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  • North Energy to combine petroleum ops in single company after Explora buy

    12 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    North Energy, a Norwegian oil company, has announced a completion of its transaction for an exploration and production company, also from Norway, Explora Petroleum.  North Energy acquired Explora Petroleum for a cash payment of $2.5 million in December 2015. The transaction was conditional on the approval of the Norwegian government. Explora had 18 employees and 16 licences […]

  • Double contract wins for UK decom player in North Sea and Africa

    8 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Northern Ireland-based pipeline decommissioning specialist Decom Engineering has secured two contracts to carry out cutting operations on decommissioning projects in the North Sea and offshore West Africa. According to Decom, the two contracts are worth more than £300,000 and will see the company deploy its cold cutting saws which were designed and developed for energy sector […]

  • Offshore safety body checks Repsol’s emergency preparedness at Gyda

    20 March 2017

    Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found four improvement points during its audit of Repsol’s emergency preparedness and the helideck at the Gyda platform in the North Sea off Norway.  The Gyda field is located in the southern North Sea between Ula and Ekofisk. It has been developed using an integrated […]

  • SHI strengthens its dominance in the global drill ship market

    2 May 2006

    Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) announced on May 2 that it won US$550 million worth of order to build a drill ship from Norwegian ocean energy development firm Ferncliff Drilling AS. This will be the worlds largest drill ship ever to be built. A drill ship is an offshore drilling facility that prospects for crude oil […]

  • In pursuit of balanced import and export, North Sea Link to reduce capacity

    16 March 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Norway’s Statnett has decided to reduce the maximum capacity on the 1,400 MW North Sea Link interconnector between Norway and the UK in order to make a balance for import and export. Capacity will be set to a maximum of 1,100 MW in both directions, from the installed capacity of 1,400 MW, and will be […]

  • Lundin sees ‘good potential’ in Barents Sea. Scoops five blocks

    18 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Petroleum, a Swedish independent oil and gas company, has been awarded five new licenses in the Barents Sea following today’s results of the 23rd offshore licensing round in Norway. The company will manage its new acreage through its Norwegian subsidiary Lundin Norway, which will operate three of the five blocks awarded. All the licenses […]

  • Faroe gets OK for Brasse appraisal

    4 May 2017

    Faroe Petroleum has secured a nod from the Norwegian authorities to drill an appraisal well in the North Sea, off Norway. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, which has granted the approval for the well, has said that the well 31/7-2 S will be drilled from the Deepsea Bergen drilling semi-submersible drilling rig. Faroe recently made an oil and […]

  • Equinor awards key contracts for wind project to power oil and gas platforms

    31 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Equinor has signed contracts totalling around NOK 3.3 billion for the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm development. The project will supply electrical power to the nearby oil and gas platforms Gullfaks A, B, C and Snorre A and B. 

  • Aker Solutions wins 3-year deal from Total in North Sea

    7 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian oil services company Aker Solutions has won a three-year contract extension from the French oil major Total to provide maintenance and operations services at the Elgin and Franklin fields in the UK North Sea. Aker Solutions said on Tuesday that this work is valued at more than NOK 400 million ($49M). A day earlier, the […]

  • UK: BP Places Order for 4 Platform Supply Vessels

    17 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The purpose built and highly specified vessels have been designed to provide long term support to BP’s North Sea business and will provide the capabilities BP requires to deliver its strategy more efficiently and safely.

  • VIDEO: ‘Gina Krog’ modules en route to Norway

    5 July 2016
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil has shared a video of the modules for Gina Krog topside sailing away from South Korea to Norway. The video shows the sailaway of the modules loaded aboard two heavy transport vessels from South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s shipyard. The transport from Korea to the North Sea […]

  • Maersk Oil produces first oil from Flyndre field

    27 March 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Danish oil company Maersk Oil has started production from the Flyndre field in the UK and Norwegian North Sea. Maersk reported on Monday that the first oil began to flow at 20:00 hrs on Sunday, March 26 travelling 25 km via pipeline to the Repsol Sinopec-operated Clyde platform. Production from the Flyndre field is expected […]

  • Esvagt vessel wins North Sea extension

    20 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    Esvagt will continue to provide guard vessel duty and standby preparedness on the Yme field offshore Norway.

  • Viasea: New wind- and hydrogen-powered ships to gradually become 100% zero emission

    14 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    The new wind- and hydrogen-powered containerships that will join Viasea Shipping’s fleet will be gradually switching to zero-emission operation depending on the hydrogen availability, the Norwegian shipping line said.

  • Equinor gets nod for exploration well in Barents Sea

    10 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore safety body has given its consent to Equinor for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea with the West Hercules drilling rig. 

  • AGR DS to Provide Excavation Technology and Expertise for LOTOS Petrobaltic (Poland)

    28 February 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

      AGR Drilling Services has signed a NOK9.3m ($1.6 million) contract to supply its excavation technology and expertise – hot on the heels of a NOK84m deal for the company. The latest deal is with LOTOS Petrobaltic SA, the only Polish firm involved in oil exploration and extraction in the Baltic Sea. AGR DS will […]

  • Report: Beerenberg prepares for another round of layoffs

    10 October 2016

    Norwegian oilfield services company Beerenberg has reportedly decided to lay off another 250 employees.  Back in August 2016, the company failed to secure an extension to the maintenance services frame agreement on the ConocoPhillips-operated Ekofisk field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The contract had an annual turnover of NOK 400 million ($49.5M). […]

  • Marathon, Partners Submit Bøyla Field PDO (Norway)

    4 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Marathon Oil and its partners ConocoPhillips and Lundin Petroleum have submitted the plan for development and operation (PDO) of the Bøyla field located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The Bøyla development is expected to begin production during the fourth quarter of 2014. Lundin Petroleum holds 15 percent […]

  • Island Intervention Gets New MacGregor 250-Tonne SWL AHC Subsea Crane

    18 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won a contract to deliver a 250-tonne SWL active heave-compensated (AHC) subsea crane for the 120m construction vessel, Island Intervention. The crane was ordered by Marine Procurement Ltd, part of the US company Edison Chouest Offshore. An existing vessel operated by the US/Norwegian partnership between Edison Chouest Offshore and Island […]

  • UK: BP Orders Four New PSVs

    17 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    BP announced today it has ordered four new platform support vessels (PSV) to help deliver its long term business strategy in the North Sea. The vessels will be deployed to support its West of Shetland (WoS) and Norwegian operations and be delivered between the winter of 2013 and summer of 2014. The purpose built and […]

  • Bibby Offshore’s New Office in Norway to Boost Its International Presence

    27 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Bibby Offshore, a leading provider of subsea installation, inspection, repair and maintenance services to the offshore oil and gas industry, announces its continued international expansion with the opening of an office in Stavanger, Norway. The Norwegian office for Bibby Offshore will be headed by Arne Lier. Bibby Offshore has a leading subsea services position in […]

  • Statens vegvesen Plans Subsea Tunnel Construction (Norway)

    2 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Statens vegvesen (The Norwegian Public Roads Administration) and  Troms County invites tenders for underwater tunnel construction, sea fillings with 4 bridges and a road which will connect Grytøy, Sandsøy and Bjarkøy municipalities. The work scope for this project consists of the construction of an underwater tunnel which will go under Kvernsundet and connect Grytøy and […]

  • TGS, EMGS Expand Barents Sea 3D Survey Area

    8 May 2014

    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 […]

  • Magseis starts Red Sea seismic survey for Saudi Aramco

    1 August 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Magseis, a Norwegian geophysical company, has together with its partner BGP Arabia officially started operations on Saudi Aramco’s project in the Red Sea.  Magseis was awarded Saudi Aramco’s S78 project for large-scale ocean bottom seismic acquisition in the Red Sea in February 2016. The company said on Monday that the project started following a period of preparation and testing. […]

  • AF Gruppen scoops North Sea decom job

    12 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian engineering and construction company AF Gruppen has been awarded a new offshore decommissioning project with a client in the UK sector of the North Sea.