10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • North Energy, Noreco in Licence Swap

    14 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    North Energy ASA and Noreco Norway AS have entered into an agreement on swapping interests in production licences. These transactions mean that North Energy acquires 15 per cent of PL 484 in the Norwegian Sea and transfers a 10 per cent holding in PL 616 in the North Sea to Noreco. PL 484 contains several prospects, with one […]

  • Norway: 7 Offshore Blocks for Wintershall

    20 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian energy ministry has awarded Wintershall Norge A.S.A. working interests in seven new exploration licenses in the current licensing round, APA 2011. Wintershall will be the operator in 4 of the licenses. The awards comprise 4 new licenses in the Norwegian North Sea and 3 licenses in the Norwegian Sea for the BASF subsidiary. […]

  • West Navigator Drillship to Support Faroe’s Novus Prospect, Norway

    28 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that it has contracted the West Navigator drillship to drill the Faroe operated Novus prospect in Norway in the second half of 2013. This licence is located to the […]

  • Norway: Faroe Contracts West Navigator Drillship for Novus Prospect

    28 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that it has contracted the West Navigator drillship to drill the Faroe operated Novus prospect in Norway in the second half of 2013. This licence is located to the […]

  • NPD: Discovery Rate Below Average in the First Six Months 2013 (Norway)

    28 June 2013

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has announced that far this year, 28 exploration wells have been spudded on the Norwegian shelf. Of these, 19 were wildcat wells and nine were appraisal wells. Eight discoveries were made; six in the North Sea and two in the Norwegian Sea. “The past six months have been busy for the Norwegian […]

  • Lundin awarded 7 new licences in Norway

    11 February 2008

    Lundin Petroleum AB (“Lundin Petroleum”) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has been awarded seven new exploration licence interests in the 2007 Norwegian APA Licencing Round. These include four licences which will be operated by Lundin Petroleum. The licence interests detailed below are located in the North Sea, the […]

  • OMV preparing to kick off drilling ops with Transocean rig

    4 July 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    OMV has received consent from Norway’s regulator for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea, using one of Transocean’s rigs.

  • PSA Audits Concrete Coating on Polarled Pipeline

    23 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) conducted an audit of the application of concrete coating on the Polarled pipeline. The audit focused on Statoil and the company’s follow-up of its suppliers. The Polarled pipeline project consists of a 481 km long, 36″ pipeline between the Aasta Hansteen facility in the Norwegian Sea and the Nyhamna […]

  • Norway: Norske Shell Sets New Record in Subsea Installations

    25 July 2011

    Norske Shell is claiming a new subsea installation record on its Ormen Lange development in the Norwegian Sea. A fourth template has been… (subseauk) [mappress] Source: subseauk, July 25, 2011;

  • EMGS sells Barents Sea data

    13 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has informed of a sales agreement from the multi-client library in the Barents Sea. EMGS will receive uplift revenues of $2.5 million related to the licensing round for mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf – Awards in Predefined Areas (APA). EMGS’ multi-client data library in Norway now covers 44,000 km2 […]

  • EMGS Secures Multi-Client Contract Offshore Norway

    3 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement worth USD 6.4 million for the provision of 3D controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) and magnetotelluric (MT) data from EMGS’s multi-client data library in the Norwegian Sea. These revenues will be recognised in the second quarter of 2013. Following this transaction, EMGS has in total secured close […]

  • Wintershall Dea kicks off long drilling campaign as ‘West Mira’ spuds debut well

    11 November 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Wintershall Dea has said that the West Mira rig has spudded its debut well on the Bergknapp exploration prospect in the Norwegian Sea.

  • ABB to Deliver Subsea Transformers for Åsgard Field (Norway)

    14 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Subsea transformers are an ABB innovation. Deployed in extreme conditions in ultra-deepwater, these high-tech workhorses provide the power for heavy-duty equipment on the sea floor – enabling declining oil and gas fields to be more productive and making new deepwater fields accessible. ABB has delivered subsea transformers for fields in the North and Norwegian seas […]

  • Equinor, ConocoPhillips cleared to drill wells off Norway

    21 August 2020
    Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Oil and gas firms Equinor and ConocoPhillips have been cleared to drill wells by Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) in the North and Norwegian Sea, respectively.

  • Aker BP buys eight Norwegian licenses from Tullow

    3 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    Aker BP, a newly-formed offshore, exploration and production company, has announced the acquisition of eight licenses off Norway from the oil company Tullow Norge. To remind, BP Norge and Det norske oljeselskap last week completed their merger thus creating a new, independent E&P company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Aker BP. Following the merger, Aker BP holds a […]

  • Statoil discovers gas in Snefrid Nord prospect

    18 March 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Operator Statoil has together with PL218 partners made a gas discovery in the Snefrid Nord prospect in the Norwegian Sea. According to Statoil, the discovery is an important contribution to the Aasta Hansteen field development project and Polarled pipeline utilisation. “The Snefrid Nord discovery increases the resource base for the Aasta Hansteen field development project […]

  • NPD: Record Number of Applications in APA 2014

    11 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    At the end of the application deadline for awards in predefined areas (APA) 2014 on the Norwegian shelf, the authorities have received applications from 47 companies. “It is positive to see so many companies with faith in the TFO areas,” says Sissel Eriksen, exploration director in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). After several oil and […]

  • Pipelaying contract for Tyrihans

    26 January 2006

    Statoil has awarded Stolt Offshore an assignment to lay two pipelines from the Tyrihans oil and gas field to the Kristin platform in the Norwegian Sea. The contract is worth over NOK 550 million.

  • Hitachi testing ‘world’s most powerful’ subsea transformer for Ormen Lange compression system

    8 July 2022
    Business Developments & Projects

    Hitachi Energy has started testing what is said to be the world’s most powerful 24-MVA subsea transformer, which will be supplied to OneSubsea to power the compression system for the Shell Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea. As informed, the transformer is being tested in the Port of Vaasa in Finland and will enable the […]

  • Shell to drill at Ormen Lange with ‘Transocean Barents’

    4 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Shell has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Transocean Barents to drill a production well at Ormen Lange, in the Norwegian Sea.  Ormen Lange is a gas field located in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea. Norske Shell AS (Shell) is the operator of the field, which came on […]

  • EMGS picks up data licensing deal from Equinor

    4 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has received a contract for data licensing from oil major Equinor following a previously awarded letter of intent.

  • This FPSO started production exactly 16 years ago

    19 May 2015

    On this day, May 19, 1999, oil production kicked off from the Åsgard field, offshore Norway. According to Statoil, the operator of the field located in the Norwegian Sea, Åsgard ranks among the largest developments on the Norwegian continental shelf, embracing a total of 52 wells drilled through 16 seabed templates. Oil at Åsgard A is produced […]

  • Maersk Oil Drills a Duster in PL 513, Offshore Norway

    13 February 2013

    Maersk Oil has finished drilling the 6506/6-2 exploration well on the Albert prospect in Norway. The well, drilled in Production License 513 in the Norwegian Sea, encountered no sign of hydrocarbons. The purpose of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in the Lower Cretaceous Lysing Fm. The well encountered sandstone with reservoir quality as expected, […]

  • Norway: Statoil Selects Spar Platform to Develop Luva Field

    31 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil, together with its Luva field partners, has selected a Spar platform to develop the field. As a gas transport solution has also been decided, a major step has now been taken towards deep-water production in the Norwegian Sea. The Luva field, which is a deep-water pioneer in the Norwegian Sea, may be the first […]

  • Faroe Petroleum Confirms Discovery at Secondary Target from Rodriguez Exploration Well

    31 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that further results from the Rodriguez exploration well in PL475 (6407/1-6S) (Faroe 30%) have confirmed a significant gas condensate discovery in the Lower Cretaceous interval. On 16 January 2013, […]