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  • Norway: Statoil Strengthens its Position in the Barents Sea

    14 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Statoil and OMV in Norway have entered into an agreement regarding swap of interests in two licences in the Barents Sea. Statoil will take over 15 percent of OMV’s 40 percent interest in production licence 537. The licence was awarded in the 20th licensing round in 2009 with OMV as the operator. Statoil previously had […]

  • Statoil shuts Sleipner A production after alarm goes off

    18 August 2014

    Norwegian oil giant Statoil has shut production on one of its offshore platforms in the North Sea.

  • Horisont Energi picks site for Errai onshore CO2 terminal

    6 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Horisont Energi has selected a site in Norway where the onshore CO2 terminal for the Errai large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project will be located. The Norwegian company entered into an option agreement with Haugaland Næringspark to locate the land-based CO2 terminal for the Errai CCS project to Gismarvik in Rogaland, on the west […]

  • Aiming for oil, Statoil strikes gas in Barents Sea well

    7 August 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Norway’s Statoil has made a small, non-commercial, gas discovery in the Gemini North well, northeast of the Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea. The well also proved oil, Statoil said on Monday. “The well was drilled with the ambition of proving up additional oil resources in the vicinity of the Wisting discovery, but like the previous […]

  • EMGS sells Barents Sea data

    14 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS), a Norwegian geophysical company, has entered into a new data licensing agreement with an oil company for the provision of 3D EM data. According to EMGS, the data is from its multi-client data library over the Barents Sea and the contract is worth $1.1 million. EMGS did not reveal the name of the client.  However, […]

  • Spectrum to Start Airborne Seismic Survey in Barents Sea

    26 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Spectrum reports that the mobilization has commenced for the acquisition of an airborne gravity/magnetic/seep Multi-Client survey in the Barents Sea South East. The survey will cover the entire newly opened area with approximately 29,280 km to be acquired. The survey aircraft will also carry, on an experimental basis, the new revolutionary GRAVEX high-sensitivity gravity sensing […]

  • Unions Fight for North Sea Jobs

    31 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Maritime and oil and gas unions affiliated to global federations IndustriAll and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) met in Aberdeen 19-20 May 2016 to begin development of an industrial and political strategy to challenge the replacement of quality jobs with cheap labour by employers in the North Sea. The group represents workers from Denmark, […]

  • Prosafe gets $13.6 million worth North Sea job from ConocoPhillips

    26 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Prosafe has been awarded a contract by ConocoPhillips to provide accommodation support on the Ekofisk field located offshore Norway.

  • Equinor strikes oil at Telesto well in Norway’s North Sea

    4 March 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has made an oil discovery from the Visund A platform in the Telesto exploration well in the North Sea, offshore Norway. According to Equinor, the resources are estimated at 12-28 million barrels of recoverable oil.

  • Solstad Offshore lands new vessel deals

    8 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Solstad Offshore has entered into contracts for three of its large platform supply vessels and an anchor handler.

  • Wartsila Retrofits North Sea Giant’s Energy Storage Solution

    22 December 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Wärtsilä has agreed to retrofit the energy storage solution on board the North Sea Giant subsea construction vessel. The vessel will be fitted with an energy storage system that reduces the vessel’s energy consumption, operating costs and exhaust emissions. The retrofit energy storage system improves the operational efficiency and environmental footprint of the North Sea […]

  • FPSO delay pushes North Sea project’s costs up by $400 million and bumps first oil to 2025

    21 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Vår Energi has made changes to the schedule for the start-up of an oil field life extension project in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, moving it to the second quarter of 2025.

  • AGS Inks North Sea OBN Survey Deal

    24 February 2020
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian ocean bottom node seismic company Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) has signed a letter of intent with an undisclosed oil company to start an OBN survey in the North Sea. The work is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2020, after fulfillment of certain conditions, AGS said in Monday’s Oslo Exchange filing. The […]

  • Norway: IOS Offshore to be Renamed IOS InterMoor AS

    23 August 2010
    Business & Finance

    InterMoor, an Acteon company, has announced that Acteon’s recently acquired subsidiary, IOS Offshore AS, will now be known as IOS InterMoor AS in a move which closely aligns the business with InterMoor’s globally recognized mooring business. Established in 1986, IOS Offshore is a leading supplier of mooring equipment and services to the Norwegian offshore oil […]

  • EU Gives Thumbs Up for NordLink and NSN Grant

    13 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The EU Commission has welcomed the announcement made today by the Norwegian government to licence the construction of two subsea cables linking Norway to Germany and UK. The two 1400 MW subsea cables will enable the three countries to exchange electricity and use the Norwegian hydropower potential. Vice-President of the EU Commission, responsible for Energy, […]

  • ConocoPhillips extends Ekofisk contract with Archer

    30 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Archer Limited announces that ConocoPhillips has exercised an option to extend its contract with Archer AS for the provision of Platform Drilling services for the Greater Ekofisk Area. The Platform Drilling contract was originally signed in early 2010 and previously would have expired June 2015. The contract extension will now start immediately thereafter for five years […]

  • Norwegian Geotechnical Institute Secures Work on Dutch Offshore Wind Zone

    10 February 2020
    Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has won a contract to develop an integrated ground model as part of a tender for geotechnical soil investigations at the Ten Noorden van de Waddeneilanden wind farm zone in the Dutch North Sea. The contract is valued at around EUR 300,000. As previously reported, under the same tender, the […]

  • Spirit Energy gains nod for Barents Sea wildcat

    21 June 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Spirit Energy Norge a drilling permit for well 7322/7-1 located in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. 

  • Eni cleared for underwater ops at Goliat

    30 June 2017

    Eni Norge, a Norwegian entity of the Italian oil major Eni, has received consent to perform manned underwater operations on the Goliat field off Norway. Goliat is an oil field in the Barents Sea, around 85 kilometers northwest of Hammerfest. The field has been developed using a cylindrical FPSO. The wells are drilled from subsea […]

  • Statoil: Minister of EEA and EU affairs visits Troll A platform

    22 October 2015
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Vidar Helgesen (Conservative Party of Norway), minister of European Economic Area (EEA) and EU affairs, has paid a visit to the Statoil-operated ‘Troll A’ platform, in the Troll field, located in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The reason behind the visit was the start-up of the two new giant compressors on the Troll A platform in […]

  • Image of the Day: Kleven’s Newbuilds Test Their Mettle

    3 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Kleven’s newbuild duo are pictured here testing their mettle in the North Sea. The two are purpose-built offshore construction vessel Grand Canyon II (on the left) being built by Myklebust Verft  and offshore supply ship Olympic Bibby being built by Kleven Verft (on the right) sailing side by side on their respective sea trials. The 126-meter long Gran […]

  • Neptune Energy increases stake in Dugong discovery

    8 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Oil and gas exploration firm Neptune Energy has signed an agreement with Concedo for the acquisition of a further five per cent interest in the Dugong license in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • Danish Authorities Give Nod for Siri Production Restart

    23 December 2013

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has approved a temporary production solution at the Siri platform in the Danish part of the North Sea.   According to DONG Energy which is the operator of the Siri Fairway fields, this means that production at the Nini, Nini East and Cecilie fields may resume in the first quarter […]

  • Repsol’s North Sea field secures life extension

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

    Repsol has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator for the life extension of a field in the North Sea off Norway.

  • Det norske to buy Noreco’s Norwegian licence portfolio

    2 March 2016

    Noreco’s subsidiary, Noreco Norway, has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Det norske oljeselskap for the sale of its remaining exploration licences, employees and a cash balance of ca. NOK 45 million, to be adjusted for working capital. The effective date of the transaction is January 1, 2016. According to Det norske, the […]