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  • Skarv Shipping to build four multi-fuel shortsea bulkers

    9 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Innovation, Transition, Vessels

    Grieg Edge, the innovation hub of Norwegian shipping group Grieg Star, has teamed up with compatriot Peak Group AS to establish a joint venture named Skarv Shipping Solutions. The JV founders said that the company aims to help ship and cargo owners reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases and reach their climate goals. Ships transport […]

  • COSL Innovator semi-sub to drill Barryroe wells (Ireland)

    1 February 2019
    Exploration & Production

    COSL Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling rig COSL Innovator has been nominated as the rig to drill at the Barryroe oil accumulation located in the North Celtic Sea offshore Ireland. Providence Resources, the Ireland-based company whose subsidiary Exola operates the license containing the Barryroe prospect said on Wednesday:”…the Barryroe Partners can now confirm that COSL have nominated […]

  • PHOTO: Ivar Aasen platform installed offshore Norway

    19 July 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Det norske has informed that the Ivar Aasen platform was lifted and installed in the North Sea, offshore Norway, on Monday, July 18, 2016.  The platform deck arrived in Norway earlier in July after a long journey from Singapore. The Norwegian oil company informed through its social media channels on Tuesday that module M00 was lifted […]

  • Det norske takes over four North Sea fields

    13 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has given Det norske oljeselskap ASA consent to use the existing facilities on the Alvheim, Vilje and Volund fields, and the new Bøyla field, in the North Sea. The background to this consent is Det norske‘s acquisition of Marathon Oil Norge AS and the company’s production licence assets on the […]

  • Norway: NPD Starts Seismic Acquisition in Barents Sea

    8 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

       Norwegian Petroleum Directorate started acquisition of seismic data in Norway’s new maritime zone in the Barents Sea. PGS will be conducting the acquisition on behalf of the NPD using the vessel R.V. Harrier Explorer. This is the first time this area will be systematically mapped. The seismic acquisition activity will continue until the first […]

  • Approval granted for Dunlin Alpha topsides decom plan

    3 May 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Fairfield has received an approval of its decommissioning program for the Dunlin Alpha topsides, located in the UK North Sea, from the UK authorities.  The Dunlin Alpha installation served as the production facility for the Greater Dunlin Area and is located in UK Continental Shelf Block 211/23a, approximately 137 km north east of Shetland and […]

  • Equinor to extend lifetime of Oseberg’s smallest platform

    25 May 2018

    Norway’s Equinor has been granted consent for continued use of the Oseberg Øst platform located in the North Sea.

  • Dolphin in Multi-Client survey in North Sea

    3 August 2015

    Dolphin Geophysical is acquiring 4192km² of new Multi-Client 3D SHarp Broadband seismic in the northernmost region of the Norwegian North Sea. According to the company, the survey targets both open and newly awarded APA acreage. Furthermore, acquisition progress on Friday stood at 40%. The company said that the 2011-built 3D vessel Polar Duchess is utilising 12 Streamers […]

  • Siem Offshore sheds platform supply vessel trio

    28 January 2019

    Norwegian offshore and subsea shipping company Siem Offshore has sold three platform supply vessels (PSVs).

  • Norwegian duo teams up on Equinor’s CO2-cutting LNG project

    2 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Asset integrity management company Axess Group has won an enterprise of competence (EoC) contract with Norway’s energy services company Aibel for work on a project operated by the compatriot energy giant Equinor.

  • Statoil picks up Barents Sea wildcat permit

    7 April 2017
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted oil major Statoil a drilling permit for a wildcat well 7121/8-1 southeast of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The NPD said that the drilling program for wellbore 7121/8-1 relates to the drilling of a well in production license 849, in a prospect named Blåmann. Statoil is […]

  • Nexen charters ERRV ‘Ocean Tay’ for Golden Eagle field

    11 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen-based standby vessel operator Atlantic Offshore Rescue has commissioned a £6 million vessel for a long-term charter with Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd (Nexen). Thirty new jobs have been created as a result of the new vessel, Ocean Tay, a Class A Emergency Response and Rescue Vessel (ERRV), which will provide emergency vessel cover for Nexen’s […]

  • Supply boat hits Oseberg East platform

    10 July 2014

    A supply boat crashed this morning into the Statoil-operated Oseberg East platform in the North Sea, offshore Norway.

  • Viking Neptun to Service Merkur During Winter

    7 September 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Eidesvik Offshore has secured a contract for its vessel Viking Neptun to support work on the Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Statoil Hires Gas4Sea for LNG Bunkering in Rotterdam

    10 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian oil major Statoil has selected Gas4Sea partners to be its liquefied natural gas (LNG) marine fuel supplier in the Dutch port of Rotterdam for four crude shuttle tankers. The four planned dual fuel vessels are scheduled to come into service in early 2020. They will be operated by Statoil in Northern European seas. Under the contract […]

  • Lundin Begins Exploration Well 33/2-1 Drilling in PL555, Norway

    9 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) has started drilling of exploration well 33/2-1 in PL555. The well will investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the Storm Prospect in PL555, which is located 200 km west northwest of Florø on the Norwegian west coast and approximately 65 km northwest of the Snorre Field. The main objective of well […]

  • PSA Investigates Oil Spill at Statfjord

    12 October 2015
    Research & Development

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has decided to conduct an investigation into an oil spill which occurred on the Statfjord field on Thursday October 08. A report was received at 08.30 on this day that oil had been observed on the sea close to the OLS B loading buoy on the field, PSA said. The […]

  • Petrojarl Varg FPSO gains three more years with Talisman

    6 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Teekay Offshore has received a contract extension for the Petrojarl Varg floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.  In June 2015, the charterer of the Petrojarl Varg FPSO, Talisman Energy Norge AS, exercised an option to extend the contract period of the vessel for an additional three years through June 30, 2019. According to Teekay, the […]

  • Höegh Autoliners Sells 16th PCTC for Recycling

    16 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian RoRo shipping company Höegh Autoliners sold its 1988-built Pure Car and Truck Carrier MV Morning Mercator for recycling on November 15. The company said that the vessel will be recycled at China’s shipbreaking yard Jiang Men City Zhong Xin Shipbreaking & Steel Co., as part of Höegh Autoliners’ green recycling policy, under supervision by Grieg Green. “This […]

  • Statoil hires Ocean Installer for Vigdis field work

    16 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has exercised an option with Ocean Installer for flexible jumper replacement at the Vigdis field. The option falls under an amendment to the previously awarded SLMP Marine Installation contract. The SLMP amendment was signed in December 2015 and covered riser replacement operations at the Troll C field. The option now exercised comprises the replacement […]

  • Stena Drilling stacks rig at Hanøytangen yard

    17 November 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling company Stena Drilling has decided to warm stack its semi-submersible drilling rig Stena Don in Norway. The driller has selected Semco Maritime’s facilities at Hanøytangen yard in Bergen, where the rig will be stacked, ready for future work. Stena Don arrived at the yard on Wednesday, November 16,  and has previously been on a contract […]

  • Skangas names new CEO

    19 April 2017

    Skangas said it has named Kimmo Rahkamo as the company’s new CEO, effective May 15.

  • Farstad gains restructuring plan approval

    3 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Offshore service vessel provider Farstad Shipping on Friday gained support for its financial restructuring plan.  To remind, on February 6, 2017, Farstad entered into an agreement for a fully-funded financial restructuring subsequent to which the shipping company agreed to combine with Solstad Offshore and Deep Sea Supply to form a new OSV player with a fleet […]

  • Statoil ships two Hammerfest LNG cargoes

    5 July 2016
    Vessels

    Statoil’s Hammerfest liquefaction and export facility in Norway shipped one cargo of the chilled fuel each to the Netherlands and Spain. The 147,980-cbm Arctic Princess departed from the export facility on Melkøya island on Monday and is set to deliver its cargo to Dutch Gate LNG terminal in the Port of Rotterdam on July 8, according to […]

  • Union working to avoid downsizing of 200 rig workers

    14 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation

    A Norwegian union is working to avoid the downsizing of 200 workers of the West Mira rig following a recent contract termination.