10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • WATCH: ‘Key’ piece of North Sea oil & gas platform ready for next stage

    11 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Drydocks World Dubai, a part of DP World, has slid the final section of a module into place for a new platform destined for deployment at an oil and gas development in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Bureau Veritas to provide inspection services on Neptune’s Fenja

    17 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Bureau Veritas has been awarded a four-year contract with Neptune Energy for inspection services on the Fenja development.

  • NPD Expects Norwegian Shelf Investments to Rise

    14 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    The activity level on the Norwegian shelf is high, with investments expected to rise in the next few years. In spite of this, NPD sees that more than 50 per cent of the oil remains in the fields. This is a source of concern for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), which is now calling for […]

  • Seal of approval for Equinor to start drilling activities with Transocean rig

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

    Equinor has received consent from Norway’s regulator to use one of Transocean’s rigs on a block located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • 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 […]

  • Norway: IKM Wins Aasta Hansteen Pipe FEED Contract

    13 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    IKM Ocean Design has been awarded a pipeline front-end engineering and design contract from Statoil for the Aasta Hansteen deep-water field off Norway. The Norwegian contractor will carry out FEED design work, with an option for detailed engineering, on pipelines and cables to be installed at the harsh-environment Norwegian Sea field, formerly named Luva. In […]

  • Transocean rig undertaking drilling ops at field offshore Norway

    13 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has begun drilling activities with one of Transocean’s rigs at a field in the Norwegian Sea, which will be tied back to an existing floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit off the coast of Norway.

  • Double delight for SH

    26 August 2008

    StatoilHydro has been boasting about two of its latest drilling successes as the major Norwegian oil show and conference Offshore Northern Seas kicked off in Stavanger at the start of this week. Norway‘s biggest operator reported a find after drilling the Dagny prospect with the 15/5-7 well drilled with the Transocean Winner semi-submersible operating in […]

  • 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.

  • CHC choppers for Wintershall’s Maria field drilling program

    15 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    CHC Group will provide helicopter services during Wintershall’s drilling program at the Maria Field in the Norwegian Sea. CHC said on Wednesday that the operation would begin in March 2017, flying from CHC’s base in Kristiansund using a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter. Wintershall’s drilling program is expected to last for an initial period of approximately 550 days. […]

  • Statoil: Tougher lifeboat requirements

    24 July 2006

    Pioneering work by Statoil and the Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF) may drive a new international lifeboat standard. The lifeboat project was initiated after weaknesses were discovered last year on six free-fall lifeboats on the Kristin platform in the Norwegian Sea and the Veslefrikk B platform in the North Sea. The boats sustained superstructure damage […]

  • Neptune Energy picks up drilling permit for Grind well

    8 January 2020
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Neptune Energy a drilling permit for a well in the Norwegian Sea. 

  • 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 […]

  • Wintershall Dea makes new discovery near Dvalin field

    20 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Oil and gas company Wintershall Dea has made a gas/condensate and oil discovery near the Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea.

  • 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.

  • PHOTO: Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen spar heads to Norway

    21 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has informed that on Friday, at 14:30 local time in South Korea the world’s largest spar, Aasta Hansteen, left Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard, heading for Norway.  The spar is being transported on the heavy transport vessel, Dockwise Vanguard. The journey is 14,500 nautical miles and will take approximately two months, Statoil informed […]

  • A/S Norske Shell Drills Duster in Licence 392 Offshore Norway

    30 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    A/S Norske Shell, operator of production licence 392, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 6603/5-1 S (Dalsnuten). The well has been drilled about 50 km northeast of the 6603/12-1 (Gro) gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea, and about 410 km west of Sandnessjøen. The objective of the well was to […]

  • Inpex grabs exploration acreage offshore Norway

    18 January 2019

    Japan’s Inpex, through its unit Inpex Norge snapped up two exploration licenses offshore Norway in Norway’s Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2018 licensing round.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.