10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • 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 […]

  • 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: 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 […]

  • Total gets OK for Jasper well. To use Scarabeo 8 semi-sub

    26 June 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil and gas industry safety watchdog has given its approval to Total to use the Scarabeo 8 rig for an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea.

  • EMGS Cashes In on Barents Sea Data

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into a data licensing agreement with an international oil company worth USD 8 million for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS’ multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. Of the total sale, data worth USD 4.8 million will be delivered in Q4 2014, of which EMGS will […]

  • PSA Norway in Draugen platform inspection

    23 April 2014

    On 26 and 27 February 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of the dewatering system on Draugen production platform in the Norwegian Sea. The objective of the activity was to obtain more information concerning the implementation of the dewatering system, and the analyses and model tests underpinning the need to […]

  • Norwegian authorities expect up to 40 exploration wells this year

    22 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Norway has recorded a high level of exploration activity in the first half of 2022, which has led to six discoveries so far.

  • Commercial volumes not present in new gas discovery off Norway

    20 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    OMV has made a new gas discovery at an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, using one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs.

  • Transocean in triple rig lay-up

    23 September 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Transocean, an offshore drilling contractor, has laid up three of its rigs.  According to its latest fleet status report, Transocean laid up its semi-submersible drilling rig, the Transocean Barents, the midwater floater GSF Rig 140 and high-spec jack-up rig GSF Galaxy II. The semi-sub Transocean Barents was working for Shell offshore Norway with a dayrate of $300,000. […]

  • Faroe fully funded for Brasse project as a result of Fenja disposal

    13 February 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Faroe Petroleum is now fully funded for its Brasse field development located in the North Sea, following the disposal of part of its interest in the Fenja field in the Norwegian Sea.  

  • PGNiG gets nod to drill its second operated well in Norway

    2 October 2019
    Exploration & Production

    The Polish oil and gas company PGNiG has been granted a license to drill an appraisal well in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Aker BP prolongs Saipem rig’s stay in Norway

    30 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas player Aker BP has extended the contract for the assignment of a semi-submersible drilling rig owned by Italian energy giant Saipem offshore Norway.

  • Norway: Statoil Submits Plan for Hyme Fast-Track Development

    12 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Statoil today, 12 May, submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) for Hyme (formerly Gygrid) in the Norwegian Sea to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE). First oil is scheduled for the first quarter of 2013. The Hyme PDO is the fourth fast-track development plan submitted to the MPE this year. […]

  • Norway Offers 65 Production Licences to 48 Companies

    21 January 2014

    Today, January 21st, the Norwegian government has sent offers to 48 companies for 65 new production licences on the Norwegian continental shelf. The offers are being issued after the authorities have evaluated applications from 50 companies in the Awards in Pre-defined Areas (APA) 2013.   Of the 65 production licences, 38 are located in the North Sea, […]

  • Norway offers offshore licences to 28 oil & gas firms amid ‘great interest’

    18 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered 53 licences on the Norwegian continental shelf in APA 2021 to 28 companies.

  • Equinor unveils plan to invest over $1.4 bln in deepwater gas development

    22 November 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor has submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) of a deepwater gas discovery project in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Norway: AGR Lands Reservoir Services Contract from RWE Dea

    14 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    AGR has been awarded a frame agreement with RWE Dea to provide reservoir services. As a result of recent exploration successes, E&P firm RWE Dea is looking to AGR’s Reservoir Management for the provision of subsurface services during exploration, interpretation, early field development and increased recovery from existing assets. As an international oil and gas […]

  • Norway: RWE Dea Awards Reservoir Services Agreement to AGR

    14 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    AGR has been awarded a frame agreement with RWE Dea to provide reservoir services. As a result of recent exploration successes, E&P firm RWE Dea is looking to AGR’s Reservoir Management for the provision of subsurface services during exploration, interpretation, early field development and increased recovery from existing assets. As an international oil and gas […]

  • Norway Expects Slight Increase in Oil, Gas Production in 2014

    15 January 2014

    A record number of fields are in operation on the Norwegian shelf. Discoveries in 2013 offset roughly half of what was produced in the same year, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said in a statement on Tuesday. An unprecedented number of wildcat wells were drilled, and the number of exploration wells recorded was the second highest […]

  • Oil director: Norwegian shelf well-equipped to weather tough times

    15 January 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has today issued a statement saying that high costs and weaker oil prices could drive necessary readjustments that will strengthen the petroleum industry over the long-term. Significant remaining resources on the Norwegian shelf provide a basis for continued value creation and a high activity level for many years to come, the NPD […]

  • TGS has a hand in Malaysia’s oil & gas discovery, enhances Norwegian exploration ops, and wins another gig in Southern Atlantic

    4 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    TGS has assisted in enabling Petronas, a Malaysian state-owned energy giant, to uncover a new oil and gas discovery. The company also wrapped up its assignment to advance exploration efforts in the Norwegian Sea. In addition, TGS has landed a new deal in the Southern Atlantic.

  • Det norske to operate six new licences off Norway

    20 January 2016

    Det norske, an oil exploration and development company, has been awarded ten new exploration licences offshore Norway, including six operatorship, in the APA (Awards in Pre-defined Areas) 2015.  The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on Tuesday awarded 56 exploration licences offshore Norway to 37 companies. “Also in this round, Det norske achieved a god result. […]

  • RWE Dea bites dust in North Sea wildcat

    19 December 2014
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    RWE Dea Norge AS, operator of production licence 420, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 35/9-12 S, in the North Sea, off Norway.  The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) granted RWE Dea a drilling permit for the well 35/9-12 S in November. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres southwest of […]

  • Statoil: Polarled Becomes First Pipeline to Cross Arctic Circle

    21 August 2015
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    On Friday 21 August the Polarled gas pipeline crossed 66 degrees and 33 minutes north of the equator and became the first pipeline to cross the Arctic Circle, Statoil reported. The 482-kilometre long and 36-inch wide pipeline will run from Nyhamna in western Norway to the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. Allseas’ pipelaying vessel, […]

  • Statoil Makes Gas/Condensate Discovery North of Asgard

    19 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Operator Statoil has together with PL479 partners made a gas/condensate discovery in the Smørbukk North prospect at Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea. Exploration well 6506/9-3, drilled by the drilling rig Transocean Leader, has proven a 40-metre gas/condensate column in a down-to situation in the Garn formation of mid-Jurassic age. In addition a thin gas/condensate column […]