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  • Viridis wins AiP for its ammonia-powered short-sea bulk vessel

    20 March 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    Classification society Bureau Veritas has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Viridis Bulk Carriers, a joint venture of Norwegian shipping consultancy Amon Maritime and compatriot shipowners Navigare Shipping & Logistics and AS Mosvolds Rederia, for its ammonia-powered short-sea bulk vessel. Viridis pointed out that the approval is an important step towards being able to […]

  • Norway: Statoil, Partners Reach Visund North Investment Decision

    5 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Visund North investment decision means that the fast-track developments around the Visund field in the North Sea are a step nearer completion.  It was decided in autumn 2010 to fast track the development of Visund North with production start-up scheduled for autumn 2013. The partners have now reached an investment decision worth NOK 3.1 […]

  • Aker Solutions expands role in Mariner field development (UK)

    15 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Aker Solutions has secured a contract from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to provide engineering, construction and commissioning services for the hook-up phase of the Mariner oilfield development in the UK North Sea. The agreement is worth more than GBP 120 million ($188.8 million). It comes in addition to a five-year maintenance and modifications services […]

  • Offshore watchdog finds irregularities in ‘West Bollsta’ AoC application

    2 April 2020

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has found irregularities regarding an application for the Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the West Bollsta drilling rig.

  • DOF signs three new contracts for its vessels

    13 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Norwegian owner of offshore support vessel DOF has been awarded contracts for three of its vessels. The company today said that the contracts were secured by its subsidiaries DOF Rederi AS and Waveney AS. Under the contract, the Skandi Fjord construction support vessel, has been hired by Saipem America Inc. Saipem has chartered the 1983-built […]

  • Eni briefs PSA Norway on Goliat progress as production remains shut

    9 September 2016

    Eni Norge, a subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni, on Friday attended a meeting with the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) over the recent shutdown of its Goliat offshore field in the Barents Sea. According to PSA, Eni has decided not to resume production at the field until the proper measures are implemented and […]

  • Dolphin’s Acquisition of Møre Tampen Survey Underway

    3 August 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Dolphin Geophysical is currently acquiring 4192km² of new Multi-Client 3D SHarp Broadband seismic in the northernmost region of the Norwegian North Sea. The survey targets both open and newly awarded APA acreage. Current acquisition progress stands at 40%, Dolphin informed. The Polar Duchess is utilising 12 Streamers with 75m separation and 6750m offsets to acquire […]

  • Aker Solutions Lands Mariner Hook-Up

    15 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Aker Solutions has secured a contract from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to provide engineering, construction and commissioning services for the hook-up phase of the Mariner oilfield development in the UK North Sea. The agreement is worth more than GBP 120 million. It comes in addition to a five-year maintenance and modifications services contract awarded […]

  • Ocean Installer Nets Balder Field Work

    16 June 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Ocean Installer has been awarded its first call-off contract under a framework agreement with ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Norway AS (EEPNAS) for subsea well tie-back, engineering, IRM, ROV and associated services at the Balder field. The call-off contract comprises fabrication and installation of EDU (Electrical Distribution Unit) mud mat, transportation and installation of an 8” […]

  • Fred. Olsen sells ‘Borgsten Dolphin’ for scrap

    13 July 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Fred. Olsen Energy, a Norwegian offshore drilling contractor, will sell its tender support vessel Borgsten Dolphin for decommissioning. The rig has been cold-stacked in Invergordon, Scotland after the early termination of its contract with Total in 2016. The oil company had hired the Borgsten Dolphin back in 2011 for a 40-month program to undertake tender […]

  • Faroe spuds Brasse well offshore Norway

    24 May 2016
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing activities in Norway and the UK, has started drilling the Brasse exploration well 31/7-1 in the Norwegian North Sea. The Brasse prospect, operated by Faroe with 50% interest, is located immediately south of the producing Brage oil field (Faroe 14.3%) and, if successful, could be tied-back to the […]

  • Norway: Grenland Group Receives LOI on Katla Project from FMC Technologies at Kongsberg

    15 November 2010
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Grenland Group is contracted to deliver one integrated template structure and one manifold for FMC Technologies at Kongsberg. The total weight for the delivered structures will be approximately 350 tonnes. FMC Technologies recently signed an agreement with Statoil for the delivery of subsea production systems to the Katla field. Katla is an offshore oil and […]

  • Lundin Starts Vollgrav South Drilling Ops

    1 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Lundin Petroleum has started drilling operations at exploration well 33/12-10 S in production licence 631. The well will investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the Vollgrav South prospect in PL631, which is located 150 km west of Florø on the Norwegian west coast and between the giant Gullfaks and Statfjord fields. The main objective of well 33/12-10 S is […]

  • Out of layup & back to work

    6 April 2017
    Exploration & Production

    The worst is over, the layup list is decreasing. But after the most brutal downturn in memory, what are we left with? Written by Inger-Louise Molver, Offshore Analyst at Westshore    AHTS will see the quickest recovery Around a third of the AHTS vessels trading the spot market have disappeared since the high point back […]

  • Havyard Group Deliveres Its Sixth Newbuilding to Indian Shipping Company

    20 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Friday last week Havyard Group delivered its sixth newbuilding to the Indian shipping company Global Offshore Services and the naming ceremony were held Monday in Aberdeen and Arlie Snellen was Godmother. The platform supply ship (PSV) “Ben Nevis” is a Havyard 832 design. This was the sixth PSV Havyard has built and delivered to the […]

  • CIMC Raffles Starts Construction of COSL Prospector Semi (China)

    3 July 2012

    CIMC Raffles informs that the construction of COSL Prospector semi-submersible drilling rig has begun in Yantai City, China. Mr. Li Yong, Chief Executive Officer and President of COSL, and representatives from the rig’s contractor CIMC Raffles, China Classification Society （“CCS”）, Det Norske Veritas （“DNV”） and the designer Greland Group, etc. attended a ceremony marking the […]

  • Solstad vessels to support drilling off Australia and Timor Leste

    26 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Norwegian vessel owner Solstad Offshore has secured new contract awards for its vessels for operations in Australia and Timor Leste.

  • Harding’s lifeboats for Johan Sverdrup field

    12 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Statoil has awarded Harding, a provider of marine life-saving systems, a contract for delivery of the nine free-fall lifeboats needed for phase one of the Johan Sverdrup development, located in the North Sea.  The Johan Sverdrup field, located 155km west of Stavanger, is the largest oil discovery on the Norwegian continental shelf since the 1980s. The […]

  • New lineup for Equinor’s board of directors

    8 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy

    Equinor has added a new member to its board of directors and re-elected several others, including shareholder-elected members.

  • Det norske to develop Viper-Kobra discoveries using Alvheim FPSO

    16 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian oil company Det norske has decided to develop Viper-Kobra discoveries in the North Sea. The project comprises two small discoveries in the Alvheim area, offshore Norway. According to plan, approximately 7 500 barrels will be flowing into the Alvheim FPSO every day around Christmas time 2016. Viper-Kobra is located in the Alvheim area and consists […]

  • Neptune to raise production by 110,000 boepd in next two years

    22 November 2019

    Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has stated that its new projects would raise production by 110,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day in the next two years.

  • Norway: WGP Completes LoFS 14 Survey on Valhall Field

    3 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    With LoFS 14 now completed on schedule and without incident this closes another successful year of operating the portable source system for BP Norge AS, operator of the Valhall Field. LoFS 14 was WGP’s third operational survey of the Valhall field utilising the source sub-arrays of Thalassa Energy Services’ Portable Modular Source System (PMSSTM). The […]

  • Norway: WGP Completes Valhall Operational Survey for BP

    3 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    With LoFS 14 now completed on schedule and without incident this closes another successful year of operating the portable source system for BP Norge AS, operator of the Valhall Field. LoFS 14 was WGP’s third operational survey of the Valhall field utilising the source sub-arrays of Thalassa Energy Services’ Portable Modular Source System (PMSSTM). The […]

  • Benthic completes site investigation for Polish offshore wind projects

    26 July 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Benthic, a geo-services brand in Acteon’s Data and Robotics division, has completed a site investigation comprising cone penetration tests (CPTs) at the MFW Bałtyk II and MFW Bałtyk III offshore wind farm sites in the Polish Baltic Sea. The tests were done using the company’s portable remotely operated drill (PROD) that has enabled the design […]

  • LR to Class Largest Heavy Lift Crane Vessel

    28 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    International classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has won a contract to class the world’s largest heavy lift crane vessel (NSCV) for the Netherlands-based Heerema Group. The USD 1 billion, dual-fuel LNG and MGO semi-submersible vessel will be constructed at the newly opened Sembcorp’s Yurong Shipyard in Singapore, and is due to be delivered in the fourth quarter […]