10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Shell Gets Consent to Use Subsea Wells on Draugen

    29 April 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Norske Shell has received consent to use two subsea wells on Draugen field. Shell is the operator of Draugen oil field, located at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea, around 150 kilometers north of Kristiansund. Production from the field began in 1993. In 2013, Shell initiated a programme to drill four subsea wells on the field. Two […]

  • Saipem vessel lifts Dvalin module aboard Heidrun platform

    6 August 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Heavy lift vessel Saipem 7000 has lifted the 3,500 tonne Dvalin module aboard the Equinor-operated Heidrun platform located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Floatel Superior Tilts. Statoil Evacuates Workers (Norway)

    7 November 2012

    Norwegian energy giant Statoil has evacuated workers from Floatel Superior accommodation rig due to a serious stability incident, the PSA Norway informs. The operator informed the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway of the incident this morning explaining that an anchor had punctured one of the ballast tanks causing the flotel to tilt approximately 4 degrees. There […]

  • ABB Package for Remote-Controlled Submersible Fish Farm in Arctic Ocean

    28 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    ABB has won a contract from Arctic Offshore Farming to power its first-ever remote controlled submersible offshore salmon farm in the Arctic Ocean. ABB will provide a comprehensive package of its electrical, automation, instrumentation and telecom technologies. With the global market volume of salmon expected to hit 4.5 million tons by 2023, according to a […]

  • Norske Shell to Use Subsea Loading System on Draugen Field (Norway)

    17 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Norske Shell has been granted consent to use the new subsea loading system for crude oil on the Draugen field. Installation and commissioning of the new subsea loading system is planned during the fourth quarter of 2012. During commissioning of the new system, the existing loading buoy (FLP) will be in operation to maintain oil […]

  • Transocean Barents to Spud Ormen Lange Well

    8 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    A/S Norske Shell has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use Transocean Barents to drill appraisal well 6305/8-2 at Ormen Lange. Ormen Lange is a gas field located in the Møre Basin in the southern section of the Norwegian Sea. The sea here varies from 800 metres to more than 1100 […]

  • China: CIMC Raffles Delivers Semisubmersible Drilling Rig to COSL

    26 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Limited (“CIMC Raffles”) , a comprehensive offshore solution provider capable of design, construction and commissioning of large offshore equipment and special vessels, today delivered semisubmersible drilling rig (“COSLPioneer”) to China Oilfield Services Limited. The COSLPioneer is a semi-submersible drilling rig designed to operate in water depths up to 750 meter.The unit […]

  • Neptune Energy starts drilling Bue well off Norway

    8 September 2020
    Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has started drilling the Bue well on the offshore Fenja field in the Norwegian Sea.

  • With portfolio now five oil & gas fields lighter, Vår Energi’s stake in operated asset gets boost

    30 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Vår Energi has wrapped up the divestment of its interests in five oil and gas fields in the Norwegian Sea for a fixed after-tax consideration of $51 million and the transfer of a stake DNO Norge, a subsidiary of DNO, has in one of Vår Energi’s core hub areas.

  • Agility Subsea Fabrication Secures TechnipFMC Contract for Visund North

    3 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian manufacturer of subsea equipment, Agility Subsea Fabrication (ASF), has won a contract with TechnipFMC to build an integrated subsea manifold system for the Visund North field in the Norwegian Sea. The work will be carried out at Agility Subsea Fabrication`s site in Tønsberg. The yard in Tønsberg is Agility Subsea Fabrication’s largest production site. The company has temporarily […]

  • PHOTO: Aasta Hansteen Spar on Its Way to Norway

    21 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Norwegian oil & gas giant Statoil has reached another milestone as the world’s largest spar destined for Aasta Hansteen field sets sail for Norway. At 14:30 local time in South Korea the Aasta Hansteen spar left Hyundai Heavy Industries after it was recently floated out and loaded onto the world’s largest transport vessel the Dockwise Vanguard. The […]

  • VIDEO: Flexible Fallpipe Vessel Stornes

    14 November 2014

    Subsea Rock Installation, or SRI, is a proven technique for the protection and stabilisation of offshore structures. Typically fallpipe vessels are used to install the rock in water depths up to 2,200 meters. Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has recently set the world record while performing the subsea rock installation works, executed in relation […]

  • Statoil Exercises Second Option for COSLPioneer

    2 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    COSL Drilling announced today that Statoil has exercised the second 2 years option in for semi-submersible drilling rig COSLPioneer. Based on this contract extension COSLPioneer will be on a firm contract with Statoil until mid August 2016. COSLPioneer is a semi-submersible drilling rig designed to operate in water depths up to 750 meter. The unit is […]

  • Statoil Receives Approval for Drilling in PL 386

    6 December 2012

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 6610/10-1, located in the Norwegian Sea. Well 6610/10-1 will be drilled from the West Alpha drilling facility at position 66° 14` 09.52″ north and 10° 02´ 46.89″ east. The drilling programme for well 6610/10-1 relates to the drilling of a wildcat […]

  • CHC to support Cairn’s first operated offshore wells in Norway

    3 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Cairn Energy’s Norwegian subsidiary Capricorn Norge has hired CHC for the provision of helicopter services for its upcoming drilling operations in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Norway: Statoil Awards Two Major Metocean Studies to Fugro GEOS

    2 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      Fugro GEOS has secured two large metocean (meteorological and oceanographic) measurement studies for Statoil in the Norwegian and North Seas. These highlight the importance of accurate metocean data at the design stage of development of offshore fields, and for life extension of existing fields. The first contract sees Fugro GEOS undertake a five year […]

  • Two Major Metocean Statoil Awards to Fugro GEOS (Norway)

    1 February 2011
    Project & Tenders

      Fugro GEOS has secured two large metocean (meteorological and oceanographic) measurement studies for Statoil in the Norwegian and North Seas. These highlight the importance of accurate metocean data at the design stage of development of offshore fields, and for life extension of existing fields. The first contract sees Fugro GEOS undertake a five year […]

  • Maersk Oil Offered 20 Pct Interest in Barents Sea PL710

    13 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Oil Norway has been offered 20% interest in a new license (PL710) in the Barents Sea in the 22nd licensing round. Operator of the licence will be Total E&P Norge AS with 40% interest. Other partners are Tullow Oil Norge AS and GDF Suez E&P Norge AS each with 20% interest. “This is Maersk […]

  • Norway: OMV cleared for Barents Sea drilling

    22 December 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian authorities have granted OMV, an integrated oil and gas company, their consent for drilling in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.  The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) granted a drilling permit to OMV for the well 7324/7-3 S located in the Barents Sea. In addition, OMV received consent for exploration drilling from the Petroleum Safety […]

  • Equinor cleared to use ‘Island Wellserver’ for well intervention in 2020

    15 January 2020

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Island Wellserver vessel for well intervention in 2020.

  • Norway: TGS Commences 8th Season of Long Offset Acquisition in Cooperation with Fugro

    14 June 2010

    TGS announced another season of acquisition of long offset data on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) in cooperation with Fugro. The data to be collected (shown on the attached map) include approximately 15,000 km for the North Sea Renaissance (NSR) survey in Holland, Norway and UK, approximately 10,000 km for the Mid-Norway Regional (MNR) survey […]

  • Heidrun incident probe uncovers ‘a number of barrier breaches’

    14 March 2016

    An investigation of an incident that occurred on the Heidrun field platform, in the Norwegian Sea, by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority has exposed several breaches by an operating company that could have lead to a fatal outcome.  In an incident on September 22, 2015, a 31-kilogram grating plate fell eight metres on the Heidrun platform, operated by […]

  • TGS to start new Atlantic Margin survey this summer

    2 April 2020

    Norwegian seismic player TGS has decided to start work on the industry-funded Atlantic Margin 20 (AM20) 3D multi-client project as soon as the marine seismic acquisition season gets underway in northwest Europe this summer.

  • Subsea Wells on Norwegian Continental Shelf Produce More Oil and Gas Than Platform Wells

    8 June 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Far more oil and gas is now being produced from subsea wells on the Norwegian continental shelf than from platform wells. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has collated production from the fields in 2010 and found that subsea wells dominat the picture. Last year, almost 131.3 million standard cubic meters (Sm3 o.e.) oil equivalents were produced […]

  • Ineos to sell Norwegian oil & gas business for $615 million

    25 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Ineos Energy has made an agreement to sell its oil and gas business in Norway to PGNiG Upstream Norway for a consideration of $615 million.