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  • Read DNV GL’s report ‘Subsea – Technology Developments, Incidents and Future Trends’

    8 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    DNV GL has issued the report ‘Subsea – Technology Developments, Incidents and Future Trends’ on behalf of the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority. “The ongoing increase in technology enhancement and the number of worldwide subsea field developments will demand greater focus on a number of issues. The report aims to raise awareness and share knowledge within […]

  • DNV GL Presents Subsea Technology Report

    8 May 2014
    Research & Development

    DNV GL has issued the report ‘Subsea – Technology Developments, Incidents and Future Trends’ on behalf of the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority. “The ongoing increase in technology enhancement and the number of worldwide subsea field developments will demand greater focus on a number of issues. The report aims to raise awareness and share knowledge within […]

  • Pioneering Spirit Stinger Completed

    8 April 2016
    Equipment

    A 150-meter steel structure that weighs about 4,200 tonnes was recently loaded out at Vlissingen yard. The structure is a stinger, a frame that will hang behind the “world’s largest” vessel the Pioneering Spirit. The stinger is used to lead the pipe to the bottom of the sea during the installation phase. Smulders was responsible for the […]

  • EMGS confirms multi-client data deal

    13 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has confirmed a framework contract with an existing customer for licensing of multi-client data.

  • Solstad Starts Negotiations with Lenders Over Liquidity Concerns

    22 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian owner and operator of offshore vessels Solstad Offshore has started negotiations with lenders to improve the overall liquidity situation prior to the North Sea winter season. According to the company, the winter season is expected to be challenging for the company’s liquidity position. Solstad Farstad has therefore decided to begin negotiations with lenders and other stakeholders […]

  • WorleyParsons Buys Bergen Group Rosenberg (Norway)

    1 March 2013

    WorleyParsons said it has completed the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Bergen Group Rosenberg AS. Rosenberg is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bergen Group ASA, a listed Norwegian company. Rosenberg currently employs approximately 650 people. Operating in a fully-integrated engineering, fabrication and construction environment, Rosenberg has a strong track record in the offshore oil […]

  • Offshore Wind Industry Gets Underwater Drone

    19 May 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    A Norwegian technology company, Blueye Robotics, has developed an underwater drone that allows offshore wind companies to perform inspection of underwater structures and power cables without the need for divers or remotely operated vehicles.

  • Oil Flows from Knarr Field Off Norway

    18 March 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    BG Group announced that the Petrojarl Knarr floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel had started production from the Knarr oil field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.    The FPSO has been leased from Teekay Corporation and is moored approximately 120 kilometres off the Norwegian coast. It has a production capacity of 63 000 […]

  • VIDEO: Vega Subsea Field

    21 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    A little over a year ago Wintershall took over the operatorship of the subsea oil and gas field Vega from Statoil. Vega is the BASF subsidiary’s first operated subsea tie-in field in Norway. The Vega field is a subsea facility located in the Norwegian section of the North Sea at 375 meters water depth. It […]

  • Aker Solutions Gets Equipment Frame Agreement for Statoil’s Heidrun Platform

    20 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Aker Solutions has won a frame agreement from Statoil to supply, refurbish and store compensation equipment used to stabilise and control the production risers on the Heidrun platform in the North Sea. The contract value is undisclosed. Production risers are vertical pipelines between the seabed and a floating production facility. They are used to transport […]

  • Aker Solutions Plans to Establish Office in Tromso (Norway)

    1 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    As the chase for oil and gas moves further north, the oil services industry follows. Today Aker Solutions announces plans to establish a large engineering office in Tromsø as part of the company’s northern Norway strategy. The new office will gather knowledge and expertise related to the northern region. It will become involved in engineering […]

  • DeepOcean Bags USD 271.4 Mln Contract with Statoil (Norway)

    20 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group, has been awarded the single largest contract in the history of the company since it was founded in 1999. The contract is for a firm period of 5 years starting in the first quarter of 2014 with options for another 3 years and covers subsea Inspection, Maintenance and […]

  • Green light for Wintershall’s wildcat offshore Norway

    6 July 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/11-20 A, in the North Sea offshore Norway.  The well 35/11-20 A will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig, after completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/5-6 for Tullow Oil Norge in production licence 776. Recently, Dolphin Drilling, the operator […]

  • DeepOcean to Install PRM System on Statoil’s Snorre Field (Norway)

    24 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    DeepOcean UK, Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, today announced an award from Statoil AS for the installation and trenching of a Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) System on the Snorre oil field in the North Sea, Norwegian Sector. The project represents DeepOcean UK’s largest ever contract award. The multi-year project commences in 2013 […]

  • Siem Offshore Sells MRSV to Repay Bank Debt (Norway)

    1 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian company Siem Offshore has announced that the sale and delivery of its Multi Role Service Vessel, Siem Swordfish, was concluded on 31 July in line with the charterer’s purchase option that was exercised in December 2009. The gross sales proceeds is in the equivalent of USD 54 million. The proceeds will be used to repay […]

  • Aker Solutions Wins Heidrun Platform Works

    20 June 2013

    Aker Solutions has won a frame agreement from Statoil to supply, refurbish and store compensation equipment used to stabilise and control the production risers on the Heidrun platform in the North Sea. The contract value is undisclosed. Production risers are vertical pipelines between the seabed and a floating production facility. They are used to transport […]

  • Offshore regulator launches investigation into Gjoa gas leak

    23 June 2017

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has launched an investigation into a hydrocarbon leak on the Gjøa field, located in the North Sea off Norway, on June 21. Engie E&P, as the operator of the field, shut down the production from the field following the incident on Wednesday. The operator on Thursday revealed […]

  • Black Sea Survey Uncovers New Ancient Shipwrecks

    20 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project (Black Sea MAP), led by the University of Southampton, and the largest maritime archaeology expedition ever undertaken, has discovered 60 shipwrecks. The project has during September continued to survey the Black Sea seafloor off the Bulgarian coast. The main aim has been to reconstruct old landscapes and shorelines which today […]

  • Statoil gains nod for ‘Bideford Dolphin’ use on North Sea well

    26 January 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Statoil, a Norwegian oil and gas major, has been granted consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use the Bideford Dolphin drilling rig to drill a sidetrack well on the Vigdis field, offshore Norway. The field is located in production licence 089 in the North Sea. According to the safety authority, planned start-up […]

  • North Sea drilling leads to another oil & gas discovery where 12 more sprung up since 2018

    14 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has made a new oil and gas discovery in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, using one of the semi-submersible rigs owned by Odfjell Drilling.

  • Green light for Statoil to drill Korpfjell well with ‘Songa Enabler’

    30 June 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Oil firm Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for exploration drilling in block 7435/12 in the Barents Sea with the Songa Enabler drilling rig.  The offshore safety regulator reported on Friday that the wells 7435/12-1 and 7435/12-U-1 will be drilled in a prospect named Korpfjell in block 7435/12 in the Barents Sea […]

  • Equinor cleared for Barents Sea exploration drilling

    22 June 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received consent from the PSA to drill an exploration well off Norway using the West Hercules drilling rig.

  • TechnipFMC to supply subsea system for Snorre expansion project

    5 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    TechnipFMC will provide the subsea system for the Statoil-operated Snorre project expansion in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • DOF Subsea secures North Sea work for its vessels

    9 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    DOF Subsea has recently secured several new contracts for project scopes to be carried out over the next few months in the North Sea.

  • Lundin Makes ‘Potentially Significant’ Oil Discovery (Norway)

    8 April 2013

    Lundin Petroleum AB  has announced that the drilling of exploration well 16/4-6S on the Luno II prospect in the Norwegian part of the North Sea has resulted in a potentially significant oil discovery. The well is located in PL359 in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The well will now […]