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  • 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).

  • Aker BP becoming operator of all NOAKA discoveries to ensure efficient execution

    5 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor and Aker BP have inked a deal for the transfer of operatorship, allowing the latter to take the operator helm in the NOAKA area.

  • Neptune to double gas output from North Sea field to meet Europe’s demand

    8 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Neptune Energy will double gas output from the Duva field in the North Sea to support increased supplies to the UK and Europe.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Norway: Alfa Laval to Equip Oil Platform with Fresh Water Generators

    17 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Alfa Laval, a company specializing in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, has won an order to supply fresh water generators to an oil platform in the North Sea. The order is worth approximately SEK 50 million (USD 7.3 million). Delivery is scheduled for 2012. The Alfa Laval fresh water generators will convert seawater […]

  • Equinor set to drill Barents Sea well

    19 December 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for well 7132/2-2 located in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. 

  • Lundin starts drilling two appraisal and one exploration well

    24 June 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Lundin Norway AS has started drilling its second Alta appraisal well in the Barents Sea South and drilling of an appraisal well on the Edvard Grieg field in the Norwegian North Sea. Drilling has also started on the partner-operated Zeppelin exploration well in the southern North Sea. The second Alta appraisal well 7220/11-3 in PL609 […]

  • Seismic Acquisition in Eastern Part of Barents Sea Will Begin in July (Norway)

    10 June 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

      It has now been determined that there will be seismic acquisition in the eastern part of the Barents Sea from 7 July. The necessary formalities surrounding the Treaty on Maritime Delimitation and Cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean between Norway and Russia are now in place. The activity can start 30 […]

  • Equinor gets go-ahead to drill North Sea well duo

    11 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Norwegian offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), has given Equinor consent to drill two exploration wells offshore Norway, using the West Hercules rig. The wells named 30/11-U-1 and 30/11-U-2 are located in Production licence 035 and 272 in the North Sea. The licences are operated by Equinor with Aker BP as a […]

  • Norway: NTVA Special Award Presented to Arne Smedal and Kare Syvertsen

    19 September 2010

    On August 16, 2010, Arne Smedal and Kåre Syvertsen was awarded the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences’ (NTVA) Special Award for their contribution to the development and commercialization of several breakthrough marine constructions, including loading systems that can handle high sea states and the Sevan floating cylindrical platform which combines high load carrying capacity of […]

  • Equinor’s ‘largest international asset’ starts producing oil off Brazil

    16 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor and its partners have achieved start-up of production from a large field in Brazil’s Santos Basin.

  • Maersk Oil: An Unprecedented Cross-border Deal Extends Field Life (Denmark)

    19 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Oil is entering its first cross-border tie-in, which will enable gas and condensate from a field in Norwegian waters to be taken to Maersk Oil’s Harald platform, in Danish waters, for processing before exporting onwards. The agreement is an example of how Maersk Oil is rationalising its operations in the Danish North Sea as […]

  • Eni stops Goliat output again

    29 December 2016

    Eni Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni, has halted output from its Goliat field in the Barents Sea, off Norway.  According to a Thursday report by the Norwegian news website Teknisk Ukeblad (TU), the output was halted on the night of December 26 after a routine inspection discovered damage on an […]

  • New gas discovery in North Sea seen as ‘exciting’ play opener

    19 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas company DNO Norge has made a new gas condensate discovery in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • With probe into gas leaks on North Sea platform done, Equinor gets regulatory order

    23 February 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Norwegian offshore safety regulator has finished investigating gas leaks on one of the Equinor-operated platforms located in the North Sea.

  • OSV Stril Mar set for another Barents Sea gig with Eni

    19 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Eni’s Norwegian subsidiary, Eni Norge, has activated another call-off contract for one of Simon Møkster Shipping’s offshore service supply vessels. Simon Møkster said on Monday that this contract for the Stril Mar PSV was the second call-off deal for the vessel. The company added that the vessel would arrive in Hammerfest on June 20 to serve Eni Norge’s […]

  • Lundin to Drill New North Sea Well Using Maersk Guardian (Norway)

    9 January 2013

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 8/5-1. Well 8/5-1 will be drilled from the Mærsk Guardian drilling facility in the Norwegian part of the North Sea The drilling programme for well 8/5-1 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 453 S. Lundin Norway […]