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  • Wintershall gets nod for Orion drilling

    11 May 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Wintershall its approval to drill an exploratory well with the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig offshore Florø, Norway. Wintershall is the operator for production licence 248 in the North Sea where the well will be drilled. The exploration prospect is named Orion and bears the designation 35/11-19S. It is located around […]

  • Safety probe finds improvement points on Heimdal

    22 July 2016

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has identified several improvement points during an audit of Statoil and Gassco. No non-conformities were found. PSA said on Thursday that the audit was conducted on June 9 and 10 and that the revealed improvement points were related to the condition of the main support structures […]

  • AVEVA Joins Offshoreenergy.dk (Denmark)

    7 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    AVEVA announced today that it has joined the Esbjerg-based network Offshoreenergy.dk. The network focuses on building collaboration across the Danish oil & gas, offshore and wind energy industries. “The majority of the Danish offshore activity is in the Norwegian and British areas of the North Sea, where AVEVA has a dominant position for engineering design […]

  • Zamakona Yards: FSV Hull Launched

    3 February 2014

    The Zamakona Yards on Friday launched the “Ocean Marilin” vessel hull in its yard in Pasajes in Northern Spain. The vessel is the second which Zamakona Yards has launched of the three vessels contracted with the Norwegian shipping company, Atlantic Offshore A.S. The principal mission of the vessel will be to provide immediate attention in […]

  • Statoil to Use Songa Trym for Permanent Well Plugging on Glitne Field

    26 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has received consent to use the Songa Trym mobile drilling facility for permanent well plugging on the Glitne field. The Glitne oil field lies in blocks 15/5 and 15/6 in the Sleipner area of the Norwegian North Sea, about 40 kilometres north-west of Statoil’s Sleipner East development. Made in 1995, the Glitne find was […]

  • Ulstein Cuts First Steel for Merkur SOV

    10 September 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder Ulstein has cut the first steel for a Service Operations Vessel (SOV) ordered by Bernhard Schulte. The SOV yard number 315 is of the SX195 design from Ulstein, and is destined to operate for GE Renewable Energy on the Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The vessel […]

  • Atlantic Offshore to Provide Support for Major Oil Companies in UK North Sea

    28 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen-based standby vessel operator Atlantic Offshore Rescue has secured contracts in the last few weeks with major oil companies worth a combined £12million. The vessels will provide support in the UK North Sea for Shell, Nexen, Hess and Talisman Energy (UK) Limited. Atlantic Offshore has been in operation since 1995 and manages a fleet of […]

  • Statoil drills duster near Gina Krog field

    4 January 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Norway’s Statoil has completed the drilling of wildcat well 15/6-14 S near the Gina Krog field in the North Sea. The well is dry.  The well is located in production license 029 C where Statoil is the operator. It was drilled on behalf of the Gina Krog Unit in production license 029 C just north of the Gina Krog field […]

  • Statoil Finds Oil Near Grane Field (Norway)

    28 May 2013

    Statoil, together with partners in the Grane Unit, has made a new oil discovery in the vicinity of the Grane field in the North Sea. Statoil and its partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations in exploration well 25/11-27 in the Grane Unit. Drilled by the rig Songa Trym the well proved an oil […]

  • Maersk Drilling secures more rig work with Total

    19 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore driller Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract extension for the jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid by Total in Norway. The rig has been on contract for Total on the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea since 2014 and this contract has now been extended for another firm 196 days […]

  • Equinor to keep PGS busy this summer

    27 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norway’s PGS has leveraged its multi-year frame agreement with compatriot oil and gas giant Equinor to secure contracts for the 2022 summer season. PGS will be carrying out 4D GeoStreamer monitoring surveys over the Visund field in the North Sea and the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The company was also recently awarded a […]

  • AET Names 2nd SHI-Built DP2 Shuttle Tanker

    6 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Petroleum tanker owner and operator AET has named its newest vessel, a 120,000 DWT DP2 shuttle tanker, Eagle Bergen, at a ceremony held in Stavanger, Norway. Eagle Bergen is the second of two vessels built by Samsung Heavy Industries to the standards required to operate on the Norwegian continental shelf. She is fixed on a long-term charter […]

  • AET Names 2nd SHI-Built DP2 Shuttle Tanker

    6 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Petroleum tanker owner and operator AET has named its newest vessel, a 120,000 DWT DP2 shuttle tanker, Eagle Bergen, at a ceremony held in Stavanger, Norway. Eagle Bergen is the second of two vessels built by Samsung Heavy Industries to the standards required to operate on the Norwegian continental shelf. She is fixed on a long-term charter […]

  • Norway: Reef Subsea Wins Ormen Lange Seabed Dredging Gig from Shell

    23 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Reef Subsea AS announced today that Scanmudring – one of its Norwegian subsidiaries – have been awarded by A/S Norske Shell a seabed dredging contract on Ormen Lange Mid-North field development. The task will be performed by the newly-built Scanmachine 4, the new generation of the highly experienced tool carrier developed and operated by Scanmudring. […]

  • UK’s Most Powerful ERRV Commissioned

    16 May 2013

    Aberdeen-based standby vessel operator Atlantic Offshore Rescue has commissioned what will be the UK’s most powerful emergency response and rescue vessel (ERRV). The Ocean Troll – which recently completed a long term charter with Statoil – has undergone a £2million conversion and overhaul at MMS Ship Repair in Hull to become a UK Class A ERRV […]

  • New JV sets up engineering and asset integrity management firm in Guyana

    23 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology

    Norway’s asset integrity management company Axess Group and Guyana Logistics and Support Services (GLASS) have established a joint venture (JV) to launch an engineering and asset integrity management (AIM) firm in Guyana. Axess has been delivering services including design, inspection, maintenance, certification, modification, engineering, and installation of equipment for both offshore and onshore installations, since […]

  • Songa Offshore swings to loss

    9 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Songa Offshore’s revenues dropped due to lack of contribution from two stacked rigs. 

  • Yara Clean Ammonia appoints new CEO to spearhead ‘rapidly growing’ business

    3 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy

    Oslo-headquartered Yara Clean Ammonia has appointed Hans Olav Raen as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective May 1, 2024.

  • Statoil dishes out new drilling contracts worth over $1.5 billion

    3 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has awarded three drilling contracts for drilling, completion, intervention services, plugging, maintenance and modifications on 18 of its fixed platforms. 

  • Repsol gets consent to extend North Sea field life

    26 June 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Repsol has been granted consent by the Norwegian offshore safety authority for the life extension of the Rev field, which is located offshore Norway.

  • Global Marine Completes Two Projects for Tampnet

    23 August 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Global Marine, a part of the Global Marine Group, has completed two fibre optic cable installations, bringing connectivity to two UK North Sea and two Norwegian sector oil and gas platforms. The projects, awarded to Global Marine by Tampnet, are designed to further enhance inter oil-field communication networks in the North Sea. Spanning a period of just […]

  • Statoil: Mariner jacket heading to North Sea

    11 August 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    The steel jacket for the Statoil-operated Mariner A platform on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) left the Spanish Dragados yard yesterday, August 10, and is now on its way to the North Sea. According to Statoil, construction of the large platform sub-structure started in October 2013 and was completed in May this year, on time […]

  • DeepOcean to remove subsea facilities from Varg field

    21 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    DeepOcean has been awarded a contract for provision of engineering, procurement, removal and disposal (EPRD) of Varg subsea facilities, offshore Norway, by Repsol.  Varg field is located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Repsol, the operator of the field with 65% interest, recently applied to authorities to plug eight wells and shut down the Varg […]

  • Wintershall Dea completes Nova top holes

    11 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Oi and gas company Wintershall Dea has completed the top hole drilling campaign on the Nova field located in the North Sea offshore Norway. Wintershall Dea received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for production drilling and completion on the Nova field using the West Mira drilling rig in […]

  • Spirit Energy gets nod to use Songa rig for Tethys well

    26 January 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given its consent to Spirit Energy to drill an exploration well in the North Sea using the Songa Enabler drilling rig.