10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Dry well for Wintershall in North Sea (Norway)

    18 June 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 378, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 35/12-5 S, in the Norwegian North Sea. The well is dry.  The well was drilled about 15 km southwest of the Gjøa field in the Norwegian North Sea and 80 kilometres southwest of Florø, Norway. According to the Norwegian Petroleum […]

  • With new acquisition, Vår Energi bolsters its CCS exploration efforts

    11 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Project & Tenders

    Vår Energi has acquired Feistein CCS, which is a company focused on maturing large-scale, cost-efficient CO2 storage opportunities.

  • Shell hits dust near Knarr

    9 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Oil major Shell has completed the drilling of a wildcat well near the Knarr field in the North Sea. The well is dry.

  • PSA Inspects Norne Field Subsea Facilities

    31 January 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has inspected Statoil’s operation of subsea facilities and leak detection systems on the Norne field. The audit of the Norne field, located in the Norwegian Sea blocks 6608/10 and 6608/11, was conducted in collaboration with the Norwegian Environment Agency. The objective of the audit was to gain an overview of how […]

  • Norway: Statoil Hires Technip for Luva Field Development

    8 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Technip was awarded a lump sum front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Statoil ASA for the development of the Luva floating platform, offshore Norway, at a water depth of approximately 1,300 meters (4,265 feet). The contract covers the design and planning for procurement, construction and transportation of a Spar(1) hull and the mooring systems as […]

  • Centrica Delays Fogelberg PDO

    27 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Following the selection of the subsea connection to Åsgard B platform as the development concept for Fogelberg discovery, Centrica and its partners informed that the submission of plan for development and operation (PDO) will be delayed until June 2019. The previously expected date for the submission was in 2018. “I can confirm that the deadline for […]

  • PGS to survey Aasta Hansteen area in May

    7 April 2016

    Norwegian marine geophysical company, PGS, has informed it will cover Aasta Hansteen area, in the Norwegian Sea, in 2016.  In May 2016, PGS will start acquisition of a new 4 400 sq. km 3D GeoStreamer survey over the Aasta Hansteen area. The survey is scheduled to be completed in August 2016. Fast track data will […]

  • Equinor picks up drilling permit for Ragnfrid Nord prospect

    24 August 2018
    Exploration & Production

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

  • Equinor all set to deploy Transocean rig at North Sea field

    20 January 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor has received consent from Norway’s regulator to use one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs at a field in the North Sea.

  • Wintershall Dea’s appraisal well corroborates size of oil & gas discoveries, pushing them closer to development stage

    13 December 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Wintershall Dea has completed the drilling of an appraisal well in the Norwegian Sea, using one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs.

  • More North Sea work for Deepsea Yantai rig

    19 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    OMV Norge has contracted the Deepsea Yantai semi-submersible rig for drilling operations in the North Sea.

  • Statoil set to drill Cape Vulture exploration well

    3 November 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Statoil its consent to use the Deepsea Bergen rig for exploration well drilling in block 6608/10 in the Norwegian Sea. PSA said on Thursday that the exploration well would be drilled in a prospect named Cape Vulture, with the designation 6608/10-17 S. The consent also has an […]

  • Offshore watchdog looks into structural safety at ‘COSLPromoter’

    29 May 2017
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found an improvement point during an audit of the COSLPromoter semi-submersible drilling rig.  The PSA said on Monday that the audit of the rig was done in the domain of structural safety. The safety body said that the audit, conducted on April 27 and […]

  • Wintershall expects higher resources from Maria

    18 December 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Germany’s Wintershall has announced updated, higher recoverable resource estimates for its operated Maria Field, located in the Norwegian Sea.  Wintershall estimates that the planned technical recoverable resources will reach about 180 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe). According to Wintershall, this means that the estimate has increased by about 40 million boe (previously 140 million […]

  • OKEA takes operatorship of license near Draugen field

    22 March 2019

    Norwegian oil and gas company OKEA has taken over Shell’s 50% working interest and operatorship of production license (PL) 958 in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Norway: Advanced Trawler Ship Design by Skipsteknisk

    20 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    A Norwegian fisheries company Ytterstad, based in Lødingen, has ordered a new flagship. The main function of the ship is to purse seining and pelagic trawling. The ship will have a length of 75 m, a width of 15.40 m and a tank capacity of 2100 m3. This advanced type of ship is developed by […]

  • Equinor Starts Up Snefrid Nord

    4 September 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Equinor has started production from the Snefrid Nord gas field, the first discovery tied back to the Norwegian Sea Aasta Hansteen field.  Recoverable resources for Snefrid Nord are estimated at 4.4 billion standard cubic meters of gas (27,5 million barrels oil equivalents) and some condensate. This will extend plateau production from Aasta Hansteen by almost […]

  • Stamp of approval for ConocoPhillips to drill North Sea wildcat

    28 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    ConocoPhillips has secured a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for a wildcat well located in the North Sea offshore Norway.

  • Gassco Completes Upkeep of NCS Gas Facilities

    3 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Gassco, a Norwegian operator of gas pipes transporting natural gas from the Norwegian Continental Shelf to Continental Europe and Great Britain, said it has completed an extensive programme for maintaining facilities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). “This year’s maintenance operations involved a number of demanding activities,” reports Kristin Kinn Kaste, senior vice president for […]

  • Statoil applies for new acreage offshore Norway

    3 December 2015

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has delivered its application for the 23rd licensing round on the Norwegian continental shelf to the Norwegian authorities. The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy is expected to announce the awards late first half of 2016. The round represents the first opening of new acreage on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) since 1994. […]

  • VIDEO: Heidrun B FSU on its way to Norway

    21 April 2015

    Statoil has released a video of its Heidrun B floating and storage unit (FSU) that left South Korea in March 2015, heading for Norway. Statoil ordered the vessel from Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea in 2012. The vessel was built at the world’s second-largest shipyard in Geoje Island, Republic of Korea. The new FSU will be […]

  • PSA audits risk management on COSLPromoter

    29 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Between 24 June and 3 July 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of COSL Drilling Europe A/S and the company’s operations using the COSLPromoter semi-submersible drilling rig. The objective of the activity was to monitor that CDE has implemented a system to fulfil the regulatory requirements for risk management. One […]

  • Subsea 7 bags EPCI contract in Middle East

    14 July 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Subsea 7 has secured an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract with an undisclosed client in the Middle East.

  • DeepOcean clinches riser replacement gig with Statoil

    2 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    DeepOcean has been awarded a contract by Statoil for performing riser replacement and construction work in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea.

  • GALLERY: Aasta Hansteen topside ready to set sail for Norway

    26 September 2017

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has shared a photo of the Aasta Hansteen topside loaded up on a heavy transport vessel which will take it to Norway. Statoil said that “the beautiful lady” weighing 24,000 tons would begin its two-month-long journey from Hyundai’s shipyard in South Korea to Norway “in the next few days.” The topside […]