10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Offshore safety watchdog launches investigation into West Phoenix rig fire

    8 November 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has launched an investigation into a fire which broke out on the West Phoenix drilling unit on Monday, November 5, 2018.

  • Statoil Receives Permission to Drill Appraisal Well in PL 128 (Norway)

    23 May 2013

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 6608/11-8 in the Norwegian Sea. The well will be drilled from the Songa Trym drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 6608/11-8 relates to drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 128. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with an […]

  • No trace of oil at Cairn’s Lynghaug well offshore Norway

    10 July 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Cairn Energy’s Lynghaug well in the Norwegian Sea has come up dry.

  • Report: DEA Norge gets more time for Zidane PDO

    23 June 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Dea Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the German oil firm DEA, has reportedly obtained an extension to the August 2 deadline to submit the plan for development and operation (PDO) for its Zidane  offshore gas field. According to the Norwegian media, the Norwegian petroleum ministry has now given Dea Norge until October 3, 2016. Offshore.no, […]

  • OMV hires Island Innovator rig for Norwegian operations

    12 December 2019
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor Island Drilling has been awarded a contract with OMV in Norway. 

  • Wintershall to fire up Maria field a year in advance

    16 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Germany’s Wintershall has received approval to start production from its Maria development offshore Norway in December, a year earlier that originally expected. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), a government agency responsible for the regulation of the petroleum resources on the Norwegian continental shelf, has granted consent for the start-up of production from the Maria field […]

  • DOF Subsea lands work for three vessels

    9 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    DOF Subsea has been awarded contracts for three of its vessels in the Asia Pacific and Atlantic regions. The new projects bring vessel days for Skandi Singapore, Skandi Skansen and Geosund, the company announced in an Oslo Stock Exchange filing on Friday. In the Asia Pacific region, DOF Subsea has been awarded a 40-day diving […]

  • Worker suffers crush injuries on Transocean Barents. PSA investigates (Norway)

    4 March 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has decided to launch an investigation into an incident that occurred on Transocean Barents on March 4, 2015 when a roughneck suffered crush injuries. According to the PSA, the injured drill floor worker was on the monkey board, about 10-12 metres in the derrick, at the time of the […]

  • Norway: Valiant Petroleum Announces Chamonix Well Spud

    29 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    Valiant Petroleum plc announces that drilling has commenced on its first Norwegian exploration well, 6407/5-2S, on PL471 located in the Norwegian Sea. The well is targeting Chamonix, a potentially large Cretaceous stratigraphic prospect, and the secondary Cortina prospect in the Jurassic. The well is being drilled by semi-submersible rig Borgland Dolphin and is anticipated to […]

  • Norway: Summary of Crude Oil Spills on NCS

    18 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    During the period 2001–2010, there has been a significant reduction in the number of acute crude oil spills on the Norwegian continental shelf. The reduction was greatest during the first years of the period, while the number of spills following this remained stabile for several years. In 2010, the number has declined again, but it […]

  • Equinor makes minor gas discovery near Maria field

    2 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has made a minor gas discovery near the Maria field in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Norway: T-Rex Disappoints

    7 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Danish Maersk Oil has finished drilling the T-Rex prospect offshore Norway. The well, drilled in Production Licence 431 in the Norwegian Sea, discovered hydrocarbons but not in commercial quantities. The well found thinner than expected oil-bearing sands of reservoir quality at two intervals in the Lower Cretaceous target horizons and was not tested for production. […]

  • Gassco gets green light to use Polarled pipeline

    5 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given its consent to the state-owned company Gassco to use the Polarled offshore pipeline. Polarled is a new gas pipeline from Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to the Shell-operated Nyhamna gas processing facility in Møre Og Romsdal county. The pipeline is a […]

  • Faroe Petroleum: Strong and Stable Results in 3Q (UK)

    27 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focussing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, provides an operational update. The Company has a material and active investment programme ahead, which is fully funded from existing cash flow, cash reserves and debt facilities. Production and development […]

  • Marathon Petroleum Acquires 30 pct Stake in PL 330 , Offshore Norway

    26 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Marathon Petroleum Norge AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation , has signed an agreement with RWE Dea Norge AS to acquire a 30 percent working interest in production licence (PL) 330  in the northern Norwegian Sea. “This transaction is part of our ongoing efforts to ensure Marathon’s asset portfolio in Norway is […]

  • Norway: Statoil Gets Clearance to Use Island Constructor

    3 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has received consent to use the Island Constructor mobile facility in the northern part of the North Sea and in the Norwegian Sea. The consent relates to implementation of light well intervention on Oseberg, Gullfaks, Vigdis, Tordis and Kristin. The planned start-up of the intervention work is in November 2011, and the estimated duration […]

  • Norway: Drilling on the PL435 Zidane-1 Prospect Commences

    17 June 2010

    Drilling of the exploration well 6507/7-14S (Zidane prospect) in PL435 has started. The well is being drilled with the rig Bredford Dolphin, and the operator is RWE Dea. Results are expected during September. PL435 is situated in the Norwegian Sea, 10 km northwest of the Heidrun field, and several significant hydrocarbon discoveries have previously been […]

  • Statoil: Nexans umbilicals for Visund field

    4 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Statoil has signed a contract at a value of 4.5 million EUR ($5.15 M) for the fifth delivery of standardised umbilical cables developed by Nexans.  According to Nexans, Statoil’s Visund oil and gas field, located in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea, will be the fifth project to use these standard umbilicals. The […]

  • Aker BP makes minor gas discovery near Skarv field

    6 April 2020
    Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Aker BP has made a minor gas discovery southwest of the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea. 

  • Norway boasts 20 development projects as exploration activity rises

    16 July 2018

    As many as 20 development projects are currently under way on the Norwegian Shelf, and 13 exploration wells in the first half of 2018 have yielded six discoveries, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD). However, production has been somewhat lower in the first six months of the year as compared with the same period […]

  • Statoil extends EMGS survey contract

    4 September 2014

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a supplement contract from Statoil for a survey offshore Norway.   The deal, worth approximately $1.0 million, is for multi-client 3D EM data acquisition in the Norwegian Sea. EMGS expects to start the survey soon, after completing the survey for Statoil announced on 2 June 2014 in the same area, […]

  • NOK 2 billion job for Aker Kvaerner on Skarv FPSO

    20 September 2007

    BP has chosen Aker Kvaerner to perform the detail engineering, procurement and construction management assistance (EPcma) for the Skarv field development in the Norwegian Sea. Since November 2005, Aker Kvaerner has been involved with the project, performing the front end engineering design of the complete production ship (FPSO) and intermediate engineering of the topsides. The […]

  • Aibel sends off first Dvalin module to Heidrun

    8 May 2018
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    DEA Norge’s first Dvalin project development module has left an Aibel yard, heading to the Statoil-operated Heidrun platform in the Norwegian Sea.

  • NPD Gives Nod for Extended Lifetime of Norne FPSO

    4 February 2019

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted consent to Equinor for the extension of production on Norne FPSO with associated facilities for the Norne, Urd and Skuld fields in the Norwegian Sea. In its application for extension, operator Equinor has described an improved drainage strategy for the Norne field and the nearby Urd and Skuld […]

  • Shell gets nod to use parts of Nyhamna expanded for Polarled

    5 December 2016

    Norwegian offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given its consent to Shell to use the expanded facilities at the Nyhamna gas plant in Norway, that will receive gas from the Polarled pipeline.  The 482-kilometer long Polarled pipeline will transport gas from the Statoil-operated Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to Nyhamna. […]