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  • Norway approves carbon transport and storage project

    15 December 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation, Storage, Technology, Transition

    Following a historic vote in parliament, the Norwegian Government on Tuesday announced its funding decision for the Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage project in Norway. The project will enable the shipping, reception, and sequestration of CO2 in geological strata in the Northern North Sea, approximately 2,600 meters below the seabed. The funding decision demonstrates […]

  • Equinor improves Vigdis recovery by 16 million barrels

    6 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Technology

    A pump on the seabed gives the Equinor-operated Vigdis field in the North Sea a boost that increases production by around 16 million barrels.

  • Odfjell Drilling-managed rig starts drilling ops for Neptune in North Sea

    3 October 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Neptune Energy has kicked off drilling activities at an appraisal well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, using a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling.

  • Equinor gets the all-clear to spud North Sea well

    28 October 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Equinor has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator for exploration drilling in the North Sea off Norway.

  • Aker BP gains drilling permit for Hyrokkin

    28 July 2017
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for well 25/4-11 in the North Sea. The well 25/4-11, located in a prospect named Hyrokkin, will be drilled by the Maersk Interceptor drilling rig north of Alvheim in the North Sea. The drilling program for well 25/4-11 relates to the drilling of […]

  • NPD OKs Total’s Barents Sea Drilling Plans. Leiv Eiriksson Still Awaiting AoC

    4 April 2013

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7225/3-2, located in the Norwegian Sector of the Barents Sea. Total will use the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig, built in 2001, for operation at the well which is a part of production licence 535. This will be the second exploration well […]

  • Aker BP sets one billion barrel target for Alvheim

    8 June 2018
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Aker BP has launched a new vision which would see the company produce one billion barrels of oil from the Alvheim area.

  • WATCH: Aker BP slotting puzzle pieces in place to ensure North Sea oil project’s 40-year lifespan

    10 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Aker BP is piecing together the remaining sections of the utility model puzzle designed for a production and wellhead platform (PWP) that will help ensure hydrocarbon production at its field in the southern part of the Norwegian sector in the North Sea for 40 more years.

  • COSL rig cleared to spud North Sea wildcat pair next month

    9 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has secured a drilling permit for two exploration wells in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, which will be drilled with a semi-submersible rig owned by COSL Drilling Europe, an offshore drilling player.

  • Valiant Announces Spud of Zapffe Prospect in Norwegian Barents

    17 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    Valiant Petroleum plc  announces that drilling operations have commenced on the Zapffe exploration prospect (Valiant, 10%), located in PL518 in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The well is drilled by the Aker Barents semi-submersible rig and is targeting a Lower Cretaceous/Upper Jurassic pinch-out play located adjacent to the large Goliat discovery made in 2000. Gross prospective […]

  • TGS to deliver NOAKA OBN seismic survey

    2 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    TGS is set to carry out an ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in the NOAKA area on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • Norway: First Oil from Draupne May be Produced in 2015

    16 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    The partnerships in Draupne-, Hanz- and West Cable licenses have submitted an application for an environmental impact assessment for these discoveries. Draupne, with the smaller discoveries at Hanz and West Cable, is one of the major discoveries on the Norwegian shelf in recent years. The first oil from Draupne can be produced in 2015. The […]

  • Aker BP hits oil and gas at Froskelar Main well offshore Norway

    4 February 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil company Aker BP has hit oil and gas at it its Froskelar Main exploration well in the North Sea offshore Norway.

  • World’s 1st Ship Tunnel Step Closer to Construction

    6 April 2017

    Norway’s Stad Ship Tunnel project, also known as the world’s first full-scale ship tunnel, is moving toward construction process as the plan was made formal. Namely, the Norwegian government submitted a white paper on transportation, the National Transport Plan 2018-2029, on 5 April 2017, which proposes planing of the ship tunnel. About EUR 163 million (USD 173 […]

  • Gassco makes case for increasing gas transport from Barents Sea

    13 January 2020

    Gassco has drawn up a report regarding the transport of gas from the southern Barents Sea, showing that it could be profitable to increase the transport capacity for gas.

  • Sixty tonnes of wood falls into North Sea

    31 August 2010

    Coastguards have warned vessels sailing off the Norfolk and Suffolk coast to watch out for 60 tonnes of cargo which fell off a ship. The cargo of wooden planks fell overboard from a Norwegian ship 55 miles east of Lowestoft in heavy seas.

  • Aker BP brings North Sea field on stream

    14 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Aker BP has kicked off production from a field in the North Sea off Norway, after fast-tracking the development to achieve the first oil.

  • Equinor gets 10-year life extension for Troll B platform

    20 April 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Norwegian authorities have granted consent to operator Equinor for a 10-year lifetime extension for the Troll B platform located in the North Sea.

  • All systems go for Equinor’s drilling ops with COSL rig next month

    16 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has secured a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, which will be drilled next month with COSL Drilling Europe’s semi-submersible rig.

  • Wintershall Receives Permission to Drill New Well in PL 418

    1 February 2013

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norway AS a drilling permit for well 35/9-8 in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Well 35/9-8 will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility at position 67°17’6.71’’N and 3°40’33.63’’E following completion of drilling of wildcat well 6407/1-6 S for Wintershall in production licence 475. […]

  • Statoil of Norway Signs Cooperation Deal with Rosneft

    7 May 2012

    Statoil and Rosneft signed a cooperation agreement to jointly explore offshore frontier areas of Russia and Norway and to conduct joint technical studies on two onshore Russian assets. Rosneft president Eduard Khudainatov and Statoil president and CEO Helge Lund signed the agreement, in the presence of the President-elect of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and […]

  • Edda Fonn in North Sea Campaign

    23 September 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian contractor, Reach Subsea has, through its joint venture (JV) cooperation with Sweden’s MMT, signed contracts for approximately 60 days for Edda Fonn in the North Sea. At the end of June this year, the two companies established a joint venture agreement primarily for survey services. Included in the joint venture agreement is the shared commitment […]

  • Two Wrongful Death Lawsuits Filed against NCL

    28 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Two wrongful death lawsuits filed against Norwegian Cruise Line in relation to the 2016 lifeboat collapse.

  • Fincantieri to Build Oceanographic Ship for Norway

    29 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    In the presence of the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs Elisabeth Aspaker, Fincantieri, one of the world leading shipbuilding companies, and the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), the Norwegian governmental body for oceanographic research and fishing, signed a contract today in Oslo for the construction of an oceanographic icebreaker for operating in polar […]

  • Sabvabaa Conducts Pioneering Expedition in Arctic Ocean

    22 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    This summer, a hovercraft will embark upon a research voyage from Svalbard to the North Pole. This will be the first and the northernmost polar expedition undertaken with such a vessel. ”Never before has there been a Norwegian scientific expedition so far north. Not even Nansen or Amundsen made it this far,” says senior geologist […]