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  • Lundin Petroleum Acquires New Exploration Acreage in Norwegian Sea

    25 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announced that it has entered into an agreement with RWE Dea Norge AS to farm-in to PL330 located in the northern Norwegian Sea. Under the agreement Lundin Petroleum will acquire a 30 percent interest. PL330 covers an area of approximately 740 km2 and comprises blocks 6608/1 & 2. PL330 […]

  • Equinor, AkerBP and Wellesley Make Norwegian Sea Gas Discovery

    18 September 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Equinor and its partners, AkerBP and Wellesley Petroleum, have found gas in the Ørn exploration well south-west of the Marulk field in the Norwegian Sea. Recoverable resources are estimated at 8–14 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent, corresponding to 50–88 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe). “This is good news. The Ørn discovery proves […]

  • Cleantech firm finds work on Equinor’s Norwegian Sea platform

    20 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norway-based cleantech service provider Soiltech has received a call-off order under the frame agreement with compatriot energy giant Equinor to provide fluid treatment (STT) services on the latter’s platform offshore Norway.

  • Wintershall picks up drilling permit for Norwegian Sea wildcat

    17 October 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well located offshore Norway.

  • Suncor to use ‘Borgland Dolphin’ rig for Norwegian sea well

    26 January 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Suncor Energy Norge AS, a Norwegian subsidiary of Canada’s Suncor, has received consent to drill an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea. Suncor will drill the 34/4-14 S and A well, located in the production licence 375 in block 34/4. Suncor has applied for consent to drill exploration well 34/4 using Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig. […]

  • NPD: Norwegian Sea Could Store 5.5 Gigatonnes of CO2

    28 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The Norwegian Sea may be able to store 5.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, according to the NPD’s new storage atlas. This is more than 100 times Norway’s total CO2 discharge last year. The mapping is a follow-up on the atlas from 2011 for the Norwegian part of the North Sea, which was estimated to be […]

  • Equinor hits gas at Ragnfrid North well in Norwegian Sea

    16 January 2019

    Norwegian energy giant Equinor together with its partners Petoro, ExxonMobil and Total, has proven gas and condensate discovery in the Norwegian Sea Ragnfrid North (6406/2-9 S) exploration well.

  • Regulator grants drilling permit to Ineos for Norwegian Sea well

    13 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted INEOS E&P Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • TGS Expands Atlantic Margin Seismic Data in Norwegian Sea

    11 April 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    TGS has started expansion of its Atlantic Margin multi-client program in the Norwegian Sea. The new AM18 3D extension will comprise 5,135 km² of 3D seismic data and covers a variety of play models with stratigraphic and structural traps in Paleocene and Cretaceous turbidite/fan deposits. Acquisition will start early July and TGS is chartering a Shearwater seismic vessel for […]

  • Wintershall Gets Consent for Drilling of New Norwegian Sea Well

    29 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given consent to Wintershall Norge ASA for exploration drilling of well 6407/1-5 S in the Norwegian Sea with the mobile facility Borgland Dolphin. The well will be drilled in production license 475 BS/ CS, 39 kilometers southwest of Heidrun at water depth of 300 meters. Drilling is expected to start […]

  • Norwegian Sea wildcat on Odfjell Drilling-managed rig’s agenda

    19 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian authorities have handed out a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, which is expected to be drilled this month using one of Odfjell Drilling-managed semi-submersible rigs.

  • Faroe Finds Oil & Gas on Pil Well in Norwegian Sea

    6 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Faroe Petroleum, an independent oil and gas company, has made an oil and gas discovery on the Pil exploration well in the Norwegian Sea (Faroe 25%). The Pil well (6406/12-3S) encountered a gross hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir section with approximately 135 metres of oil and 91 metres of gas in the Jurassic reservoir of the Rogn Formation, […]

  • Oil discovery near Sleipner and gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea

    25 August 2008

    The presence of a considerable oil column has been confirmed under the Dagny structure in the North Sea. Gas has been proven in the deep-water Snefrid South prospect near the Luva discovery in the Norwegian Sea. “Our exploration activity this year is very high, both on the NCS and internationally. The new discoveries illustrate the […]

  • ConocoPhillips secures govt nod to spud Norwegian Sea wildcat

    9 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ConocoPhillips Skandinavia a drilling permit for a wildcat well located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Statoil gains drilling permits for two Norwegian Sea wells

    18 July 2017
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for a wildcat well and pilot well in the Norwegian Sea. The wells, designated 6507/8-9 and 6507/8-U2, will be drilled using the Deepsea Bergen semi-sub after the drilling rig completes the drilling of appraisal well 31/7-2 SA for Faroe Petroleum in production license 740. […]

  • Fairmount Tugs Bring FPSO Skarv Idun to Norwegian Sea

    29 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    Fairmount Marine’s powerful tugs Fairmount Sherpa and Fairmount Summit have towed FPSO Skarv Idun to the field in the northern Norwegian Sea after it was completed and prepared in Norway. Both tugs had already performed the tow of FPSO Skarv Idun from Korea to Norway earlier this year. The FPSO was towed at a world […]

  • Maersk Oil Gets Green Light for Drilling in Norwegian Sea

    22 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Oil Norway AS has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 6406/3-9T in the Norwegian Sea using the mobile facility Transocean Winner. The well will be drilled in production licence 431, about 12 kilometres south of the Åsgard field. The well has the following coordinates: N 64° 58′ 04″, E 06° 41′ […]

  • Wintershall Dea preparing to drill Norwegian Sea wildcat with Transocean rig

    22 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Wintershall Dea has secured a drilling permit from Norway’s authorities to spud a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Centrica to Use West Alpha Rig for Drilling in Norwegian Sea

    7 March 2012

    Centrica Energi has been granted consent to conduct exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea with the West Alpha mobile facility.  The consent applies to drilling of well 6506/11-9S, which is part of production licence 477.  Water depth at the site is 249 metres.  Drilling is scheduled to start in March 2012. The expected duration of […]

  • UK Scientists Investigate Submarine Landslides in Greenland and Norwegian Seas

    17 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    A team of UK scientists is sailing to the site of prehistoric underwater landslides near the Arctic Circle.  The scientists are aboard the Dutch research ship RV Pelagia to investigate massive submarine landslides that have occurred in the Greenland and Norwegian Seas. Landslide events within the ocean can be far larger than those on land […]

  • TGS takes Shearwater vessel for Norwegian Sea seismic shoot

    5 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian seismic vessel fleet operator Shearwater has been awarded a contract by TGS for its Polar Duchess vessel.

  • Statoil picks up drilling permit for Norwegian Sea wildcat

    24 November 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for well 6608/10-17 S, offshore Norway.  The well 6608/10-17 S will be drilled from the Deepsea Bergen semi-submersible drilling rig built in 1983 and owned by Odfjell Drilling. The drilling program for well 6608/10-17 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well […]

  • ConocoPhillips cleared to spin the drill bit at Norwegian Sea well

    27 April 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ConocoPhillips a drilling permit for a wildcat well located in the Norwegian Sea off Norway.

  • Centrica Energy Gets Go-Ahead for Norwegian Sea Drilling

    25 April 2010
    Business & Finance

    Centrica Energy has received consent to conduct exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea using the West Alpha semisub. The consent relates to the drilling of exploration well 6407/12-3, which is part of production license 470. The well is located about 126 kilometers north of Kristiansund and ten kilometers east of Draugen. The water depth at […]

  • North Energy Bolsters its Presence in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea

    22 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      North Energy will participate in this year’s first exploration well in the spring. The company will participate in at least three exploration wells in the Barents Sea in 2011, and this makes North Energy one of the oil companies with highest exploration activity in this area in the coming year. In the APA 2010 […]