10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Renaissance subsidiary awarded major oil & gas contract

    6 October 2007

    Renaissance announced that its Abu Dhabi based oil & gas subsidiary Adyard LLC was recently awarded a $35m contract by Single Buoy Moorings Inc. The contract is for the fabrication of a Mobile Offshore Production Unit for to be located on the YME Field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • Despite traces of hydrocarbons, Equinor comes up dry in North Sea well

    16 February 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has completed the drilling of an appraisal well in the North Sea but failed to find hydrocarbons.

  • Statoil marks 30th anniversary of Heimdal gas field

    30 May 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil major Statoil has marked thirty years of production from the Heimdal field located in Block 25/4 of the Norwegian North Sea, at the far north-west edge of the Utsira Formation. The Heimdal field was discovered in 1972. Development was approved in 1981 and production started in 1986. The field is operated by Statoil and […]

  • Statoil awards concept and feasibility study contracts to Wood Group

    12 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Energy services company Wood Group has been awarded two new contracts by Statoil to deliver concept and feasibility studies for the oil company’s Norwegian North Sea assets. Wood Group said on Monday that, effective immediately, it will deliver a topside concept study evaluating the tie in of Total’s Garantiana field development to Statoil’s Gullfaks B and […]

  • NOFO to Conduct Oil Spill Response Drill on Frigg Field

    15 June 2012

    The drill on the Frigg field will involve deploying oil on the sea. Norway is one of few countries in the world that permit this type of testing of equipment and procedures.

  • NPD Gives Nod for Statoil’s New North Sea Well

    22 April 2013

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 25/11-27, in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Well 25/11-27 will be drilled from the Songa Trym drilling facility at position 58°14’15.78” north and 2°32’51.25” east after completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/8-3 S for Statoil in production […]

  • TGS, EMGS Extend Joint Venture in Barents Sea

    8 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    TGS and Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) have agreed to further expand the Companies’ previous cooperation agreement in the Barents Sea.  TGS will partner with EMGS to acquire electromagnetic (EM) data over four additional blocks in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea to bring its total joint ownership of multi-client EM data in this area […]

  • Pioneering Spirit vessel removes and delivers North Sea platform jacket for disposal – gallery

    20 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Allseas and its Pioneering Spirit vessel have completed the removal of Repsol Norge’s massive 30,000-tonne Gyda platform from the North Sea.

  • New milestone at giant North Sea oil field, as it reaches record-high production level

    24 May 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor’s capacity test at the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea off Norway confirms the field can produce at an increased plateau.

  • First oil gushes out of $1.2 billion project in North Sea

    8 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    ConocoPhillips has brought on stream an oil project, which has been tied to one of the fields in the Greater Ekofisk Area in the North Sea.

  • NCL’s Upcoming Norwegian Pearl Enters Final Stretch

    26 October 2006

    The race to finish this year’s last new ship launch is nearing an end. Interior construction is ramping up on NCL’s Norwegian Pearl, which was floated out in mid-October at Papenburg, Germany’s Meyer Werft shipyard (the ship left the covered dock for an outfitting pier where all work will be completed). Come November 4, 2006, […]

  • Solstad bags extensions for two platform suppliers in Brazil

    6 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has signed contract extensions for two platform supply vessels (PSVs) with Equinor in Brazil.

  • Engie awards contracts for Gjoa FEED studies

    4 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Oil company Engie E&P Norge has awarded three contracts for front-end engineering, and design (FEED) studies for modifications at the platform in the North Sea. Engie said on Tuesday that the FEED contracts were awarded to Kongsberg Maritime, Saipem, and Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC). According to the company, the modifications are part of the work […]

  • Singapore: Jurong Shipyard, Prosafe Sign LOI for Another Accommodation Rig

    4 October 2012

    Prosafe has today entered into a Letter of Intent for the construction of a semi-submersible accommodation rig at Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (JSPL) in Singapore. The rig, which is of similar design as Safe Boreas presently in construction at JSPL, will be built to comply with Norwegian regulations. The rig will be ready for operations […]

  • Noreco Buys into Barents Sea License PL492

    4 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has entered into an agreement with Lundin Petroleum (operator) and Det Norske to acquire a 20 percent interest in licence PL492 in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. Licence PL492 is located in the western Barents Sea, on the southwestern corner of the Loppa High. The license is on trend with several […]

  • Oil & gas players get their hands on CO2 storage licenses in North Sea

    24 June 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Storage

    Three companies have confirmed the award of new CO2 storage licenses as part of the sixth call launched by Norway’s Ministry of Energy.

  • UK’s Cairn Buys Norway’s Agora Oil & Gas

    3 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Cairn announces the acquisition of Agora Oil & Gas AS (Agora) subject to regulatory approval, a private Norwegian company with non-operated, exploration, appraisal and development assets in the United Kingdom (UK) and Norwegian North Sea. The enterprise value of the proposed acquisition of Agora as at 1 January 2012 was $375 million (m), including $58m […]

  • Lundin bites dust in Barents Sea well

    10 January 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Lundin Petroleum has completed the drilling of the Hurri exploration well 7219/12-3S located in PL533 in the southern Barents Sea.

  • Prosafe Enters LoI for Construction of Accommodation Rig in Singapore

    4 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Prosafe has today entered into a Letter of Intent for the construction of a semi-submersible accommodation rig at Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (“JSPL”) in Singapore. The rig, which is of similar design as Safe Boreas presently in construction at JSPL, will be built to comply with Norwegian regulations. The rig will be ready for operations […]

  • Dana Petroleum: New Managing Director for Norwegian Activities

    14 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum has announced the appointment of a new Managing Director for its Norwegian activities. Reidar Hustoft took up his new position on 1 February replacing John M Dahlen, who is retiring from the company. John was a co-founder of Ener Petroleum which was acquired by Dana in 2007. Reidar previously ran Dana’s business […]

  • New vessels set to give cruise boost

    26 February 2010

    THE BAHAMIAN cruise industry is set for another boost this year with the introduction of two mega vessels commissioned by Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (RCCL), Tribune Business was told yesterday, while the Oasis of the Seas’ Bahamas sailing itinerary will drop to two days per month.

  • Search for missing fishing boat

    27 October 2006

    A search is under way in the North Sea for a missing Scottish fishing boat with four crew on board. The alarm was raised when staff at the RAF rescue centre at Kinloss picked up a distress beacon late on Thursday. The signal was broadcast from a location 160 miles east of Aberdeen in Norwegian […]

  • Wintershall gets nod for North Sea wildcat drilling

    28 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge AS a drilling permit for well 35/12-5 S, in the Norwegian North Sea.  Well 35/12-5 S will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic semi-submersible drilling rig after completing the drilling of wildcat well 6406/2-8 for Wintershall Norge AS in production licence 589. The drilling programme for […]

  • Methanol-fueled NCL Vestland launched in China

    27 June 2024
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    The first of two carbon-neutral 1,300 TEU vessels ordered by Norwegian container tonnage provider MPC Container Ships has been launched in China.

  • Equinor field at risk of shutdown over possible strike at Mongstad

    15 February 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital

    Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has warned that possible strike action at the Mongstad refinery could affect offshore fields on the NCS.