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  • Det norske buys Svenska’s Norwegian subsidiary

    14 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Det norske oljeselskap ASA, a Norwegian independent oil company, will acquire Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB’s Norwegian Subsidiary for $75 million. A privately held Swedish company’s subsidiary, Svenska Petroleum Exploration AS, has 15 employees in Norway, of which all will be transferred to Det norske. Svenska holds 13 licenses in Norway, including the Krafla/Askja (25%), Garantiana […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • North Energy: Well Spudded on Jette in PL 385 Off Norway

    23 October 2012
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Exploration drilling on the Jette gas and condensate prospect in production licence 385 began on 21 October in the Norwegian Sea. Located 16 kilometres north-west of the Norne production ship, this prospect is roughly 209 kilometres from Brønnøysund in northern Norway. The 6607/12-3 well is being drilled by the West Alpha rig to a total […]

  • Mediterranean gig for PGS

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

    Oslo-headquartered seismic company PGS has secured a 3D exploration acquisition contract in the Mediterranean with an undisclosed company. Seismic vessel Ramform Hyperion is in charge of carrying out the work and is set to mobilize for the survey late in the third quarter of 2023. According to PGS, the program has a total duration of approximately 70 […]

  • Centrica: First well to be drilled in PL 528 B (Norway)

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Centrica Resources (Norge) AS a drilling permit for wellbore 6707/10-3, in the Norwegian Sea. Wellbore 6707/10-3 will be drilled from the West Navigator drillship. The drilling programme for wellbore 6707/10-3 relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 528 B. Centrica Resources (Norge) AS is the […]

  • Bridge Awarded Licence in Block 6407/4 Off Mid-Norway

    16 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Bridge, the Oslo Børs and AIM listed oil and gas exploration and production company,  announces the press release by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy confirming that Bridge has been awarded a licence with 40% interest and operatorship in block 6407/4 off Mid-Norway in the 2012 Norwegian APA licensing round, together with the partners […]

  • Lundin Suspends Albert Drilling Until August (Norway)

    14 June 2012

    Lundin Petroleum  announces that drilling of exploration well 6201/11-3 in PL519 targeting the Albert offshore prospect has been temporarily suspended until August. The Bredford Dolphin drilling rig is moving to a Norwegian yard to complete its five year renewal survey before returning to complete the Albert exploration well. Lundin Petroleum originally anticipated that the well […]

  • E.ON receives nod for wildcat well drilling

    29 June 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted E.ON E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6507/3-11 S, in the Norwegian Sea.  According to the NPD, well 6507/3-11 S will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 6507/3-11 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production […]

  • Van Oord: Subsea Rock Installation World Record

    14 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    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 meters. The Subsea Rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Aasta Hansteen gas field and Polarled pipeline in the Norwegian Sea. Van Oord […]

  • DeepOcean Wins Troll C Work

    4 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    DeepOcean has been awarded an engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation (EPCI) contract for wear protection on the risers at the Troll C platform in the Norwegian Sea. The award covers, in addition to installation, the design, engineering, procurement and fabrication of the wear protection solution for the risers on the Troll C platform. The onshore […]

  • PSA Greenlights Åsgard Pipelines and Subsea Production Facilities

    11 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use pipelines and subsea production facilities on the Åsgard field. Statoil is the operator of Åsgard in the central Norwegian Sea, in 200-300 metres of water. Åsgard comprises finds 6506/12-1 Smørbukk, 6506/12-3 Smørbukk Sør and 6507/11-1 Midgard. The field has been developed using […]

  • Maersk Oil abandons Twillingen South well

    20 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Maersk Oil has decided to plug and abandon exploration well 6406/6-4 in the PL 510 licence, in the Norwegian Sea. According to North Energy, a partner in the licence, the decision follows a period of difficulties in a liner setting covering the intermediate part of the well, named the Tvillingen South. The semi-submersible drilling rig, Leiv Eiriksson, […]

  • Gate set for Hammerfest LNG cargo

    22 May 2015
    Vessels

    Dutch Gate LNG terminal in the port of Rotterdam is about to receive a cargo of the chilled gas from Statoil’s Hammerfest plant in Norway.

  • Wintershall’s Maria field work goes to FMC Technologies

    7 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Wintershall, Germany’s oil and gas producer, has announced the award of its first significant subsea contract for its Norwegian activities.   Worth approximately NOK 1.8 billion ($280 million), the contract for Wintershall’s Maria development goes to FMC Technologies’ Norwegian subsidiary FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS. The company said it has been assigned after a thorough selection […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • With drilling campaign all done, Neptune gearing up for Norwegian field start-up

    25 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    In preparation for production start-up, Neptune Energy ha completed drilling four development wells on the Fenja field in the Norwegian Sea.

  • 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. […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]