10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Statoil to use Songa Cat D rig for Troll production well

    8 May 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil major Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Songa Encourage rig for drilling and completing a production well on the Troll field in the North Sea. The Troll field is around 65 kilometers west of Kollsnes in Hordaland county. It has been developed using three integrated process […]

  • West Venture semi-sub in PSA probe

    14 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    From 29 September to 2 October 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of Statoil within the domains of emergency preparedness, drilling and well technology on the West Venture semi-submersible drilling rig. West Venture is operated by North Atlantic Drilling (NAD) and works for Statoil on the Troll field, located in the […]

  • Polarcus opens Stavanger office

    29 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Polarcus, the UAE-based owner of high-end seismic survey vessels, has opened its first office in Norway to better service and support the Company’s rapidly expanding operations across Norway.

  • Lundin adds another well to COSL Drilling’s rig contract

    29 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Lundin has exercised its first option for the COSL Drilling-owned drilling rig COSLInnovator. The rig will be used to drill wells offshore Norway. 

  • Repsol prolongs vessel’s gig offshore Norway

    22 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Golden Energy Offshore Services has secured a contract extension for one of its platform supply vessels (PSVs) with Repsol Norge.

  • Aker Solutions, Ocean Installer load Liuhua umbilicals

    28 April 2020
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Aker Solutions and Ocean Installer have completed umbilical loadout for CNOOC Liuhua project ten days ahead of schedule. Six umbilicals totaling 115 kilometers have been loaded onto the CSV Connector from Aker Solutions’ facility in Mobile, US. Aker Solutions won orders to deliver dynamic and static power umbilicals for the Liuhua 16-2, 20-2 and 21-2 […]

  • Cairn hits dust in UK North Sea well

    15 November 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Cairn Energy has failed to find commercial hydrocarbons in its Ekland well in the UK North Sea and has decided to farm out its Chimera prospect, also located in the UK North Sea. 

  • ‘Maersk Intrepid’ receives AoC

    20 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Maersk Drilling’s jack-up drilling rig, Maersk Intrepid, has received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC).

  • Equinor makes largest NCS discovery so far this year

    24 March 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has made the biggest discovery so far this year on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) in a prospect near the Fram field in the North Sea.

  • Site surveys to begin for Flotation Energy’s two offshore wind projects

    13 July 2023
    Business Developments & Projects

    Site investigations are about to start at two locations in Scotland and the UK where Flotation Energy and its project partners plan to build the 480 MW Morecambe and the 1.4 GW Cenos offshore wind farms. At the Morecambe site, located about 30 kilometres from the Lancashire coast, a deep-sea geotechnical survey is scheduled to […]

  • Norway’s energy minister pays a visit to Engie’s Gjoa platform

    4 August 2017

    Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje Søviknes, on Thursday visited Engie-operated Gjøa offshore platform – Norway’s fifth largest producing platform, according to Engie.  According to the company’s statement on the same day, it was the first time the Minister visited the Gjøa platform, located just outside the coast of Florø, in the North Sea […]

  • BG Norge bites dust near Knarr field

    17 April 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    BG Norge AS, operator of production licence 373 S, is completing drilling of exploration well 34/3-5, located approximately five km southeast of the Knarr Field in the Northern North Sea, around 120 km West of Florø. The well is dry.  The objective of well 34/3-5 was to prove petroleum in Early Jurassic reservoir rocks (Cook […]

  • Statoil to abandon two wildcats off Norway empty-handed

    13 April 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Statoil is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat wells 30/11-11 S and 30/11-11 A, offshore Norway. One well is dry, the other proved to be a minor oil discovery, and both will be permanently plugged and abandoned. Statoil is the operator of production licence 035/272, Krafla, located in the Norwegian sector of the North […]

  • Statoil Ahead of Schedule and Below Budget with Gullfaks Template

    13 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted the licensees in Gullfaks (production licence 050) consent to start-up the facilities on the Rutil deposit on Gullfaks South, and to start producing. Rutil is a gas-filled structure on Statoil-operated Gullfaks South, located in the Tampen area in the North Sea. Rutil will be developed with a standard […]

  • Equinor gearing up to drill North Sea prospect with Transocean rig

    14 August 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor has secured a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for an exploration well in the North Sea off Norway.

  • Neptune’s output from North Sea hub swells thanks to tie-backs

    26 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has increased production from its operated Gjøa platform in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • Petrojarl Knarr leaves Aibel yard

    5 November 2014
    Equipment

    Teekay’s Petrojarl Knarr floating, production, storage and offloading vessel has left the Aibel yard in Haugesund and is now on its way to the Knarr field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The newbuild vessel, built by Samsung in South Korea, had arrived in Haugesund in September where it underwent final preparations. The […]

  • Norway: Safe Scandinavia Stays at Valhall Until April 1

    21 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    On October 26, 2011 BP Norge AS exercised an amended 45-day option for the continued use of the Safe Scandinavia at the Valhall offshore facility in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The value of the exercised option was around USD 10.9 million.  In addition, Prosafe granted two additional 2 week options commencing March […]

  • Huntington field back online

    13 May 2014

    Norwegian oil company Noreco has announced that production from the Huntington field in the UK North Sea resumed on May 11, 2014. Production has been interrupted since 12 April, initially for replacement of couplings in the inert gas system on the floating production and storage vessel Voyageur Spirit, and then again from 26 April due to […]

  • NPD Approves Start-Up of Subsea Facility on Balder

    11 July 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ExxonMobil consent to start-up a subsea facility for production well 25/11-E-29 AH on the Balder field. Recently ExxonMobil received an approval from Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use E-29-AH subsea well, on the Balder field. The Balder field is located in block 25/11 in the North Sea, around 190 […]

  • BP Extends Operating Life of Ula Oil Export Pipeline

    26 April 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    BP has received consent to extend the operating life of the Ula oil export pipeline. BP Norge (BP) is the operator of the Ula field, located in the southern North Sea. It is located in about 70 meters of water, and consists of three conventional steel facilities. The oil from Ula is transported to Teesside in England […]

  • PSA Displeased with Ekofisk Helipad

    13 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), with assistance from the Civil Aviation Authority, carried out an audit of Ekofisk 2/4-L facility on 4 – 5 April 2013. The objective of the audit was to verify that Ekofisk 2/4-L , located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, was built in accordance with regulatory requirements […]

  • Reach Subsea, Calecore Work Together On Board ‘Bourbon Emerald’

    14 August 2013

    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 operations while Calecore is providing geophysical and […]

  • Statoil Orders Subsea Equipment from FMC Technologies (Norway)

    27 December 2012

    FMC Technologies, Inc.  has signed an agreement with Statoil  for the supply of additional subsea equipment for the Snorre field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The order has an estimated value of $33 million in revenue. Under the terms of the agreement, FMC Technologies will provide 10 production risers and tieback connectors. […]

  • Steel Cutting Ceremony Held for Axis’ Accommodation Unit (China)

    1 March 2013

    Axis Offshore celebrated steel cutting according to the construction schedule with Cosco on 28th February 2013 for its first semi-submersible accommodation unit. The Axis Offshore site team manager, Magnus Olsson, congratulated the yard project manager, Wang Jianqiang, on the planned progress made by Cosco. The new accommodation vessel, worth over $200 million, is ordered by […]