barents Sea as well as natural seeps at […]

  • MAN Diesel power for cruise ships

    18 September 2007

    On 15 September 2007, the ‘Norwegian Gem’ was transported from the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg along the River Ems to the North Sea. The latest luxury liner in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet will be powered by five 12V48/60B engines from MAN Diesel, the Augsburg-based large-bore diesel engine specialist. The engines’ combined output is 72 […]

  • North Sea: Wintershall on Exploring Spree

    27 August 2010
    Business & Finance

    The largest German oil and gas producer, Wintershall, continues to make headway on the path to becoming one of the leading operators on the Norwegian continental shelf. The company has now discovered five new oil fields in the North Sea in just one year, it announced at the international trade fair “Offshore Northern Seas” (ONS) […]

  • VIDEO: Storm Urd hits Oseberg platform

    3 January 2017

    The first day after Christmas in Norway was not a merry one by any means of the imagination after the extreme weather system ‘Urd’ reached hurricane strength and hit the Norwegian coast. On Monday, December 26, 2016, the storm hit several locations in the country, leaving 70,000 Norwegians without power in its wake with the […]

  • Equinor hands out more work to Norwegian company

    16 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Equinor has exercised its first option to extend the drilling waste management contract with compatriot cleantech service provider Soiltech.

  • 2H Offshore Gets Johan Sverdrup Contract

    30 March 2015
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract by Statoil for tieback conductor, platform conductor and surface riser engineering analysis on the Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. 2H had already conducted engineering studies for Statoil to support wellhead specification on the Johan Sverdrup development. The field extends […]

  • FairfieldNodal to run two North Sea seismic surveys

    10 March 2017
    Equipment

    U.S.-based geophysical company FairfieldNodal will conduct back-to-back surveys in the UK and the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The company said on Thursday that the two campaigns would begin in early April 2017. Due to the specific conditions of the North Sea, FairfieldNodal will be employing its Z700 seismic data acquisition system. According to […]

  • Equinor granted drilling permit for North Sea well

    11 May 2020
    Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has been given a drilling permit to drill the 30/2-5 S well in the North Sea, offshore Norway.

  • Greenpeace activists released following arrest over protest in Norway

    22 August 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Greenpeace has informed that its 35 activists and its Arctic Sunrise ship have been released following last week’s arrest in Norway. The Norwegian Coast Guard last Thursday boarded the Arctic Sunrise and arrested the ship and the crew at Statoil’s Korpfjell drill site in the Barents Sea, after Greenpeace’s protest against Statoil’s drilling in the […]

  • Liquidators Recover Seismic Data Surveys Money

    28 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    More than $8m (US dollars) has been recovered to date by liquidators of a geophysical contractor which carried out seismic data surveys in the search for hidden reserves of gas and oil under the world’s seas. The recovery services arm of Smith & Williamson, the accountancy and investment management group, is winding up the financial […]

  • VIDEO: Norway’s largest offshore jacket

    27 July 2017

    Norwegian oil major Statoil has shared a video detailing the specs of the first steel jacket for the Johan Sverdrup field, which will be the largest on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Offshore Energy Today reported earlier this week on the sailaway of the jacket from the shipyard in Verdal. The final destination of the jacket […]

  • Aker BP installs Hod topsides just 14 months after first steel

    10 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil company Aker BP has installed the Hod platform topsides in the North Sea, offshore Norway, just one year and two months after the first steel cut.

  • Another North Sea field to be abandoned soon

    12 February 2016

    Det norske, a Norwegian oil exploration and development company, has decided to decommission the Jette field, offshore Norway, after only three years of production.  The Jette field is located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The production from the field started on May 19, 2013, and it was the first oil produced by Det norske […]

  • SBM Offshore to Decommission YME Platform (Norway)

    20 December 2012

    SBM Offshore, a Dutch based provider of systems and services to the global offshore oil and gas industry, has today announced that it will most likely be decommissioning the troublesome YME platform that has been sitting unmanned in the Norwegian part of the North Sea since mid-July, 2012. The decision on the project is still […]

  • MOL Norge Finds Oil and Gas Off Stavanger

    18 March 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    MOL Group’s wholly owned subsidiary MOL Norge and its joint venture partners have discovered oil and gas in an offshore field located about 200km west of Stavanger in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The exploration well in the 820S licence area was drilled to a maximum depth of 2,652 meters below sea level […]

  • Solstad Farstad sells anchor handling trio to Brazilian Navy

    7 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian offshore shipping company Solstad Farstad has sold three of its anchor handlers to the Brazilian Navy in a deal worth approximately $24 million.  Norway’s newly-formed OSV provider has participated in a public auction in Brazil for the sale of three anchor handling tug and supply (AHTS) vessels to the Brazilian Navy, whereby the Brazilian […]

  • Most popular news of the week, February 3 – 9, 2014

    9 February 2014

    Read the most popular news of the week. Contract awards, field development plans, oil discoveries, subsea awards, offshore acquisitions

  • Norway wants to see oil & gas and renewables ‘thriving’ side-by-side

    12 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has underlined the importance of the coexistence of multiple energy industries on the NCS.

  • Repsol Spuds Brattholmen Well (Norway)

    17 September 2013

    Spanish oil company Repsol has kicked off drilling operation at The Brattholmen well (4/4-1) in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The well is being drilled with the jack-up rig Mærsk Giant. The exploration well 4/4-1 for the Brattholmen prospect in PL 541 is located in the southern part of the North Sea, close to […]

  • Aker BP’s North Sea well comes up dry

    2 March 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Aker BP has completed the drilling of an exploration well near the Edvard Grieg field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea but failed to find hydrocarbons.