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  • Equinor earns regulatory sign-off for upcoming drilling ops with Transocean rig

    19 September 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has received the all-clear from the country’s authorities to use one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs for drilling operations at a field off the coast of Norway.

  • Norwegian Cruise Line and Repsol ink long-term renewable marine fuels deal

    21 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Cruise company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) and Spanish multi-energy player Repsol have established “an unprecedent long-term relationship within the cruise industry” with a landmark 8-year agreement covering supply of renewable marine fuels at the Port of Barcelona.

  • Aasen Shipping takes delivery of new hybrid methanol-ready self-discharger

    20 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Norwegian shipping company Aasen Shipping has taken delivery of a new hybrid methanol-ready self-discharging general cargo vessel, Aasvaer.

  • Equinor cleared to kick off drilling ops with Transocean’s rig next month

    1 September 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has obtained a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, which will be drilled using a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean, an offshore drilling contractor.

  • ‘Profitable’ discoveries on the cards: 20 firms keen on exploring Norway’s oil & gas potential

    4 September 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    As countries work on strengthening their energy security with more oil and gas, 20 companies have shown interest in production licenses offered as part of the award in pre-defined areas 2025 (APA 2025) licensing round related to further hydrocarbon exploration activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • Norway offers new blocks in Norwegian, Barents and North Sea

    3 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has announced today the APA 2014, comprising the predefined areas with blocks in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. Application Area The predefined areas (APA boxes) have been extended with more blocks since APA 2014. The new areas include six blocks in the Norwegian Sea […]

  • Norwegian self-adjusting mooring buoy set to ease solar-hydro integration

    7 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology, Vision

    Oslo-headquartered Fred. Olsen 1848 has unveiled its Tension Buoy concept, designed to maintain stable mooring tension for floating solar installations in reservoirs and hydropower dams with large water-level variations.  The solution addresses one of the main technical barriers to pairing floating solar with hydropower, maintaining consistent mooring tension as water levels rise and fall. According […]

  • RWE Dea Norge Receives Three New Licences on the Norwegian Shelf

    1 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      RWE Dea Norge has been awarded three promising licences in the recent APA 2010 licensing round by the Norwegian Ministery of Petroleum and Energy, of which one is in the North Sea and two are in the Norwegian Sea. This strengthens the company’s long-term commitment on the Norwegian Shelf. Licence PL 582, Blocks 6204/10 […]

  • Faroe Petroleum Wins New Licence in Norwegian Barents Sea

    13 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic Margin, Norway and the UK, announces the 22nd Norwegian Licence Round award of a new licence PL716 in the Barents Sea. The Dazzler prospect contained within PL716 (Faroe 20%) is located 90 kilometres to the north […]

  • Wintershall Dea grabs nine Norwegian Continental Shelf exploration licenses

    15 January 2020

    Independent natural gas and crude oil producer Wintershall Dea has secured interests in nine new exploration licenses in Norway, including three as an operator.

  • NPD Analyses Norwegian Shelf Seabed Minerals

    10 June 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has conducted a chemical analyses of sulphides and manganese crusts from the Norwegian shelf and revealed that the sulphides contain a high content of copper, zinc and cobalt. The sulphis contains mostly contain iron, but also have a relatively high content of copper (up to 14 per cent in some samples), […]

  • DEA aligns Norwegian offshore license with Dvalin development

    11 March 2019

    German oil company DEA has aligned PL 211 partners and equities with the Dvalin license offshore Norway.

  • Norway’s first spar platform good to go, regulator says

    19 March 2018

    Statoil has received consent from the PSA to use the Aasta Hansteen spar platform, subsea systems, and infield pipelines on the field in the Norwegian Sea.

  • OKEA Gets Draugen Nod

    14 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given OKEA consent to use the facilities on the Draugen field in the Norwegian Sea. In June 2018, OKEA acquired Norske Shell’s interest in Draugen and became the field’s new operator. The transaction was recently approved by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and Ministry of Finance concerning […]

  • Ulstein to Finance Construction of 20-Metre S&R Craft

    6 June 2013

    Ulstein Group announced that it will donate approximately NOK 20m to Norwegian Sea Rescue (Redningsselskapet) to fund 60 percent of the cost of a high-speed search and rescue (S&R) boat. The 20-metre S&R craft – to be delivered in 2015 – will be named ‘RS Idar Ulstein’, in memory of Ulstein’s long-time CEO and Chairman […]

  • Norway: Ulstein to Donate 60% Funds for S&R ‘RS Idar Ulstein’

    6 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Ulstein Group has announced yesterday that the company will donate approximately NOK 20m to Norwegian Sea Rescue (Redningsselskapet) to fund 60 percent of the cost of a high-speed search and rescue (S&R) boat. The 20-metre S&R craft – to be delivered in 2015 – will be named ‘RS Idar Ulstein’, in memory of Ulstein’s long-time […]

  • Gulf of Mexico as Compared with the Barents Sea and Lofoten, Norway

    15 September 2010

    It is highly unlikely that a potential blowout off Lofoten could have a comparable blowout rate as the blowout on the Macondo prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the conclusion of NPD´s comparison of petroleum-related conditions in the spill area in the Gulf of Mexico and in The Norwegian Sea, the waters off […]

  • Statoil Finds Oil in Norwegian Snilehorn Prospect

    11 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Statoil has together with partners in PL348/348B made an oil discovery in the Snilehorn prospect in the Norwegian Sea, approximately fifteen kilometres northeast of the Njord field. This is the third near-field discovery in the Norwegian Sea in three months. Exploration well 6407/8-6 and sidetrack 6407/8-6A, drilled by the Songa Trym drilling rig, have proven […]

  • Companies Show Great Interest in Barents Sea Licences, Norwegian Energy Minister Says

    15 April 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Government has decided to award 24 production licenses in the 21st licensing round. The awards in the 21st licensing round include 12 production licenses in the Norwegian Sea and 12 production licenses in the Barents Sea. “The 21st licensing round will lay a foundation for further exploration of our least explored areas in […]

  • Baker Hughes chemicals for Norwegian oil fields

    9 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Norway’s Statoil has awarded Baker Hughes an eight-year contract to design and supply production chemicals to the offshore Norne field and the deepwater Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. Work is anticipated to begin in July 2015, and the contract also includes an extension option of four years. “This award demonstrates our commitment to […]

  • NPD boosts Norwegian total petroleum resource base

    25 February 2016

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s estimate of total discovered and undiscovered petroleum resources on the Norwegian shelf has increased with 0.1 billion standard cubic metres of oil equivalents (Sm3 o.e.) from last year to about 14.2 billion Sm3 o.e. Forty seven per cent of these resources have been sold and delivered. It is expected that 7.6 […]

  • Norway Awards 24 Licenses in 22nd Licensing Round

    12 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian government has decided to offer 24 licenses in its 22 licensing round. The awards include 20 licenses in the Barents Sea and four in the Norwegian Sea. Out of the 36 companies which applied for the acreage in this round, 29 companies have been offered shares, while 14 companies are offered operatorship.  “I am very […]

  • Lundin Petroleum Secures Seven Exploration Licences in 2012 APA, Norway

    16 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Lundin Petroleum AB (“Lundin Petroleum”) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has been awarded seven exploration licence interests in the 2012 Norwegian Licensing Round (Awards in Predefined Areas, APA). The awarded licences include four licences in the North Sea, two in the Norwegian Sea as well as one licence in Barents Sea. […]

  • Norway: Statoil and Partners Submit Aasta Hansteen PDO

    9 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Statoil and the Aasta Hansteen partners have submitted the plan for development and operation (PDO) of the field to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Furthermore Statoil and the Polarled Development Project partners have submitted the plan for installation and operation (PIO). This represents a step forward in the development of the petroleum activities in […]

  • Statoil gains nod to use Odfjell rig for Mim well

    28 December 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea with the Deepsea Bergen drilling rig.  The well 6507/3-12 will be drilled in production license 159B, where Statoil is the operator, in block 6507/3, in the Norwegian Sea west of Sandnessjøen. The Norwegian […]