10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • PSA Norway Inspects Load Bearing Structures on Eldfisk Jacket

    4 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    On 10 and 11 May 2012, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of the engineering of load-bearing structures on Eldfisk 2/7-S’ steel jacket, located in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The objective of the audit activity was to verify that the engineering of load-bearing structures was in compliance with […]

  • Wintershall Amol Well First to Be Drilled (Norway)

    5 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Bridge Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company, has announced an update on the current exploration drilling campaign in the Wintershall-operated PL 457, covering wells targeting the Amol and the Asha East prospects. Further to the announcement on 14 August 2013, the Company now advises that the operator has changed the order of drilling, […]

  • Google Parent Cuts Offshore Wind Kite Project Loose

    19 February 2020
    Research & Development, Technology

    Google’s parent company Alphabet has decided that it will no longer invest in the energy kite developer Makani, according to Fort Felker, CEO of Makani. Alphabet bought Makani back in 2013. Since then, the concept technology advanced from a 20kW demonstrator kite to a utility-scale kite capable of generating 600kW, Felker said. In February 2019, […]

  • CIMC Raffles Cuts ‘North Dragon’ Steel (China)

    4 July 2013

    Chinese construction company Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Limited has begun construction of a semi-submersible offshore drilling rig, ordered by North Sea Rigs AS. The steel cutting ceremony for the rig took place at the company’s Yantai yard on Sunday, June 28. According to a press release issued by CIMC Raffles, the rig will be used for […]

  • Equinor drills dry appraisal well in North Sea

    9 December 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has concluded the drilling of an appraisal well on an oil and gas discovery near the Fram field in the North Sea offshore Norway, but came up dry.

  • Semi-sub Borgland Dolphin in double drill for Wintershall

    26 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted consent to Wintershall to drill two exploration wells, in the North Sea, using the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig.  The two wells, 35/8-6S and 35/8-6A, are located in Wintershall-operated production licence 248, offshore Norway. According to the safety agency, drilling is scheduled to begin in March 2016 and estimated to last […]

  • Reach Subsea Wins Contract with Calecore (Norway)

    14 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Reach Subsea ASA announced today the award of a contract from Calecore as suppliers under an existing agreement with a Norwegian Oil company. The contract is for the operation of the MPSV Bourbon Emerald on a day rate basis for around 34 days with operations starting in August 2013. The Reach work scope is ROV […]

  • GE Lands Statoil Subsea Deal

    19 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    GE Oil & Gas has signed a master service agreement with Statoil for new subsea projects. The global agreement forms the basis for potential new contracts for subsea equipment and services on new projects and field developments. The contract is valid globally until 2025. “We are pleased to have secured an agreement with Statoil that […]

  • EMGS delighted to work with Tullow again

    26 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a contract from Tullow Oil Norge AS for 3D EM data acquisition offshore Norway.

  • inApril Lands Seabed Seismic Systems Deal with Geo Energy Group

    30 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    inApril, the Norwegian offshore technology company, has struck a deal, potentially worth $25-30 million, for Venator, its node-based seabed seismic acquisition system. The company has signed the letter of intent (LOI) with the Kazakhstan company Geo Energy Group (GEG) to supply a Venator system, starting with a test project this autumn in the Caspian Sea. GEG […]

  • Clean bill of health for Faroe’s Oselvar and Trym fields

    13 April 2018

    The Faroe-operated Oselvar and Trym fields have received a clean bill of health from the PSA following an audit of pipelines and subsea facilities.

  • Nod for Equinor to use West Hercules rig on North Sea pilot hole

    16 January 2020
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the West Hercules drilling rig.

  • Statoil gets green light for Saturn well

    15 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7227/10-1, in the production licence 230, in the Barents Sea.  The 7227/10-1 wildcat well will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig. The name of the prospect is “Saturn”. Oil company Statoil, which is actively seeking for a permanent CEO […]

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    26 January 2014

    Most Popular News of the Week, Jan 20 – 26, 2013

  • Statoil: Offshore upgrades to unlock 180 million barrels of oil

    14 May 2014

    The upgrading of the Oseberg B drilling facilities in the Norwegian North Sea has been completed, and drilling from the new plant starts in June, Norwegian oil company Statoil today announced. Statoil is upgrading the drilling facilities on several installations in order to increase the fields’ value creation and productive life. Efforts to allow more […]

  • VIDEO: FPSO Petrojarl Knarr sails away

    10 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    As reported last week, Teekay’s Petrojarl Knarr floating, production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) left the Aibel yard in Haugesund, Norway. Teekay Corporation has published a video of Petrojarl Knarr’s sailaway.  The FPSO Petrojarl Knarr last week received an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), meaning that the unit is approved for work on the Norwegian Continental […]

  • New North Sea gig for Floatel unit

    1 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Floatel International has been awarded a new deal for one of its units, which will work in the North Sea, offshore Norway.

  • PSA: Fire on Petrojarl Knarr FPSO caused by design errors and faulty operation

    17 November 2015

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has completed its investigation of a fire on Petrojarl Knarr FPSO, located offshore Norway, during March 24, 2015. The safety watchdog has identified design errors and faulty operations of the HVAC system as a direct cause of the fire.  Petrojarl Knarr is a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) […]

  • Statoil to install ‘world’s first wet gas compressor’ (Gallery)

    19 March 2015
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has informed that the world’s first subsea wet gas compression system is ready to be installed on the seabed and tied back to the Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea to provide another 22 million barrels of oil equivalent from the Gullfaks South Brent reservoir.  “I’m very proud of this project. Subsea compression […]

  • Teekay secures funds for LNG-fueled shuttle tankers

    5 April 2019
    Vessels

    Teekay Offshore Partners said that it has secured a new $414 million long-term debt facility to finance four LNG-fueled Suezmax DP2 shuttle tanker newbuildings.

  • VIDEO: Edda Ferd PSV Launched in Spain

    19 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    On Wednesday, 17th October 2012, at high tide, the Edda Ferd vessel built for the Norwegian shipowner Østensjø Rederi was launched at Astilleros Gondan shipyard in Spain, Edda Ferd is a 92,60 m long  platform supply vessel of Skipsteknisk design. It can accommodate 40 people and has a deck area of 1.000 m2. It is the third […]

  • Noreco: Huntigton Development Progressing Well (UK)

    16 January 2013

    Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco), an oil firm with a stake in E.ON Ruhrgas UK E&P-operated Huntington field, reports that the development of the field is progressing well. Noreco has reported that all five risers have now been connected to the floating production platform Voyageur Spirit. The remaining activities towards first oil consist of subsea […]

  • Norway: BP Norge Secures Accommodation Rigs for Valhall Offshore Facility

    17 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    BP Norge AS has exercised two three-month options for the continued use of the MSV Regalia and thereafter Safe Scandinavia (image) at the Valhall offshore facility in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The first three months commencing in July 2011 using the MSV Regalia will be in direct continuation of the existing firm […]

  • ABB Powers Martin Linge Field via World’s Longest Subsea AC Link

    6 December 2012
    Equipment

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a contract worth $ 170 million from Subsea 7, to build a power link between a new oil and gas field being developed by Total E&P Norge AS in the North Sea and the Norwegian power grid. The Martin Linge (formerly known as Hild) field […]

  • Norway: ABB Wins $170 Mln Contract for Martin Linge Subsea Power Link

    6 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a contract worth $ 170 million from Subsea 7, to build a power link between a new oil and gas field being developed by Total E&P Norge AS in the North Sea and the Norwegian power grid. The Martin Linge (formerly known as Hild) field […]