10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Equinor all set for North Sea oil & gas exploration ops with Odfjell Drilling rig

    24 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received the go-ahead from the country’s authorities to use one of Odfjell Drilling’s semi-submersible rigs for drilling operations at a block in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.

  • Lundin kicks off extended well testing ops on Alta discovery

    9 April 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Lundin Norway has started drilling well 7220/11-5 on the Alta discovery in PL609 in the southern Barents Sea. Following drilling, the well will be used for extended well testing.

  • Rosneft Secures Interest in License PL713 in Barents Sea

    14 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Following the results of the 22nd Licensing Round announced by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, RN Nordic Oil AS, a 100% indirect subsidiary of Rosneft, has been granted the award of a 20% participating interest in the license PL713 covering the area of 1,213 sq. km. License PL713 consists of four promising blocks: […]

  • Equinor picks up two safety consents for North Sea operations

    22 July 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received two consents from the PSA – one for the use of a COSL rig for exploration drilling and one for the use of Utgard field facilities.

  • Connector to install Goliat power cable

    3 February 2011

    Aker Solutions has secured more of the workscope for the offshore construction phase for the Barents Sea Goliat project. Under a new deal the Norwegian contract group has been selected to install a subsea power cable from the field location back to shore.

  • Winner targets new sidetrack

    9 September 2008

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has given StatoilHydro the go-ahead to drill well 15/5-7 A with the Transocean Winnersemisub. The well will be spudded when the rig has completed work on the 15/5-7 appraisal well in production licence 048 and it will be a sidetrack to the exisint well. StatoilHydro will act as operator with a […]

  • Norwegian company scores contract with Repsol for oil spill monitoring

    26 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Repsol Norge has chosen the Norway-based company Vissim to implement an upgraded oil spill detection system at its Yme field on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Vissim will install a new radar-based oil spill detection system on the Inspirer jack-up rig at the Yme oil field, situated in the Central North Sea, about 160 kilometers […]

  • Norwegian GETAWAY About to Get Floated Out

    29 October 2013

    On 2 November 2013 the 146,600-gt cruise ship Norwegian GETAWAY, whose construction has taken merely 12 months, will float out of MEYER WERFT’s covered building dock II. Over the last few weeks the shipyard has been busy conducting extensive tests and machinery trials. The float-out of the ship, which is built for the US cruise […]

  • Cairn sells half of its interest in Nova project

    6 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Cairn Energy has entered into a farm-out agreement for the sale of a 10% interest in the Nova development offshore Norway.

  • Lundin’s exploration manager retires

    24 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Petroleum has announced that Hans Christen Rønnevik, Exploration Manager at Lundin Norway AS, is retiring but will remain integral to the Norwegian exploration activity. The company explained that Hans Christen Rønnevik, Exploration Manager at Lundin Norway, has reached the formal retirement age of 70 in Norway and has retired from his executive duties. He […]

  • Aker BP cleared to use ‘Maersk Invincible’ on Valhall during 2018 and 2019

    17 August 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Aker BP has received consent from the PSA to use the Maersk Invincible rig on the Valhall Flank North and South fields.

  • C-Kore’s Subsea Monitoring Tools for Statoil’s North Sea Field

    16 June 2016
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    C-Kore Systems has been awarded a contract to supply Statoil with subsea electrical monitoring tools. Statoil will be using the tools to monitor the insulation resistance and continuity of a new control umbilical during its installation at a field outside Bergen in the northern part of the North Sea, the company explained. Tim Overfield, managing […]

  • Ocean Star PSV begins Statoil adventure

    9 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Offshore’s newly built platform supply vessel, the Ocean Star, has started its charter with the Norwegian oil company Statoil.

  • PHOTO: World’s largest jack-up loaded. Sets sail to Norway

    5 March 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The photo above shows one of the world’s largest jack-up drilling rigs being loaded on a heavy lift vessel in Singapore. The recently delivered ‘Maersk Integrator’ rig is owned by the Danish offshore drilling company Maersk Drilling. The rig, built by Keppel shipyard in Singapore, is now sailing to Norway, loaded aboard the Hawk heavy lifter. […]

  • Statoil finds oil and gas near Gimle field

    24 March 2017

    Norway’s Statoil has found oil and gas at its wildcat well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The company, operator of Gimle Unit and production licence 193, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 34/10-55 S. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the company encountered a total oil and gas column of about […]

  • Dry Well For Lundin Off Norway

    15 March 2013

    Swedish oil company Lundin Petroleum completed the drilling of exploration well 16/1-17 in PL338, offshore Norway. The well targeted the Jorvik prospect located in a separate basin directly east of the Edvard Grieg field. The well is dry, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The main objective of well 16/1-17, located in the Norwegian sector […]

  • FRAM-2014/15 Arctic Ocean Expedition Arrives in Longyearbyen

    31 August 2015
    Research & Development

    Professor Yngve Kristoffersen arrived in Longyearbyen, on August 22nd 2015, with the hovercraft Sabvabaa after drifting across the inaccessible Arctic Ocean during one year. Together with Audun Tholfsen the FRAM-2014/15 ice drift station has made geological, sea ice, ocean and atmospheric measurements from the inaccessible Arctic Ocean during all four seasons. The hovercraft and the ice drift […]

  • Equinor gets the all-clear signal for North Sea drilling ops

    14 June 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Equinor has received consent from Norway’s regulator for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using one of Odfjell Drilling’s rigs.

  • Norway: Lundin, Noreco and Talisman Submit PDO for Bryngild Field

    1 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Petroleum AB (“Lundin Petroleum”) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS as operator has, with its partners Noreco ASA (Noreco) and Talisman Energy Norge AS (Talisman), submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Brynhild field (formerly called Nemo) to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The Brynhild field […]

  • Norway: Ministry of Petroleum and Energy Approves Visund South Development

    10 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    Today, 10 June, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy approved the plan for development and operation for Visund South. Production is planned to start up in the third quarter of 2012, and a subsea template is already on its way out to the field. Visund South, which is located 10 kilometres from both the […]

  • Dong hits pay on Ipswich

    20 August 2008

    Operator Dong E&P Norge has hit pay in its Ipswich exploration well near the Oselvar discovery in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said. Wildcat well 1/3-11 and sidetrack 1/3-11 T2 were drilled around 10km south of the 1/3-6 Oselvar find, with the aim of proving up petroleum in […]

  • GIEK Backs Umoe Firmus

    24 December 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Norwegian Export Credit Guarantee Agency (GIEK) has issued a buyer credit guarantee for the new WaveCraft Surface Effect Ship Umoe Firmus, constructed at Umoe Mandal shipyard. GIEK has guaranteed for loan issued by Export Credit Norway corresponding to 70 percent of the loan amount, while DNB has guaranteed for the last 30 percent. Umoe Firmus, […]

  • Trio Awarded EUR 1.5 Bln to Build UK-Norway Power Link

    14 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    A joint venture between National Grid and Statnett SF has awarded contracts totalling €1.5 billion to build the NSN link, the first electricity link between UK and Norway. NSN Link has contracted with two cable suppliers, Prysmian and Nexans, to deliver the cable needed for the 740 kilometre route length. The converter stations in both UK […]

  • WATCH: First Diver-Less Remote Hyperbaric Tie-In Operation

    22 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    DeepOcean has successfully completed the 36-inch oil export pipeline spool tie-in project on the Johan Sverdrup field for Equinor, the world’s first offshore diver-less remote hyperbaric tie-in operation. Back in July 2017, DeepOcean won an EPCI contract for performing remote hyperbaric tie-in of the oil export pipeline on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North […]

  • Norway: Det norske strikes oil at Langfjellet prospect

    31 August 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil firm Det norske oljeselskap ASA has made an oil discovery in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The oil company, operator of PL 442, said Wednesday that that drilling of exploration well 25/2-18 S on the Langfjellet prospect in the North Sea was about to be completed. “The well encountered a gross oil column […]