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  • 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.

  • PSA probes Statoil’s Asgard subsea compression project

    10 July 2015
    Equipment

    On May 28, 2015, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of Statoil’s Åsgard subsea compression project.  The Åsgard field lies on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea, about 200 kilometres off mid-Norway and 50 kilometres south of Heidrun. Statoil recently started the installation of the modules that collectively constitute Åsgard subsea […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • FPSO sets its sails toward North Sea project with oil production extension to 2045 in mind

    13 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Vår Energi has confirmed the tow-out of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel from the Worley Rosenberg yard to a field in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.

  • 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.

  • 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 Gov’t Offers 60 Production Licences in APA 2011

    17 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Government has decided to offer 60 production licenses in the Awards in Predefined Areas round for 2011 (APA 2011).  – Today, I am offering participation interests in production licenses to 42 companies. Twenty-seven of these companies are being offered operatorships. APA 2011 is the most extensive licensing round ever undertaken on the Norwegian […]

  • 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: 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • EMGS Expands Mapping Project to Vøring Basin, Norway

    25 October 2012
    Project & Tenders

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has in response to industry demand expanded the previously announced multi-client basalt mapping project in the West of Shetland area to the Vøring Basin in the Norwegian Sea. The vessel Atlantic Guardian will therefore continue to acquire controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) and magnetotelluric (MT) data through to the second half of November […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]