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  • Kvaerner completes Edvard Grieg jacket

    4 April 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian fabrication company Kvaerner on Wednesday celebrated the completion of the jacket, which is a part of Lundin Petroleum-operated Edvard Grieg project, at its yard in Verdal. Following the tradition the jacket got a symbolic name based on historical Norwegian culture. According to Kvaerner’s Facebook update, all employees were invited to the naming ceremony where the […]

  • TechnipFMC, Wilhelmsen, NorSea investing in deep-sea mining

    12 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    TechnipFMC, Wilhelmsen and NorSea are investing in Norwegian deep-sea mining company Loke Marine Minerals (Loke) to enable the energy transition.

  • Equinor Gets PSA Nod to Power Johan Sverdrup from Shore

    18 July 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has given Equinor a consent to use a facility to supply power from onshore to the Johan Sverdrup field. Electrical power will be obtained from the onshore grid and converted to DC at a transformer station at Haugsneset close to the Kårstø facility in Rogaland. From here, a submarine cable […]

  • Equinor cleared to put Floatel’s unit to work at North Sea field

    17 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    Norway’s PSA has given Equinor consent to use one of Floatel’s semi-subs as a mobile quarters facility at a North Sea field off Norway.

  • Report: Aker BP, Hitec in talks to buy Exxon’s Norwegian assets

    27 December 2016

    Three companies are reportedly looking to buy ExxonMobil’s Norwegian offshore assets estimated to be worth around $1 billion.  According to last week’s news report by Bloomberg, who quoted people familiar with the matter, Aker BP, HitecVision, and Neptune Oil & Gas are in talks with Exxon to buy stakes in the company’s oil assets offshore […]

  • Statoil finds non-commercial gas volume in Korpfjell well

    29 August 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has proven a small, non-commercial gas volume in the Korpfjell well in the Barents Sea southeast. The company received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill the 7435/12-1 well with the Songa Enabler drilling rig in late June and a drilling permit from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in late July. […]

  • Greens lose lawsuit in Norway over Arctic oil licenses

    5 January 2018

    In the case brought against the Norwegian Government by Greenpeace Norway for granting new oil licenses to drill in the Arctic Barents Sea, the Oslo District Court has ruled in favor of the government. 

  • Green light for Aker BP to kick off North Sea drilling ops with Saipem rig

    10 November 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Aker BP has secured two types of permits from Norwegian authorities for drilling operations in the North  Sea off Norway.

  • Statoil Announces Major Oil Discovery in Barents Sea (Norway)

    1 April 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Statoil, along with partners Eni Norway and Petoro, has made a significant oil discovery on the Skrugard prospect in the Barents Sea. The breakthrough discovery is one of the most important finds on the Norwegian continental shelf in the last decade. Statoil and its partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations on the […]

  • Repsol awards Gyda platform removal job to Allseas

    20 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Repsol Norge has awarded Allseas an EPRD contract for the removal, transfer, load-in to shore and disposal of its Gyda platform in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • MOL Norge drills duster in North Sea

    24 May 2019
    Exploration & Production

    MOL Norge has completed exploration well 3/7-11 S, targeting the Vinstra and Otta prospects in PL539 in the North Sea. Both targets were dry.

  • Lundin digs deep into new reservoir type in Barents Sea

    18 April 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Lundin Norway has started drilling operations for an extended well test on the Alta discovery in the southern Barents Sea – testing a completely new type of oil reservoir on the Norwegian shelf, consisting of karstified carbonates. A successful outcome will provide important information to progress field development planning and could significantly increase the resource […]

  • Remontowa of Poland Delivers LNG Ferry

    9 October 2012
    Vessels

    Remontowa Shipbuilding said it has finished construction of the first from the series of four gas powered car–passenger ferries built for one of the biggest Norwegian Owners. Construction of the ferry “Landegode” began in 2011. After successful completing of the sea trials, the vessel was delivered to the Owner. Ceremonial changing of the flag took […]

  • DONG Energy Awarded Two New Licences Off Norway

    23 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    New licenses in the Barents Sea and the North Sea are to contribute to the growth in DONG Energy. The Norwegian oil and energy department awarded exploration licenses to 48 oil companies in the yearly license round, APA. DONG Energy’s Norwegian oil and gas business concluded a successful application process, ending up with two new […]

  • Statoil picks Sembcorp Marine to build Johan Castberg hull

    10 November 2017

    The contract will be signed at the final investment decision scheduled before Christmas. It has a value of NOK 4 billion ($492.3M).

  • Gallery: Statoil in official launch of Valemon

    16 April 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has reported that petroleum and energy minister Tord Lien is opening the Valemon gas and condensate field in the North Sea today. The field was brought on stream on January 3, 2015. Expected recoverable reserves from the field are 192 million barrels of oil equivalent. “Valemon is one of several new projects on the Norwegian […]

  • Statoil Announces Major Oil Discovery in Barents Sea, Offshore Norway

    1 April 2011
    Business & Finance

      Statoil, along with partners Eni Norway and Petoro, has made a significant oil discovery on the Skrugard prospect in the Barents Sea. The breakthrough discovery is one of the most important finds on the Norwegian continental shelf in the last decade. Statoil and its partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations on […]

  • Norwegian Government Approves Martin Linge Development Plan

    3 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Norwegian Government approved the development plan for the Martin Linge gas field. Until now the licensees have referred to the field as Hild. Located in the northern part of the North Sea, the field is about 150 kilometres west of Kollsnes. Total investments in the development amount to about NOK 26 billion, with recoverable […]

  • Keel Laid for Norwegian Research Vessel (Spain)

    27 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Gondan Shipyard has celebrated the keel laying ceremony of the new Oceanographic Research Vessel for the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) of Bergen, Norway at its facilities in Figueras. The official keel laying ceremony, marks the start of the assembly of the hull in the slipway. Several representatives from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, […]

  • AET Gets Statoil Contract, Norway

    17 September 2012

    AET, a leading global owner and operator of a fleet of 82 petroleum tankers, has agreed to enter into a long-term contract with Norwegian energy giant Statoil ASA to operate two specialists DP2-type shuttle tankers. The vessels will be operated through a joint venture company, AET Sea Shuttle AS, formed between AET and leading offshore […]

  • Eni gets green light for Barents Sea wildcat

    22 December 2016
    Exploration & Production

    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 […]

  • Strike could shut down production on Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup

    8 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has warned that the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea would have to close production until further notice if the ongoing strike on the Norwegian Continental Shelf continues until 14 October.

  • Eni spuds Barents Sea exploration well

    12 January 2017

    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 […]

  • Update: Eemslift Hendrika taken under tow

    8 April 2021
    Safety, Vessels

    A tow line has been attached to the Dutch-flagged cargo ship Eemslift Hendrika, which has been drifting off Norway since Monday. The ship has been secured and is now being towed by two tug boats to harbour in Ålesund, the Norwegian Coastal Administration said in an update. The tow line was set up by a […]

  • Nominations in 23rd Licensing Round in Norway Fit Well with EMGS’s Barents Sea Program

    3 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    On 21 January the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy received block nominations for 160 blocks in the Norwegian Continental Shelf, whereof 140 blocks are in the Barents Sea. “Of the 25 blocks nominated by two or more companies in the vicinity of the Fingerdjupet subbasin and Hoop Fault Complex, EMGS already has 3D EM data […]