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  • Norway: Partners in Johan Sverdrup Field Ink Pre-Unit Agreement

    27 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    The partners in the Johan Sverdrup (formerly known as Aldous/Avaldsnes) field have signed a pre-unit agreement under which  the owners of production licences 265 and 501 will cooperate in the planning of the Johan Sverdrup field towards an investment decision and submission of the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO). Statoil is appointed the working […]

  • VIDEO: Statoil’s FSU Mariner B en route to Scotland

    27 June 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Statoil’s Mariner B floating storage unit (FSU) is on its way to Scotland from Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. A naming ceremony for the Mariner B FSU was held in April in South Korea. Norwegian oil company Statoil on Monday launched a video of the 255 meters long Mariner B FSU leaving the shipyard. The […]

  • Emergency preparedness probe finds flaws on Statoil’s Troll C

    22 May 2017

    Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found nine non-conformities at Statoil’s Troll C platform off Norway during a probe into emergency preparedness management, logistics, and employee participation.  The Troll field is located in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea. During the audit, the PSA found non-conformities related to emergency […]

  • Lundin to reassess Alta discovery following completion of two appraisals

    28 August 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Lundin Norway has completed the drilling of Alta oil and gas discovery appraisal wells in the Barents Sea. The oil company will now reassess the resource estimate of the discovery based on results from the pair of appraisal wells.  The appraisal wells 7220/11-4 and 7220/11-4 A are located in production license 609 where Lundin is the […]

  • Repsol prolongs platform supply vessel’s assignment

    31 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Golden Energy Offshore Services (GEOS) has secured a contract extension for one of its platform supply vessels (PSVs) with Repsol.

  • Odfjell Drilling Opens Brazil Office

    18 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry Trond Giske opened Odfjell Drilling’s new office in Rio de Janeiro today. “We see Brazil as a particularly important market and wish to become a player in the Brazilian deepwater market in the years ahead,” says Odfjell CEO Simen Lieungh. “Brazil’s vast oil and gas reserves represent an […]

  • WATCH: Activists board Boskalis vessel carrying Shell’s North Sea-bound FPSO

    1 February 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    Environmental activists have boarded Boskalis vessel, which is transporting a circular FPSO destined for Shell’s oil & gas project off the UK.

  • Equinor keeping ‘Safe Boreas’ at Mariner at least till October 2018

    19 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil firm Equinor has exercised an option to extend a contract for a Prosafe offshore accommodation unit.

  • Wintershall Dea gives more work to Eidesvik PSV

    9 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Eidesvik has secured a contract extension for one of its PSVs with Wintershall Dea, enabling the vessel to continue working off Norway.

  • Equinor gets safety clearance to use ‘Songa Equinox’ on Troll field

    25 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received consent from the PSA to use the Songa Equinox rig for production drilling on the Troll field.

  • Statoil’s Gina Krog Platform Project Moves Forward, Norway

    5 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a contract to provide Korean shipbuilding firm Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) with turbomachinery equipment and services for a new oil and gas production platform being built to support the production activities of Statoil Petroleum AS and its partners Total S.A. and Det Norske in the Gina […]

  • Repsol to close down Varg field off Norway

    11 February 2016

    Spanish oil major Repsol has reportedly asked for a permission from the authorities to plug eight wells and shut down the Varg field, located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.  Repsol is the operator of the field with 65% interest and the partners are Petoro with 30%, and Det norske oljeselskap with 5% interest. The field is […]

  • Peab to Constructs New Seabed in Horten

    22 October 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Horten Municipality has selected Peab to clear, clean and construct a new seabed in the Horten harbor basin, in a contract worth NOK 120 million. This is Peab’s second ocean floor project in Norway. During 2018 Peab finished clearing, cleaning and constructing a new seabed in Pudde Fjord, Bergen. “The project was interesting from a […]

  • European Shipyards Overtake Asian Counterparts in Q1

    23 May 2016

    Shipyards in Europe received in the first quarter of 2016 more orders than their competitors in Asia, German Shipbuilders and Ocean Industries Association Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik (VSM) reports.   Namely, out of USD 6.5 billion worth orders on a global scale placed in the first quarter of this year, European shipyards won orders worth USD 3.7 […]

  • SLB OneSubsea’s new contract takes it to Equinor’s all-electric subsea project

    27 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Transition

    SLB has secured a contract with Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor under which it is set to deliver the front-end engineering design (FEED) for an all-electric subsea project in Norway’s waters. As part of the agreement, SLB will deliver the FEED of a 12-well, all-electric subsea production systems (SPS) project in the Fram Sør field […]

  • Intergraph Offers Preview of Its Smart 3D 2014 at ONS Norway 2013

    26 August 2013

    Intergraph® Executive Vice President EMIA Philippe Marceau, during a press conference with industry journalists at the ONS Norway 2013 conference, presented a preview of the upcoming Intergraph Smart 3D 2014, which boasts hundreds of enhancements and several innovative capabilities to further enhance user productivity. Marceau announced during the press conference that Intergraph’s Arne Monsholm on […]

  • Norway: NPD Receives PDO for Hild Field in North Sea

    26 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has received the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the oil and gas discovery 30/7-6 Hild in the North Sea. Total is the operator for the development. Total recoverable reserves in the discovery are estimated at 29 million cubic metres of recoverable oil equivalents. In total, NOK 25 billion will […]

  • Uptime’s gangway gets highest grade during Oseberg gig

    10 October 2017

    Norway’s Uptime International has achieved the ‘world’s first’ Statoil TRL7 proven technology approval for motion compensated gangways. According to Uptime, TRL 7 is Statoil’s highest technology readiness level. This approval was given to the Uptime 23,4m active motion compensated gangway. During the approval, the gangway was mounted on Island Offshore’s vessel Island Crown during a […]

  • With ‘high’ oil & gas activity in 2023, more exploration in frontier areas on Norway‘s wish list

    12 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Out of the 34 exploration wells spudded on the NCS last year 23 were wildcat wells, which resulted in 14 discoveries.

  • Norwegian marine geophysics firm about to wrap up its first offshore wind contract

    14 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian marine geophysical company PGS is set to complete its inaugural contract for ultra-high resolution 3D wind farm site characterization by the end of this month. PGS secured its first ultra-high resolution wind farm site characterization project at the beginning of the year, marking its entry into what it described as ”a strategically important new energy […]

  • Transocean picks up new deals. Newbuild drillship starts Shell ops

    12 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has been awarded several new contracts for its drilling rigs. In addition, the driller’s newbuild drillship started a contract with Shell.  In the company’s latest fleet status report covering a period from October 2015 till February 2016, Transocean said that in February its newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Thalassa started operations on […]

  • Forum Delivers Mojave ROV to ESEA Submarine

    28 February 2017
    Equipment

    Forum  Energy Technologies has delivered a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to ESEA Submarine to perform a variety of offshore roles, including inspection, survey and salvage work. The Sub-Atlantic Mojave will also be used by ESEA Submarine’s sister company, ESEA Marine. In addition, the Mojave will play a training role in helping ROV pilots to develop […]

  • RWE and SolarDuck partner up to commercialize offshore floating solar. Plans laid for integration with offshore wind

    19 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Transition, Vision

    RWE, one of the world’s leading companies for renewable energy, and Dutch-Norwegian company SolarDuck have signed a collaboration agreement to develop the use of floating solar parks at sea, while also outlining plans for integration of such power plants with offshore wind farms.

  • NPD Studies Unmanned Wellhead Platforms as Alternative to Subsea Tie-Back

    23 October 2015
    Research & Development

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) wants unmanned wellhead platforms to be considered more often as an alternative to subsea tie-back in connection with development decisions. A new study will look into the benefits and disadvantages of wellhead platforms, NPD said. NPD has commissioned a study with the objective of gaining further knowledge about the different types of […]

  • MPCC opts for sustainable financing for two methanol dual-fuel ships

    25 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Norwegian shipping company MPC Container Ships (MPCC) has signed a $55 million pre- and post-delivery ECA-covered financing agreement with Deutsche Bank and SINOSURE for its two dual-fuel methanol newbuildings.