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  • Norway: RWE Dea Norge Gets a Go-Ahead for Drilling of Well 35/9-6 S

    22 September 2010

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted RWE Dea Norge AS a drilling permit for well 35/9-6 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 35/9-6 S will be drilled from the Bredford Dolphin drilling facility at position 61°22’16” north, 3°41’33” east after completing the drilling of wildcat well 6507/7-14 S for RWE […]

  • Statoil to use Scarabeo 5 rig on Snøhvit field

    24 June 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use the Scarabeo 5 drilling rig for drilling and completing well 7121/4-G-4 H located in the Snøhvit field, in the Barents Sea. Scarabeo 5 is a type ME 4500 semi-submersible drilling rig built by Fincantieri Shipyards in Genoa, Italy in 1990. It is operated by Saipem […]

  • Eni’s Goliat passes environmental data collection test

    28 December 2016

    Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has carried out an audit of environmental data collection at Eni’s Goliat FPSO in the Barents Sea, off Norway. The regulations instruct the companies to equip the facilities with instrumentation for recording environmental data of potential significance for petroleum activities. According to the safety authority, in the Barents Sea, environmental […]

  • Safety watchdog gives green light for Songa Equinox rig

    2 December 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Songa Offshore, a Norway-based midwater drilling contractor, has received an approval from the Norwegian safety watchdog for the use of first out of its four Cat D drilling rigs, the Songa Equinox.  Songa Offshore took delivery of the Songa Equinox from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering on June 30,  2015, and the rig arrived in Norwegian waters on […]

  • PGNiG completes Duva field entry

    31 October 2019

    PGNiG Upstream Norway, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Polish state-owned oil company PGNiG, has completed the acquisition of a 20 percent stake in the Duva field from Wellesley Petroleum.

  • Suncor Energy gains nod for exploration well in North Sea

    21 May 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Suncor Energy Norge AS a drilling permit for well 25/10-13 S, in the North Sea. Well 25/10-13 S will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig in the central North Sea. Suncor recently completed drilling of an appraisal well 34/4-14 S in the North Sea with the Borgland […]

  • Norway sells 3D seismic data from area southeast of Troll

    12 July 2016

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is selling 3D seismic data from an area southeast of Troll field, block 31/5 as well as a small part of Block 31/4, located in the North Sea.  The NPD, a  government agency whose task is to manage the oil and gas resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, acquired the seismic data in […]

  • Norway: Emerson Provides Metering Systems for Statoil’s Valemon

    14 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    In one of the first projects covered by the framework agreement, Emerson will provide a range of integrated fiscal metering systems for Statoil’s new Valemon gas and condensate platform.

  • Singapore: Axis Offshore Places Order for Second Semi-Submersible Flotel

    11 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Axis Offshore  announced the ordering of the company’s second semi-submersible flotel Axis Vega. Axis Vega is the second in a series of up to four flotels to be built at Cosco Shipyard. Axis Vega is expected to be delivered year-end 2015. The sister vessel, Axis Nova, has been under construction at Cosco Shipyard since August […]

  • Report: Scotland should learn from Norway and create oil fund

    17 September 2014

    A new economic analysis of a potential Scottish Oil or Sovereign Wealth Fund has found that in 24 years Scotland could earn the same annual revenue from an oil fund as current revenues from North Sea oil and gas tax receipts. The new economic outlook, undertaken by economists for oilandgaspeople.com, which describes itself as the […]

  • Norway: Total gets approval to drill North Sea well

    21 December 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted a drilling permit to Total E&P Norge AS for well 1/5-5 in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The well, 1/5-5 will be drilled from the Maersk Gallant jack-up drilling rig. The drilling program for well 1/5-5 applies to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 618. Total E&P Norge […]

  • DOF Subsea to Change Mooring Parts on Njord B and Norne Units (Norway)

    22 February 2013

    DOF Subsea Norway has secured a contract with Statoil Petroleum AS for Mooring Installation Services utilising the vessel Skandi Skolten. The scope of work is to change out mooring segments on the Njord B FSU and Norne FPSO installations in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea whilst these are in production. The offshore operations […]

  • MOL gains drilling permit for North Sea well

    14 October 2019
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted MOL Norge, a Norwegian unit of the Hungarian oil company MOL, a drilling permit for well 25/8-19 S in the North Sea offshore Norway.  

  • TGS, AGS Collaborate on OBN Projects in North Sea

    12 November 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    TGS has announced a strategic collaboration with Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) for multi-client ocean bottom node projects in the North Sea.   The area of mutual interest covers the core part of the central North Sea up to and including the Utsira area. Under the agreement, the parties will work together to develop opportunities to co-invest […]

  • Aker Solutions gets subsea system order from ConocoPhillips

    25 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Aker Solutions has won a large contract from ConocoPhillips to provide a subsea production system for the Eldfisk North development offshore Norway.

  • New task for Equinor to handle nonconformities at North Sea platform

    21 April 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Norway’s offshore safety regulator is awaiting a response from Equinor regarding the way the identified nonconformities will be sorted out.

  • Norwegian firm gets work on new vessel for Europe’s huge gas project

    14 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Norwegian Electric Systems (NES) has been tasked with developing and delivering complete energy design, an integrated automation system, and its future-oriented bridge system for a field support vessel a Norwegian shipyard is constructing for a giant gas project operated by Romanian’s integrated energy player OMV Petrom.

  • Vissim to deliver ocean space surveillance system to Equinor

    11 December 2018
    Equipment

    Equinor and Vissim have reached a global frame agreement to deploy its solution for surveillance of ocean space surrounding all Equinor-operated assets off UK and Norway.

  • China: CIMC Raffles, COSL Ink Contract for New Semi-submersible Rig

    2 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Limited and COSL Drilling Europe yesterday signed the contract for deepwater semi-submersible platform, the COSLPROSPECTOR, in Beijing. The COSLPROSPECTOR is a DP3 vessel with an operating depth of 1,500 metres, a drilling depth of 7,600 metres and a designed operating temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius. Classed by DNV with basic […]

  • First power flows from world’s largest floating offshore wind farm

    14 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    First power has been produced from the first turbine at Equinor’s Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The power from the first turbine, which was installed in June, was delivered to the Gullfaks A platform in the North Sea on 13 November. The Hywind Tampen floating offshore […]

  • Goliat FPSO to Leave Hyundai Yard in 2015

    16 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Eni Norge has announced that the Goliat FPSO will depart the Hyundai yard in South Korea in early 2015, a decision taken at a licence meeting on Friday 16 May. The licence determined that conditions to depart at the end of June 2014, and complete commissioning in Norway in Q4 2014, were not in place. […]

  • Talisman makes near Varg find

    27 June 2008

    Talisman Energy has hit pay in a wildcat well near the Varg field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said the find in well 15/12-20 S contains between 690,000 – 1.6m bbl of oil. Talisman is now planning to fast-track the discovery as a tieback the Varg field […]

  • Teekay Offshore Agrees USD 414 Mn Loan for Four Newbuildings

    5 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Teekay Offshore will finance four new LNG-fueled shuttle tankers, set for delivery in 2019 and 2020.

  • Fred. Olsen Orders USD 700 mln Rig from Hyundai Heavy (South Korea)

    27 May 2012

    A wholly owned subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy ASA has entered into a turnkey contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for the building of a harsh environment ultra deepwater semi submersible drilling rig with scheduled delivery in March 2015. Total project cost is estimated to USD 700 million (including spare parts, owner furnished equipment […]

  • Reef Subsea Buys Vako (Norway)

    7 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Reef Subsea AS announced today that one of its Norwegian subsidiaries, Scanmudring AS, has fully acquired Norwegian company Vako AS. Scanmudring had previously owned 38% of Vako and today bought the remaining 62% for full ownership. Vako will be integrated into Scanmudring Rotech Subsea, a group of companies that have merged since Reef Subsea acquired […]