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  • Lundin Spuds Norall Well Offshore Norway

    6 December 2010
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that drilling of exploration well 16/7-9 on the Norall prospect has commenced. The well is located in licence PL409 in the Norwegian North Sea. PL409 is located east of the Sleipner East Field in Block 16/7 in the North Sea. The well will target the Jurassic/Triassic age sandstones in […]

  • Norway: Total Triggers Hild Field Development

    2 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    French oil giant, Total, operator of the Hild license, launches the development of Hild field located in the Norwegian North Sea. This development will represent an investment of US$4.2 billion (NOK 25.6 billion) and is subject to the approval of the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and Norwegian Parliament (Storting). Total holds a 51 […]

  • Equinor cleared to drill North Sea exploration well

    29 June 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well in the North Sea.

  • ‘Siem Amethyst’ to work for Woodside off Australia

    20 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian company Siem Offshore Inc. has been awarded a charter contract for the Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS) Siem Amethyst with Woodside Energy. The contract award came through Siem Offshore’s fully owned subsidiary Siem Offshore Australia Pty Ltd. According to Siem Offshore, Woodside will use the vessel for operations in Australia, but the company did […]

  • Norway: Veripos Sets Up Reference Station Facilities at Hammerfest

    1 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Veripos, world leaders for provision of high-precision GNSS positioning solutions for the offshore oil and gas industry, has extended the North West European sector of its global multi-source network with the establishment of new reference station facilities at Hammerfest in northern Norway. The new station, part of Veripos’s worldwide network of over 80 similar reference […]

  • Maersk Oil receives approvals for Flyndre and Cawdor fields

    28 May 2014

    Maersk Oil UK Limited has received approval from the UK and Norwegian authorities to develop the Flyndre and Cawdor fields. The fields lie approximately 293 km South East of Aberdeen in blocks 30/13 and 30/14 of the UK North Sea (Flyndre and Cawdor) and block 1/5 of the Norwegian North Sea (Flyndre only). The Flyndre […]

  • Statoil Abandons North Sea Duster (Norway)

    12 July 2012

    Norway’s Statoil , operator of production licence 552, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 34/7-35 S. The well was drilled about 4 kilometres east of the Tordis field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper and Middle Jurassic […]

  • Longboat JAPEX offloads partial stakes in two North Sea exploration licenses

    8 December 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Longboat JAPEX Norge has sold partial interests in two exploration licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) to Norway’s Concedo.

  • West Bollsta rig given compliance award

    8 October 2020
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Following several audits, the Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has awarded an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the West Bollsta drilling rig to offshore driller Seadrill.

  • Wintershall gains go-ahead to drill Barents Sea wildcat

    21 December 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), a government agency whose task is to manage the oil and gas resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, has granted Wintershall a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Barents Sea.  The well 7224/2-1, in production licence 611, will be drilled from the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Arctic following completion […]

  • NCL Changing Itineraries across Three Brands amid Cuba Ban

    10 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Short timeframe for compliance with Cuba restrictions worsen impact on Norwegian Cruise Line’s earnings.

  • OMV Gets Approval for Two Barents Sea Wells

    4 July 2013

    OMV Norge AS, a Norwegian subsidiary of Austrian oil company OMV AG, has been granted a consent for drilling of two exploration wells in the Barent Sea. The wells  7324/8-1  and 7324/7-1 S,  located in the Production Licence 537, will be drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. Wildcat well 7324/8-1 is the first […]

  • Equinor granted drilling permit for North Sea well trio

    18 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for three wells in the North Sea.

  • Amon Maritime, BSM form ammonia-powered ship management JV

    5 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    Hamburg-based maritime services company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) and the Norwegian ammonia specialist Amon Maritime have decided to form a 50/50 joint venture named Ula Ship Management.

  • Statoil gets approval to drill Barents Sea well

    19 June 2014

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7325/1-1, in the Barents Sea. The well 7325/1-1 will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig at position 73°54’49.50″north and 25°06’59.70″east. The drilling programme for well 7325/1-1 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 615. Statoil […]

  • Atlantic Offshore awarded ERRV work on Maersk’s Culzean field

    15 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Offshore’s emergency response and rescue vessel (ERRV) Ocean Troll will provide emergency response and rescue services for Maersk Oil’s Culzean project in the central North Sea.

  • Norway: Aibel Wins Major Ekofisk Deal by ConocoPhillips

    4 April 2011
    Business & Finance

    ConocoPhillips has recently awarded Aibel several contracts for modification work at the Ekofisk field. The value of the contracts is approximately NOK 280 million. Aibel is carrying out modifications on several of the platforms at the Ekofisk field in order to hook up a new wellhead platform (2/4-Z) in 2013. Aibel is also hooking up […]

  • Ulstein Group and IDEA Heavy Equipment to Establish JV Company in the Netherlands

    2 May 2011
    Business & Finance

    A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed at 27 April 2011, which outlines the main principles of how Norwegian Ulstein Group and Netherlands based IDEA Heavy Equipment are joining forces. The companies have entered into an MOU which will lead to an operational business in the Netherlands by the first of July 2011. A new […]

  • Repsol Picks Allseas for Gyda Platform Removal Task

    20 September 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Repsol Norge has awarded Allseas an EPRD contract for the removal, transfer, load-in to shore and disposal of its Gyda platform in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract covers both the 18,000t topsides and 11,200t jacket, and includes an option for reinstallation on another field, which would be an unprecedented step for a fixed installation […]

  • Wood Group in Utgard field subsea tie-back design

    29 August 2016
    Equipment

    Wood Group has been awarded the detailed design scope of the subsea tie-back from the Utgard gas and condensate field to the Sleipner facilities, in the Norwegian North Sea. The $1 million work scope is the first call off under the master service agreement (MSA) signed in May 2016. Effective immediately, the three-year contract will […]

  • Norwegian union slams offshore driller for cheap labor use

    3 February 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore workers’ union Industri Energi has discovered social dumping on the Ocean Rig-owned rig Leiv Eiriksson, which is working for Lundin offshore Norway. According to the European Foundation (Eurofound), despite an increase in usage of the expression, there is still no clear, universally accepted definition of ‘social dumping,’ but the term itself has a negative […]

  • Horisont Energi inks LOIs for commercial carbon storage

    30 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian carbon tech company and driving force behind the Polaris carbon capture and storage project Horisont Energi has signed several letters of intent with major European companies, continuing its steady progress towards commercial carbon storage off the coast of Norway.

  • Lundin spins drill bit on Fosen prospect (Norway)

    25 January 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Lundin Petroleum’s Norwegian subsidiary, Lundin Norway, has started drilling the exploration well 16/4-10 on the Fosen prospect, offshore Norway.  The well is located approximately 27 km south of the Edvard Grieg field and 11 km south of the Luno II discovery on the Utsira High on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Well 16/4-10 will explore […]

  • ConocoPhillips shelves $2B oil field development in Norway

    11 March 2015
    Project & Tenders

    ConocoPhillips has decided to cancel the development project for the Tommeliten Alpha discovery, offshore Norway. According to Aftenbladet, a Stavanger-based paper, the company has decided to shelf the $2 billion development in the Norwegian North Sea due to the low oil prices. The newspaper says it believes that ConocoPhillips’ partners in the project, Statoil and […]

  • NPD Contracts PGS and Dolphin for Seismic Data Acquisition (Norway)

    23 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has entered into contracts with Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) and Dolphin Geophysical for the acquisition of seismic data.  The contracts have a total value of NOK 170 million (USD 28.6 million) . The vessels M/V Nordic Explorer (PGS) and yyy (Dolphin Geophysical) will acquire seismic data around Jan Mayen and in […]