10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Equinor comes up empty in North Sea duo

    23 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has found no hydrocarbons in two wells, which were drilled using one of Odfjell Drilling’s rigs in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.

  • 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 […]

  • ‘Safe Bristolia’ running loose in North Sea

    4 January 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The article has been updated to include a statement by Prosafe One of Prosafe’s semi-submersible accommodation vessels is running loose in the UK North Sea and Prosafe is trying to regain control of it after a towline connecting it to a tugboat snapped on Sunday.  According to the Norwegian news website Aftenbladet, the incident occurred due […]

  • Statoil Receives Approval for New North Sea Well (Norway)

    1 November 2013

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 25/9-4, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Well 25/9-4 will be drilled from the Ocean Vanguard drilling rig at position 59°25’24.4” north and 2°47’15.0” east. The drilling programme for well 25/9-4 relates to drilling of a wildcat well […]

  • 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 […]

  • Probe underway after worker suffers ‘serious injury’ on jack-up rig

    14 November 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Norway’s safety regulator is investigating an incident involving “serious personal injury” on a jack-up rig, working in the North Sea.

  • Norway: Special Innovation Award Presented to Andreas K. L. Ugland

    3 September 2012

    Mr. Ugland is presented with the award for creating partnerships and new products for the wider energy sector for more than 4 decades – and always with a drive for improved safety for operations at sea. Andreas K.L. Ugland is one of the pioneers with background in shipping who early took important positions in the […]

  • ConocoPhillips gets nod for remote operation of North Sea platform

    6 January 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    ConocoPhillips has received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety watchdog for remote operation of a North Sea platform.

  • VIDEO: Gina Krog jacket touchdown

    9 July 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Late June 2015, the jacket for the new Statoil-operated Gina Krog platform was launched on the field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The video above shows the jacket being lowered into the sea. Including rigging and buoyancy tanks the jacket weighed more than 17 000 tons, more than twice the steel weight […]

  • DNV GL to Standardise Subsea Documentation

    21 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    DNV GL has launched a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to standardise sub-sea documentation. This long-awaited initiative has been welcomed by the industry, with broad participation from operators, EPC(I) contractors and suppliers representing all parts of the supply chain. A typical sub-sea project can involve more than 10,000 documents over a span of 30 years. To develop, […]

  • Gas leak at Gudrun platform

    18 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    There has been a gas leak at the Statoil-operated Gudrun platform in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. According to Offshore.no, a Norwegian website covering the country’s oil and gas sector, the leak occurred on the platform earlier this morning. No injuries have been reported to the crew. There were 26 people on board […]

  • NCL: Bio-methanol-powered containership inaugurated in Norway

    1 April 2025
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Norwegian transportation company North Sea Container Line AS) together with partners Elkem ASA, and MPC Container Ships ASA (MPCC), have begun operating NCL Vestland, a new methanol dual-fuel containership, in Haugesund, Norway.

  • Statoil Picks Sembcorp Marine for FPSO Construction

    13 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    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 company said that the shipbuilding contract is […]

  • TechnipFMC scores Breidablikk subsea EPCI

    19 October 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance

    TechnipFMC has secured an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) contract for pipelay and subsea installation at the Equinor’s Breidablikk field. The contract awarded by Equinor for the the Breidablikk pipelay also includes option for the subsea installation scope located in the area close to the Grane Field in North Sea, according to TechnipFMC. TechnipFMC’s […]

  • EMGS Strikes New Barents Data Deal

    13 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian geophysical services company, EMGS, has entered into a data licensing agreement with an undisclosed client for the provision of 3D CSEM data from the multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. The Oslo-listed company said that this new deal has generated net revenue of USD 1 million, which will be recognised in the fourth quarter […]

  • 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.

  • First Ulstein Wind Farm SOV Breezing Through Sea Trials (Gallery)

    10 June 2016

    Yno 309, Ulstein’s first wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) and the first of two ordered by Bernhard Schulte Offshore, left the yard for sea trials on Tuesday, 7 June, and the results so far are highly satisfactorily, the Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder said. “We are underway in testing for speed and manoeuvring, and will […]

  • Norway: Aker Solutions Gets Subsea Trees Order for Alvheim Field

    27 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Marathon Oil Norge for the delivery of subsea trees to the Alvheim field on the Norwegian continental shelf. Contract value is undisclosed. The contract includes the delivery of four subsea trees and associated equipment. The contract is part of the frame agreement, covering the North Sea and Europe, […]

  • PSW developing shore power system for Northern Lights

    26 October 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    PSW Power & Automation has won a contract with Aker Solutions to design and deliver the shore power system at the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the North Sea.

  • Total gets nod for North Sea Well

    28 May 2014

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 34/6-3S, in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Well 34/6-3S will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig, after concluding drilling of wildcat well 35/9-6 S for RWE Dea Norge AS in production licence 420. The drilling […]

  • Edison sells Norwegian subsidiary to Sval Energi

    31 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Italian energy player Edison has sold its wholly-owned Norwegian subsidiary Edison Norge, the company that controls the group’s hydrocarbon exploration and production activities in Norway, to Sval Energi.

  • Norway’s oil production: ‘Almost 50 years in and still not halfway done’

    15 June 2017

    Norway has been producing oil and gas for almost half a decade, since the first production at the Ekofisk field in 1971. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, when it comes to oil and gas production, the Scandinavian country is not halfway done yet. Since 1990, total resources, including the estimate for undiscovered resources in […]

  • CGG Delivers Northern Viking Graben Data

    21 November 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    CGG has delivered the final time-processed data from its Northern Viking Graben multi-client 3D BroadSeis-BroadSource survey. This new product offers exploration companies over 35,000km2 of subsurface images across the Norwegian Northern North Sea, the company said. The Northern Viking Graben survey was acquired from 2014-2016 after receiving strong industry support in this area of high exploration activity. […]

  • Norway: Spring Energy Enters Farm-in Deal with Noreco for Interest in PL 490

    1 June 2011
    Business & Finance

      Spring Energy announces a farm-in transaction of a 20% working interest in PL 490 from Norwegian Energy Company ASA.   The PL 490 license is located immediately to the West/North West of the producing Snøhvit Field in the Barents Sea, and a firm well on the combined Juksa / Snurrevad prospects is scheduled for 2012. […]

  • DeepOcean to Conduct IMR for BG Group

    16 June 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    DeepOcean has been awarded an Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair (“IMR”) contract by BG Group. The five year contract covers all ROV based IMR work for BG Group on UK and Norwegian subsea assets. DeepOcean will use vessels from its North Sea based fleet for work under this contract. “IMR is one of our main service […]