10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Norway: 43 Oil Firms Apply for APA 2011

    15 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    A preliminary count reveals that 43 companies have applied for acreage in the 2011 Awards in Predefined Areas (APA 2011).  This result shows that there is still considerable interest in awards in predefined areas in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea, even through much of the acreage has already been awarded […]

  • Equinor cleared to deploy Transocean rig for well workover

    8 August 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Equinor has received consent from Norway’s safety regulator to use one of Transocean’s rigs for well workover on a field in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Equinor’s latest oil discovery doubles Norne reserves

    4 October 2018

    Norwegian oil company Equinor has struck oil at the appraisal well of the Cape Vulture discovery from 2017.

  • Clean Arctic Alliance urges IMO to create new emission control areas in Arctic

    18 March 2024
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The Clean Arctic Alliance has urged the International Maritime Organization (IMO) member states to agree to the creation of new areas in the Arctic that will be protected from polluting air emissions from shipping.

  • Image of the Day: Where Does the Sea End and the Sky Begin?

    27 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Navion Europa is a 1995-built oil products tanker owned by Navion Offshore Loading AS, and operated by Teekay Shipping Norway AS. She currently operates the waters of the Norwegian Sea, where it serves as a temporary storage vessel for the Statoil’s Heidrun field and the Heidrun Oil Export Solution (HOES). This image, posted by Teekay Corporation, is probably taken on her arrival […]

  • PGS expands seismic operations in Northern hemisphere

    3 June 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    PGS has taken over the work on the Norwegian Sea GeoStreamer X survey, providing more coverage and understanding of this area.

  • Balltec Executes Pipeline Recovery Job in North Sea

    8 August 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Balltec has recently completed offshore pipeline recovery work on behalf of TechnipFMC Norway. Balltec provided a 10-inch PipeLOK pipeline recovery tool, which was deployed to a water depth of 314 metres. The subsea pipeline recovery tool was used to recover a 10 inch gas pipeline on Equinor’s Åsgard field, located in the Norwegian Sea. The […]

  • New E&P player gains nod to drill with Island Drilling rig

    12 January 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Spirit Energy has received consent from the PSA for drilling and testing wildcat wells in the Norwegian Sea with the Island Innovator rig.

  • Equinor gives out more work to Ocean Installer

    27 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norway’s Ocean Installer has secured a new subsea line modification (SLM) project award from compatriot energy giant Equinor, with execution scheduled for fall. The scope of work on Åsgard A in the Norwegian Sea covers the recovery of two risers, the installation of one new riser and flexible jumper, and the engineering, procurement, and installation […]

  • Statoil to work on Kristin field well plugging with ‘Scarabeo 5’

    8 May 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Scarabeo 5 rig for permanent plugging of well 6506/11-N-4 H on the Kristin field in the Norwegian Sea. According to the PSA, Statoil has allocated up to 27 days for the activity, which will start in mid-May 2015. Water depth at the […]

  • DEA builds Norwegian asset base, buys new licenses from Engie

    23 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    DEA has acquired participating interest in seven licenses in the Njord area in the Norwegian Sea, including 20% increased interest in the Njord field, from Engie E&P Norge. DEA said on Friday that the agreement with Engie E&P Norge includes: 20% in the Njord field (PL107 and PL132), 10% in the Hyme field (PL348), 10% […]

  • Solstad vessels to support two offshore drilling campaigns in Norway

    22 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has been awarded contracts for two platform supply vessels (PSVs) in Norway. 

  • First Subsea Provides Mooring to Statoil’s Spar Platform

    16 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Subsea mooring specialist First Subsea has been awarded a contract by Hyundai and Technip to supply the mooring line connectors for Statoil’s Spar platform in the Aasta Hansteen gas field, in the Norwegian Sea. The platform will be the world’s largest Spar platform and the first of its kind on the Norwegian continental shelf. The […]

  • BP to Use Island Constructor for Skarv Field Well Intervention, Norway

    12 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    BP Norge AS (BP) has received consent to use Island Constructor for well intervention on the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea. The consent covers work on well 6507/3-D-2H at Skarv field. The operation has an estimated duration of one month. The Island Constructor is operated by Island Offshore Management AS. It received the PSA’s […]

  • Statoil hands over Polarled gas pipeline to Gassco

    4 May 2017

    Norwegian energy company and LNG player Statoil said it has transferred the operatorship of the Polarled natural gas pipeline to Gassco. The 482-kilometre pipeline between the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea and Nyhamna was delivered NOK 4.5 billion ($520m) below budget, according to a statement by Statoil. Polarled is the first subsea pipeline crossing […]

  • EMAS’ Lewek Connector to Install Subsea Templates at Aasta Hansteen

    14 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    EMAS AMC, the subsea services division of EMAS, a leading global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas industry, announced today that it has won a contract from Statoil for the transport and installation of subsea templates for the Norwegian Sea’s deepest offshore project – the Aasta Hansteen field […]

  • Subsea 7 and Aker Solutions Bank On Snefrid Nord

    6 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil and partners have decided to develop the Snefrid Nord gas discovery near the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. The discovery, scheduled to come on stream in late 2019, will be tied back to Aasta Hansteen. The Norwegian authorities today received a supplement to the ‘Plan for Development and Operation’ (PDO) of the […]

  • Solveig Gas Acquires Stake in Polarled Pipeline from Wintershall Dea

    3 October 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Solveig Gas has acquired a 13.255% stake in the Polarled gas pipeline from Wintershall Dea. Polarled is the first pipeline on the Norwegian continental shelf crossing the Arctic Circle. The 482-kilometer long and 36-inch wide pipeline runs from Nyhamna in western Norway to the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. The pipeline was completed […]

  • VIDEO: Sail Away Ceremony for Asgard Subsea Template

    20 June 2013
    Equipment

    Norwegian-state run oil and gas company Statoil on Tuesday informed that the 1800-tonne subsea template for the Åsgard subsea gas compression pioneering project was en route from the shipyard in Egersund to the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. The installation, set to come on stream in 2015, will enable the recovery of an additional 280 […]

  • Statoil to use Navion Europa as temporary storage for Heidrun

    20 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Statoil Petroleum has received consent to use the shuttle tanker, Navion Europa, as a temporary storage vessel for the Heidrun field and the Heidrun Oil Export Solution (HOES). Heidrun is located at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Water depth is around 350 metres. The field has been developed using a concrete floating tension leg platform […]

  • OMV taps TechnipFMC for Iris Hades field

    11 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    TechnipFMC has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Austrian oil and gas company OMV, for the subsea production system (SPS & SURF) for the Iris Hades field. The integrated FEED contract for the Iris Hades development project is valued at NOK 30 million (around €3 […]

  • Statoil Picks Up Pace Towards Realizing Fast Track Field Developments Offshore Norway

    25 February 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      A contract signed recently with Technip for marine operations and pipelay on the Gygrid field development in the Norwegian Sea is proof. “This agreement moves us one step closer to realising Gygrid, planned to start during 2Q 2011 and begin producing as soon as late 2012/early 2013,” says Halfdan Knudsen, vice president project management, […]

  • Statoil Resumes Production on Njord A

    21 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil resumed oil and gas production on the Njord A platform in the Norwegian Sea on 19 July, after a major reinforcement of the platform structure. Production has been shut down since last summer. Extensive analyses and inspections in 2013 revealed a need to reinforce the Njord A platform structure. To be on the safe […]

  • Statoil Spuds Snilehorn Well

    18 September 2013

    Statoil has begun drilling at Snilehorn exploration well 6407/8-6 in the Norwegian Sea, Faroe Petroleum, which owns a 7.5% share in the prospect, has announced. The Snilehorn prospect is located four kilometres from the Hyme producing oil field (Faroe 7.5%) in the Norwegian Sea. Hyme produces into the Njord field facilities (Faroe also 7.5%). The well […]

  • ‘Major’ modification work at Norwegian offshore platform is a go

    28 July 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Norwegian offshore safety regulator has given Equinor consent to carry out modifications at a platform operating on a field in the Norwegian Sea.