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  • ‘Songa Trym’ to plug Oseberg field well for Statoil

    22 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Songa Trym for permanent well plugging on the Oseberg field, in the North Sea.  Statoil is the operator on the Oseberg field, located in blocks 30/6 and 30/9 in the northern part of the North Sea. The 30/6-B-51 AH well is a subsea […]

  • Wintershall gets go-ahead for North Sea wildcat

    9 August 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea offshore Norway. NPD said on Monday that the 35/11-20 B well will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig following the completion of drilling of wildcat well 35/11-20 A for Wintershall Norge in production license […]

  • Norway: Statoil Strikes Light Oil at Skinfaks South Well

    4 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Norway’s oil titan Statoil has completed drilling of the Skinfaks South well in the North Sea and the estimated volume is between 1.9 and 6.9 million barrels of oil equivalents. This is the fourth infrastructure-near discovery in the Gullfaks area in a 10 month period.  Light oil has been confirmed in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks […]

  • Troms Offshore’s New PSV Troms Sirius Christened (Norway)

    7 June 2012

    Troms Offshore Supply, after receiving its last newbuild vessel on 29th of May from the STX Søviknes shipyard, held the naming ceremony of MV Troms Sirius. Troms Sirius is a Clean Design diesel electric PSV (Platform Supply Vessel) with a deck area of 1.020 m2 and consequently one of the largest PSV ships operating in […]

  • SolarDuck’s Tokyo Bay floating solar plant stands strong in the face of severe weather

    26 August 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Safety, Technology

    Dutch-Norwegian firm SolarDuck unveiled that the Teal offshore photovoltaic (OFPV) demonstration plant in Tokyo Bay, Japan, had endured its first severe weather test. Typhoon Ampil passed near Tokyo on Friday, August 16, bringing high winds and heavy rain. According to SolarDuck, this demonstrates the resilience of the technology in severe weather. SolarDuck said its design […]

  • Magseis in tech deal with Shell. Bags new seismic contract

    13 November 2015

    Norwegian seabed seismic company Magseis has entered into an agreement with Shell for the further joint development of a system to deploy Magseis’ MASS technology in ultra-deep water with great precision. According to Magseis, the agreement regulates the further work leading up to a full-scale pilot test which is planned for completion early Q1 2016 and […]

  • Neptune Energy strikes pay at Dugong well

    3 July 2020
    Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Oil and gas exploration firm Neptune Energy has hit hydrocarbons at the Dugong well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • Wood Group Mustang Recruiting for North Sea Engineering Projects

    4 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wood Group Mustang has secured multiple contracts in the North Sea over the past 12 months, worth more than $130 million, and is currently recruiting over 100 personnel in its Woking office. As part of the company’s framework contract with Statoil, awarded in 2011, to deliver multi-discipline engineering for their onshore and offshore facilities worldwide, […]

  • Wellesley drills duster in North Sea

    25 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Wellesley Petroleum has drilled a dry well near the Grosbeak oil and gas discovery in the North Sea.

  • Norway: Voith to Provide Two VSPs for ISV ‘Siem Moxie’

    27 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    The “Siem Moxie”, an infield support vessel (ISV), will be put into operation in spring 2014. She is the first work boat with the Ulstein-designed X-BOW to be fitted with two Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP). X-BOW vessels are characterised by the absence of a bulbous bow. Their bow slopes backwards above the water line which […]

  • Norway: Siem Moxie to Feature Ulstein-Designed X-BOW and Two VSPs

    27 March 2013

    The “Siem Moxie”, an infield support vessel (ISV), will be put into operation in spring 2014. She is the first work boat with the Ulstein-designed X-BOW to be fitted with two Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP). X-BOW vessels are characterised by the absence of a bulbous bow. Their bow slopes backwards above the water line which […]

  • Norway: Centrica Buys More into Statfjord

    30 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Centrica plc, the parent company of British Gas, has reached an agreement with ConocoPhillips to acquire its non-operated interests in the gas and oil producing Statfjord field and associated satellites for a total cash consideration of $223 million (£142 million), including $103 million (£66 million) attributable to historic tax allowances. The fields, which are located […]

  • Nova topside module ready for transport and installation in North Sea

    8 April 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Heavy lifting, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Neptune Energy has reported that the load out of the 740-tonne topside module for the Nova brownfield project in the Norwegian North Sea has been completed ahead of the installation offshore with the world’s largest semi-sub crane vessel. 

  • Rotech Subsea Works on UK’s Largest Windfarm

    13 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    A global subsea engineering firm is working on a major North Sea contract worth in excess of £2million. Rotech Subsea, which is headquartered in Aberdeen and owned by Norwegian firm Reef Subsea, is involved in a subsea excavation project with marine construction firm Red7Marine on what will be the UK’s largest operating wind farm. The […]

  • Magseis Hikes Revenues

    24 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Norwegian seabed seismic services player, Magseis, has bounced back in black at the end of the fourth quarter 2016 with its quarterly revenues at all-time high. The Oslo-listed company has seen its revenues up to USD 20 million from USD 5.5 million same time last year. The Q4 2016 revenues is a result of the Saudi Aramco Red […]

  • Top News of The Week August 12 -17, 2013

    18 August 2013

    ‘Ramco Crusader’ OSV Sinks Off Brazil Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras has informed that the Ramco Crusader offshore support vessel sank Monday night, offshore Brazil. Huntington Field Shut Amid FPSO Issues. All Noreco’s Fields Now Closed Norwegian oil company Noreco has announcer that E.ON, the operator on the Huntington field in the UK North Sea, […]

  • Norway: Det norske Finds Indications of Gas in the Stirby Deep Prospect

    29 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Det norske oljeselskap ASA has as operator in PL 341, found indications of gas in the Stirby Deep prospect in the Viking Graben in the North Sea, 75 km south of Sleipner. The well data indicates gas/gas condensate under high pressure in a 70 meters thick sandstone with low porosity at 4870 meters below seabed. […]

  • Energy transition needs to pick up the pace to counter uncertainty over net zero targets

    6 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Equinor has highlighted that the speed and scale of the energy transition have to increase to reach the 1.5-degree ambition by 2050.

  • DONG Energy Awarded Two Operatorships in Norway

    23 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    DONG Energy’s Norwegian oil and gas business reports that they have been awarded two new licenses as operator in the 2013 Award in Predefined Areas (APA) in Norway. “We are very excited about the two licenses that we have been awarded. The licenses are situated in areas in which we are already active – in the […]

  • Rotech Subsea Works On UK’s Largest Windfarm (UK)

    13 January 2012

    A global subsea engineering firm is working on a major North Sea contract worth in excess of £2million. Rotech Subsea, which is headquartered in Aberdeen and owned by Norwegian firm Reef Subsea, is involved in a subsea excavation project with marine construction firm Red7Marine on what will be the UK’s largest operating wind farm. The […]

  • WATCH: Aker BP installs jacket for new Hod B platform

    7 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Following a sail away from a yard in Verdal, a jacket for the Aker BP-operated Hod B platform has been installed in the North Sea off Norway.

  • National Grid and Statnett to Develop Interconnector Between Norway and UK

    16 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    National Grid and Statnett confirm plans for further development of the world’s longest subsea interconnector. British energy company National Grid and Statnett, the Norwegian transmission system operator (TSO), have signed a co-operation agreement to continue work on the interconnector to link the two countries. The NSN interconnector will have a capacity of 1400 MW and […]

  • Highlights of the Week

    17 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (December 10 – December 17). Aker BP has submitted the plans for development and operations (PDOs) for the Valhall Flank West, Ærfugl (formerly Snadd) and Skogul (formerly Storklakken) fields to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. CEO […]

  • Edvard Grieg Job for Rosenberg WorleyParsons

    17 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Lundin Norway and its licence partners in PL338 are awarding Stavanger-based Rosenberg WorleyParsons contract for modification work on the Edvard Grieg platform in the North Sea. The contract should provide work for 150 people. The objective of the modification is to prepare the platform to receive and process oil and gas from nearby fields. Luno […]

  • New field start-ups bump petroleum sector emissions in Norway

    30 May 2016

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) reported on Monday that the petroleum activities in 2015 generated 13.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, an increase of 400,000 tonnes (3 per cent) compared with the previous year.  NPD said this was mostly due to start-up difficulties on the Knarr field and start-up of the Valemon and Edvard Grieg fields, which […]