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  • Aker Solutions’ drilling rig hull sails away from Dubai to Stord in Norway

    16 April 2008

    The hull substructure for the world’s most advanced drilling rig Aker H-6e has started on its 50 days journey from Dubai to Stord in Norway. Weighing 16 000 tonnes, equalling 16 000 cars, this is one of the largest drilling rigs to be towed. The hull is constructed by Aker Solutions at Drydocks World’s Dubai […]

  • Power Restored at Visund Platform

    7 August 2013

    Statoil’s Visund platform, which lost electricity on Sunday, has restored its main power supply yesterday afternoon. The power outage forced Statoil to shut production at the platform and transfer 84 workers to the nearby Gullfaks A platform in the North Sea. “Work is now ongoing to get back in normal operation as soon as possible, too […]

  • Engie to Modify Gjøa Platform for Skarfjell Subsea Tie-Back

    17 February 2017
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Engie E&P Norge has awarded Rosenberg WorleyParsons the front end engineering and design (FEED) study for modifications at the Gjøa platform in the North Sea. The modifications are needed for the subsea tie-back connection of the the Skarfjell field to the Gjøa platform. The partners in the Skarfjell license PL418, operated by Wintershall Norge, have selected […]

  • Noreco: Luna Well a Duster (Denmark)

    19 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) reports it is in the process of completing the drilling of exploration well Luna-1X in licence 1/11 in Denmark. The well did not encounter hydrocarbons. Luna is located in a small half graben with the pinch out edge to the south east of the structure. The well was spudded a […]

  • Italian Saipem Secures Several New Contracts

    7 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Saipem announced that it has been awarded several new contracts from the end of November 2012 to date. In Saudi Arabia, Saipem has been awarded a lump sum contract by Saudi Aramco increasing the original scope of work agreed in early 2011 for the development of the Arabiyah and Hasbah fields, located in the Arabic […]

  • Norwegian seismic company wins first offshore wind contract

    14 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Norwegian seismic company SeaBird Exploration has secured its first contract in the offshore wind sector. SeaBird will provide its survey vessel Petrel Explorer as an accommodation vessel for a wind farm maintenance campaign in the Baltic Sea. The company did not disclose the name of the project, but did say that the contract will start in […]

  • Suncor bites dust in North Sea

    18 January 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Suncor Energy Norge, operator of production licence 571, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 25/10-14 S, in the Central North Sea. The well is dry.  The well was drilled in the central part of the North Sea, about five kilometres west of the Balder field and about 200 kilometres north-west of Stavanger. According to the […]

  • Circular FPSO in Norway and reuse in UK as Equinor moves ahead with new projects

    17 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    Norwegian energy major Equinor has made progress with two of its offshore project developments located offshore Norway and the UK.

  • Wintershall chooses AGR for Barents Sea feasibility study

    2 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Oilfield services company AGR has been chosen by German oil company Wintershall to deliver a feasibility study in the Barents Sea. AGR said on Thursday that the award was given by Wintershall’s Norwegian entity, Wintershall Norge. Under the contract, the company’s Well Engineering team will evaluate well design solutions for the Barents Sea. The contract […]

  • Spirit Energy picks NHV for transfer services in East Irish Sea

    5 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Helicopter operator NHV Group has won a new long-term contract with Spirit Energy to provide passenger transfer services in support of their East Irish Sea operations.

  • Prosafe unit booked for UK North Sea work

    16 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    A UK client has chartered Prosafe’s Safe Boreas to provide gangway-connected operations to support a platform shutdown in the UK North Sea.

  • Germany: MEYER WERFT Celebrates 25 Years of Cruise Ship Construction

    4 May 2011

    In 1891 the first passengers to go on a cruise were Germans. It was the idea of the Hamburg ship owner Albert Ballin. At that time most of the passenger steamers were idling in the port of Hamburg during the winter. So Ballin decided to assign one of these ships to the Mediterranean on an […]

  • Goliat FPSO Leaves HHI, Heads to Norway

    13 February 2015

    Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced that Goliat FPSO, the world’s largest cylindrical FPSO ordered by Eni Norge, sailed away from its yard.  The 64,000 ton cylindrical floater, measuring 112 m in diameter and 75 m in height, is designed to store one million barrels of crude oil per day. The FPSO will be installed in […]

  • WorleyParsons Acquires Bergen Group Rosenberg (Norway)

    21 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    WorleyParsons has announced an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Bergen Group Rosenberg AS (“Rosenberg”) for a cash consideration of NOK 1,088m (including more than NOK 200m of acquired cash). Rosenberg is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bergen Group ASA, a listed Norwegian company. Completion of the acquisition is expected by the end of […]

  • Norway: GL Establishes Global Design Centre for Floating Structures

    28 August 2012

    GL Noble Denton has established a Global Design Centre for floating structures at its offices in Brevik, Norway. The move comes as part of a significant investment programme that has seen the independent technical advisor re-structure its Norwegian operations in line with growth plans for the region. GL Noble Denton’s Global Design Centre brings together […]

  • Top Stories of the Week (Feb 25 – March 2, 2013)

    10 March 2013

    India: Cochin Shipyard Delivers AHTS Vessel SCI URJA Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) today delivered a 120T Bollard pull Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS), “SCI URJA”, bearing Hull No. BY-80, to The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd, Mumbai (SCI). Video: MEYER WERFT Floats Out Norwegian BREAKAWAY (Germany) The 145,000 gt cruise ship Norwegian BREAKAWAY, whose […]

  • Shearwater in 4D seismic gig at Equinor’s Troll

    26 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Equinor has hired Shearwater GeoServices for a 4D seismic survey at the Troll unit in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The survey will be carried out this summer.

  • Two rival players get green light for merger plans

    15 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The Norwegian Competition Authority raises no objections to the business combination proposed by Maersk Drilling and Noble Corporation.

  • Deepsea Atlantic rig cleared for work on two North Sea fields

    6 March 2020
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for drilling operations in the North Sea using the Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig.

  • Neptune Energy’s Cara discovery wins innovation prize

    29 May 2018

    Neptune Energy has informed that its Cara discovery in the North Sea offshore Norway, last week in  Oslo won the Exploration Innovation Prize 2018 at Recent Discoveries Conference.

  • North Energy Takes Over Operatorship of Wintershall’s North Sea Blocks

    26 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian authorities have approved the transfer of 40 percent interests and operatorship in production licences 509S and 509BS from Wintershall Norge AS to North Energy. The licences contain oil prospects and are located in the North Sea, south of the Gullfaks area. A potential discovery could be tied back to existing nearby  infrastructure. Drill or drop decision is […]

  • Wellesley strikes out in North Sea well

    27 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Wellesley has concluded the drilling of a wildcat well north of the Gjøa field in the northern North Sea, but the well turned out to be dry.

  • Lundin to drill wildcat off Norway with Island Innovator

    24 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for the well 7220/11-1, in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. Well 7220/11-1 will be drilled from the semi-submersible drilling rig Island Innovator at position 72o 03` 26.84″ north and 20o 32´ 45.71″ east. The drilling programme for well 7220/11-1 relates to the drilling […]

  • Arkona Offshore Wind Farm UXO Disposal Complete

    5 December 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    E.ON informed that it has completed the disposal of the explosive ordnance at the Arkona offshore wind farm site in the German Baltic Sea. The construction site, with an area of 39 square kilometers halfway between the island of Rügen and the Danish island of Bornholm, is now completely free of remains from the time of […]

  • Ulstein Group Establishes JV Company in Netherland with IDEA Heavy Equipment

    2 May 2011

    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 […]