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  • Statoil granted permission to change Halten-Nordland area contingency plan

    24 August 2017

    Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Statoil consent to change contingency planning at the Halten-Nordland area in the Norwegian Sea. The PSA said on Thursday that the contingency planning changes were in connection with the development of Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field. Namely, the Norwegian oil major applied for consent to […]

  • VIDEO: Aasta Hansteen spar sails away

    1 May 2017

    Norwegian oil major Statoil has posted a video of the substructure of the world’s largest spar platform, Aasta Hansteen, being floated onto a heavy transport vessel before setting sail for Norway.  Earlier this month, the substructure started its journey from Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea to Norway. The video shows the substructure being loaded onto the world’s largest […]

  • Wintershall Dea gets permit for appraisal well west of Maria

    16 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Dea Norge a drilling permit for an appraisal well located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Shell Strikes Gas in Record Deepwater Depth on Norwegian Shelf

    30 June 2009

    A/S Norske Shell, operator of production license 326, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6603/12-1. The well proved gas. The discovery is located 150 km northwest of the 6506/6-1 gas discovery (“Victoria”) in the northern Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled in 1376 meters of water, which is the greatest water depth of any […]

  • Statoil recommissions Scarabeo 5

    22 December 2014
    Exploration & Production

    Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Scarabeo 5 for plugging and production drilling in the Norwegian Sea.  Statoil is the operator of the Kristin field, which is in blocks 6406/2 and 6506/11 at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Statoil will plug well 6406/2-R-4 BHT2 permanently and simultaneously drill […]

  • Shell sells equity in undeveloped Norwegian assets

    2 August 2007

    A/S Norske Shell (‘Shell’) today announced that the company has entered into an agreement with E.ON Ruhrgas Norge AS to sell its 28% equity interests in the undeveloped Skarv and Idun fields for US$ 893 million. The agreement covers the licenses PL-159, PL-212, PL-212B and PL-262 in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Polish oil company to drill its first well offshore Norway as operator

    25 December 2018

    PGNiG, a Polish state-controlled oil and gas company, is one step closer to drilling its first exploration well in Norway as a license operator.

  • Repsol drills duster near Aasta Hansteen

    12 May 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Oil company Repsol Norge has found weak traces of gas during drilling of a wildcat well in production license 705 in the Norwegian Sea, classifying the well as dry. Repsol Norge is the operator of the license with an ownership interest of 40 percent. Other licensees are DEA Norge with 30 percent and M Vest Energy […]

  • Repsol buys into Mikkel offshore gas field as Total exits

    4 February 2019

    Spanish oil company Repsol will acquire French oil major Total’s 7.65% stake in Norway’s Mikkel field, offshore Norway. This will boost the company’s production in Norway to 32,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day.

  • Wintershall Hands In Maria PDO

    5 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Wintershall and its partners have submitted a Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the Maria field in the Norwegian Sea to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. This is the first time Wintershall, as operator of the field, has submitted a PDO for a Norwegian development. Today, Martin Bachmann, Member of the Board […]

  • Statoil Gets Approval to Use Hyme Facilities (Norway)

    24 December 2012

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has granted Statoil consent to use the facilities on the Hyme field in the Norwegian Sea. Hyme is an oil and gas field located in the Norwegian Sea, approx. 19 km northeast of Njord and 10 km west of Draugen. The field is developed with a subsea template, which […]

  • TGS to Start Atlantic Margin 20 Survey in Summer

    2 April 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    TGS plans to start the Atlantic Margin 20 (AM20) 3D multi-client project as soon as the marine seismic acquisition season gets underway in north-west Europe this summer. The survey will be acquired by the Polarcus Adira. Fast-track data will be available in Q4 2020, with final PSTM product delivery by Q3 2021 and final PSDM […]

  • Equinor, Faroe swap Norwegian assets

    5 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Equinor and Faroe Petroleum have agreed a number of transactions in the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea region of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • Norway calls for exploration bids in mature areas

    9 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norway and its Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has announced this year’s licensing round for the geologically best-known parts of the NCS

  • GALLERY: Statoil ready for Snefrid Nord subsea template installation

    8 May 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Statoil has completed preparations for the installation of the subsea template on the Snefrid Nord gas field.

  • Lundin Petroleum Wins Ten Licences in Norwegian Licensing Round

    19 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Petroleum AB announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has been awarded ten exploration licence interests in the 2010 Norwegian Licensing Round, (Awards in Predefined Areas, APA). The awarded licences include two licences in the Greater Luno Area and one licence in the Greater Alvheim Area. Six of the awarded licences will […]

  • RWE Dea Norge Awarded Two New Production Licences

    21 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    In the Awards in Predefined Areas 2012 (APA 2012), the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered RWE Dea Norge two new production licences, one of which is an operatorship. RWE Dea Norge will become operator of a new production licence (PL) with a 40% share, PL694. This increases the company’s total number of […]

  • EMGS in two 3D EM Barents Sea data sales

    8 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into data licensing agreements with two new customers for the provision of 3D EM data from the multi-client data library over the Barents Sea. EMGS did not disclose the names of the oil companies it entered into agreements with, but it did say that the agreements were worth […]

  • Odfjell Drilling-managed rig to spud wildcat pair offshore Norway

    9 May 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of Austria-headquartered oil and gas player OMV, has received a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for a wildcat well duo in the Norwegian Sea, enabling it to undertake drilling activities this month with a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling.

  • Three oil & gas firms gearing up for Norwegian wells in February

    31 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Three oil & gas companies have been granted drilling permits by Norwegian authorities for wells in the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea.

  • Harbour Energy flows first oil from subsea tie-back in Norwegian waters

    23 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Harbour Energy has brought online a subsea tie-back to its existing infrastructure off the coast of Norway, as part of a major revitalization of an oil field in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Aibel lands Njord Bravo upgrade gig

    19 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has awarded a contract to Aibel for upgrading of the Njord Bravo floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel in the Norwegian Sea.

  • OMV taps NorSea for supply base services in Norway

    9 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    NorSea will provide supply base services to OMV’s operations in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea.

  • Additional resources to Åsgard

    5 July 2007

    Operator Statoil has completed drilling an exploration well at the Yttergryta prospect on the Norwegian Sea’s Halten Terrace. Well 6507/11-8, which lies in production licence 062 around one kilometre east of the Midgard field, was proven to hold gas in sandstones of Jurassic age.

  • Wildcat well comes up dry for Equinor

    15 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has concluded the drilling of a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea but failed to find hydrocarbons.