10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Regulator issues order following audit of Equinor’s Norne FPSO

    26 February 2021
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has issued an order to Equinor following an audit of the company’s integrated risk and barrier management on the Norne FPSO.

  • VIDEO: Asgard Subsea Gas Compression Template Sailaway

    21 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    The 1800-tonne subsea template for the Åsgard subsea gas compression pioneering project is en route from the shipyard in Egersund to the Åsgard field. The steel frame will in the next two weeks be installed on the Åsgard field seabed to form the base of the world’s first subsea gas compression facility. It is the […]

  • Norwegian safety watchdog to probe Scarabeo 5 rig fire

    24 November 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation into a fire which broke out in an engine room on the Scarabeo 5 drilling rig on November 22, 2016. The rig is working on the Statoil-operated Njord field in the Norwegian Sea. There were 106 persons on board when the […]

  • Det norske Wins Eight New Licenses (Norway)

    21 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, on January 15, announced the award of production licenses in the 2012 Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) licensing round, encompassing mature areas on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Det norske oljeselskap ASA was awarded eight new licenses, three of these as operator. In total 40 companies were offered shares in […]

  • VIDEO: Aasta Hansteen LQ start its journey to South Korea

    11 December 2015

    Offshore Energy Today recently reported that living quarters built for Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen platform had sailed away from The Netherlands to South Korea to be mounted on the platform’s topsides at the Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Ulsan shipyard. Once completed, the platform will be located in the Norwegian Sea and operated by the Norwegian company Statoil. Statoil […]

  • High Exploration Activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

    26 July 2010

    At the end of the first half of 2010 (as of 24 June) 2five exploration wells on the Norwegian shelf had been completed. During the same period last year, 33 exploration wells were drilled. 19 of the 2five are wildcat wells (new prospects) and six are appraisal wells (for delineation of earlier discoveries). Nine discoveries […]

  • Platform delays put off Aasta Hansteen production for 2018

    7 October 2015
    Project & Tenders

    First gas from Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field offshore Norway will come later than originally expected. The country’s energy ministry said Wednesday it had been informed by Statoil that the first production date from the deepwater field in the Norwegian Sea would be postponed due to delays in construction of the production platform. This means that […]

  • Statoil proves gas in Mim prospect

    10 March 2017
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6507/3-12 and appraisal well 6507/3-12 A, offshore Norway. The wells proved gas. The wells were drilled about six kilometers east of the Alve field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea and about 200 kilometers west of Sandnessjøen. They are located in production […]

  • Faroe Petroleum Awarded New Exploration Licences in Norway

    16 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that it has been awarded eight new prospective exploration licences, including three operatorships, under the 2012 Norwegian APA Licence Round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Northern North Sea The […]

  • No oil at Terne

    20 June 2014

    Det norske oljeselskap ASA announces that the 6507/5-7 exploration well on the Terne prospect in PL558 in the Norwegian Sea did not encounter hydrocarbons.

  • Norway approves Wintershall’s Maria field development plan

    4 September 2015

    German energy company Wintershall has received approval by the Norwegian authorities for the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Maria development, offshore Norway. The company, a subsidiary of BASF, submitted the PDO to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on May 5. The approved development solution for the Maria field involves two subsea […]

  • Aker Solutions Orders Expro’s Power Connectors for Asgard (Norway)

    14 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Expro has been awarded its single biggest power connector order to date with a contract worth in the region of £7.3million. Aker Solutions, of Norway, has ordered high-voltage subsea connectors for the subsea gas compression system the company is developing for Statoil at the Åsgard field, which is located 124 miles offshore of Norway, in […]

  • Equinor gearing up for North Sea well duo

    9 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat and an appraisal well in the North Sea.

  • EMGS sells 3D EM data for Barents Sea

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into a $8 million data licensing agreement with an international oil company  for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS’ multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. “This sale confirms the increased recognition of the value of EMGS’ EM technology as an important exploration tool. The addition of a […]

  • Another multi-million dollar deal for TechnipFMC – this time off Norway

    30 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    TechnipFMC has secured a significant iEPCI contract with OMV for a gas development project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • Wintershall: Asta Hasten Pipeline Project Kicks Off

    22 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Wintershall has informed that one of the biggest pipe-laying vessels in the world Allseas’ ‘Solitaire’ started its journey to build the Polarled pipeline. The pipeline will transport the gas from Aasta Hansen and the neighboring discoveries to the Norwegian west coast starting in 2017. Since September 2014, Wintershall has been a shareholder in the Aasta Hansteen […]

  • DNO Norge cleared to drill wildcat well in North Sea off Norway

    16 August 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy

    DNO Norge, a subsidiary of Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO, has been granted a drilling permit for a wellbore in the North Sea by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.

  • AGR on Draugen Reservoir Modelling Task

    7 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    AGR will be assisting Norwegian operator OKEA by building a new full field reservoir model for the Draugen asset in the Norwegian Sea. André Sæthern, AGR’s VP of Reservoir Management, said: “We are excited to deliver this project as part of our long-term relationship with OKEA. “We’ll be applying our in-house expertise to build the […]

  • Faroe Petroleum Acquires Stake in 8 New Licences (Norway)

    16 January 2013

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, has been awarded eight new prospective exploration licences, including three operatorships, under the 2012 Norwegian APA Licence Round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.  Northern North Sea The Company has been […]

  • VNG Gets Approval to Drill Pil and Blue Wells (Norway)

    9 October 2013

    VNG Norge AS has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to carry out exploration drilling of wells 6406/12-3 S and A (Pil and Bue) in production licence 586 in the Norwegian Sea using the Transocean Arctic semi-submersible rig. Water depth at the site is 324 metres. These prospects are located about 34 kilometres south-south-west […]

  • Kvaerner lands decommissioning gig with Shell

    10 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian engineering and construction services company Kvaerner has been awarded a contract with Shell for the disposal and demolition of the subsea compression pilot at Nyhamna in Norway.  The onshore Nyhamna facility processes gas from the Shell-operated Ormen Lange field located 140 km north-west of Kristiansund, in the Norwegian Sea. The gas from the field arrives onshore at the Nyhamna […]

  • Norway: Shell to Remove Standby Vessel from Draugen

    29 February 2012

    PSA Norway has granted consent to Norske Shell for removal the dedicated standby vessel on the Draugen field.  The Draugen field is located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of 250 metres. The field was discovered in 1984 and recovery started in October 1993. An updated impact assessment was carried out in 2010 […]

  • Van Oord breaks subsea record at Aasta Hansteen

    14 November 2014
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a world record. During a period of four weeks, Stornes placed rock in water depths of up to 1,277 metres. The subsea rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Statoil-operated Aasta Hansteen gas field and Polarled pipeline in the Norwegian Sea. Recently […]

  • PSA Norway: Heidrun Emergency Preparedness Need Improvement

    1 November 2012

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) today announced it had carried out an audit of leadership and management of preparedness on Statoil’s Heidrun field from 3-4 September 2012. The objective of the audit was to gain an overview of processes and systems that contribute to ensuring comprehensive leadership and management of preparedness on Heidrun. Nonconformities […]

  • Norway: BP Gets Consent for Use of Gas Export Pipeline on Skarv Field

    19 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    BP Norge AS has secured consent to use the gas export pipeline on the Skarv field. Skarv is located about 35 kilometres southwest of the Norne field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea. The development is a unitisation of the 6507/5-1 Skarv and 6507/3-3 Idun deposits. Skarv is developed with a floating production […]