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  • Equinor gears up for pilot hole in North Sea

    19 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the Deepsea Atlantic rig.

  • Norway: RWE Dea Norge Appoints New Managing Director

    1 July 2011
    Business & Finance

      As from today, Hans-Joachim Polk will be the new Managing Director of RWE Dea Norge. Polk joined RWE Dea as far back as 1992, directly after graduating with a masters’ degree in petroleum engineering from the technical university of Clausthal-Zellerfeld. In the course of his career, Polk spent three years in Cairo before moving […]

  • Gallery: Two decades of oil from Heidrun (Norway)

    23 October 2015

    Statoil’s Heidrun platform, in the Norwegian Sea, reached a milestone of 20 years of oil and gas production on Sunday, October 18, 2015.  Heidrun field was discovered in 1985 by Conoco, which served as operator for the exploration and development phase. The field has been producing oil and gas since October 1995 from a floating tension leg […]

  • Norwegian gas exports to Europe jump

    24 September 2018

    Gassco, the company running the Norwegian gas infrastructure, exported 36.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas during the May-August period hitting a new peak for summer deliveries. 

  • Shell Orders Subsea Connection Systems from Aker Solutions (Norway)

    27 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by A/S Norske Shell, to deliver subsea connection systems for the Draugen field on the Norwegian continental shelf. Contract value is approximately NOK 105 million. Scope of work includes the delivery of complete tie-in connection systems for production flowlines and umbilicals for the expansion of the Draugen field. […]

  • OneSubsea’s ‘cutting-edge’ tool enables Shell’s field to step up on the gas

    5 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    OneSubsea, a joint venture backed by SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7, has revealed that its subsea compressor system, which recently came online at a Shell-operated natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, will allow the operator to unlock new gas supplies for Europe.

  • SKF supplies magnetic bearings for Asgard gas compression system

    10 November 2015
    Equipment

    SKF has supplied magnetic bearings for use in the subsea gas compression system at the Asgard gas field in the Norwegian Sea. SKF has been involved in the development of the project for five years, working in conjunction with MAN Diesel & Turbo, the manufacturer of the electric motor-driven centrifugal compressors that are a part […]

  • Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Adds New Director General

    15 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ingrid Sølvberg has been appointed by the King in Council, to take over the post of director general of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate from Bente Nyland. The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has not yet set the date for the transition. The director general position in the NPD is posted as a fixed term engagement […]

  • Green light to Wintershall Dea for Dvalin start-up

    21 October 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Norwegian authorities have issued consent to Wintershall Dea for the start-up of the Dvalin field located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Lundin spuds Lindarormen prospect (Norway)

    30 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Lundin Petroleum has announced that drilling of exploration well 6405/12-1 in PL584, in the Norwegian Sea, has started. Lundin says the well will investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the Lindarormen prospect in PL584, located 150 km northwest of Kristiansund on the Norwegian coast and approximately 80 km northeast of the Ormen Lange Field. The main […]

  • Statoil Gets Nod for Well Intervention Ops Off Norway

    30 January 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has received approval from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use Island Wellserver and Island Frontier for well intervention activities at Sigyn and Johan Sverdrup fields, offshore Norway. This represents an extension of the previous consent received by Statoil to use Island Wellserver and Island Frontier for well intervention activities on fields in the North […]

  • Norway: Statoil to Use Norne Facilities Beyond Design Life

    13 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Statoil has received consent for extended use of the facilities on the Norne field beyond design life up to and including 31 December 2021.  Norne is an oil field belonging to production licence 128. The field is located in the Norwegian Sea in blocks 6608/10 and 6608/11, and came online in November 1997. Norne […]

  • EMGS bags $3.5 million from data licensing deals

    11 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has entered into agreements with oil companies involving data licensing (late sales) related to 3D CSEM data from the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea library. According to EMGS, the agreements for the data library represents revenues of approximately $3.5 million. This is the third announcement regarding 3D EM data licensing in quick […]

  • Norway: NPD Announces Management Reorganisation

    17 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    Minor adjustments have been implemented in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s (NPD’s) organisation and management structure. The changes entail that Johannes Kjøde will assume the function of deputy director general. Tomas Mørch has been appointed as a new director. The NPD is a flat, team-based organisation with around 200 employees led by director general Bente Nyland. […]

  • Statoil picks up drilling permit for exploration well off Norway

    26 July 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for well 6407/7-9 S, located in the Norwegian Sea.  The well will be drilled from Songa Offshore’s Songa Delta semi-sub drilling rig. The oil company received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to drill the will with the […]

  • Transocean rig gearing up to spud Barents Sea wildcat in April

    11 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Equinor has secured a drilling permit with Norway’s authorities to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea with one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs.

  • Minor gas and oil find for Aker BP

    12 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has made a minor gas and oil discovery in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Cyprus: SeaBird Provides OBN Contract Update

    4 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      SeaBird Exploration PLC provides a contract update regarding its business activities as set out below; Immediately following completion of the Rosebank second stage survey for Chevron North Sea Limited and Partners expected mid August, a contract has been signed for the Hugin Explorer and Munin Explorer to carry out a 4C NODE survey of […]

  • Wintershall Spuds Mjøsa Exploration Well

    15 April 2013

    Bridge, the Oslo Børs and AIM listed oil and gas exploration and production company has announced that the drilling of exploration well 6406/6-3 has started. The well will target the Mjøsa gas prospect, which is located 10 km northeast of the Linnorm discovery within the Haltenbanken Area of the Norwegian Sea. The well is being […]

  • Statoil to use Transocean Leader for Njord field well plugging

    23 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has received consent to use the Transocean Leader semi-submersible drilling rig for permanent plugging of well 6407/7-3 on the Njord field. Njord is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea, around 30 km west of Draugen, in approximately 330 metres of water. Njord has been developed using a steel semi-submersible drilling, accommodation and production facility. […]

  • DeepOcean scoops riser installation work from Statoil

    10 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production

    DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has been awarded the Riser Installation contract for the Kristin and Heidrun platforms, located in the Norwegian Sea, by Statoil. The modification of these platforms is required in preparation of a possible tie-back from the near-by Maria-development in the Norwegian Sea that is operated by Wintershall. […]

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    13 April 2014

    Read the most popular articles of the week. New platforms, drillships, oil and gas discoveries, big contracts, etc.

  • Lundin spinning drill bit at Lorry (Norway)

    13 November 2015

    Swedish operator Lundin Petroleum has started drilling an exploration well on the Lorry prospect, offshore Norway. The well 6407/10-4 will explore the Lorry prospect in PL700, located on the northern part of the Frøya High in the Norwegian Sea, some 17 kilometers northeast of VNG Norge operated Pil and Bue discoveries in the Halten Terrace. […]

  • Tullow Completes Spring Energy Acquisition. Secures New Licences Off Norway

    22 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Tullow Oil plc (“Tullow”) announces the completion of its acquisition of Spring Energy Norway AS (“Spring”) that was previously announced on 11 December 2012. Roar Tessem, Spring’s CEO, will be Managing Director of Tullow’s Norwegian companies and will have responsibility for Tullow’s assets offshore Norway and Greenland. This acquisition has already brought success for Tullow. […]

  • Floatel Superior Evacuation Completed, Statoil Says

    7 November 2012

      Statoil has announced that all personnel apart from security staff have now been evacuated from Floatel Superior, after the accommodation rig tilted this morning due to a hole in the ballast tank. Three helicopters have been operating a shuttle service between the rig and Njord A facility in the Norwegian Sea. After landing on […]