10000 results found for 'Norwegian Sea'

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  • Ocean Infinity puts Vard on multi-purpose robotic vessel quartet construction duty

    12 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Vard, the Norwegian shipbuilding subsidiary of Italy’s Fincantieri Group, has been hired to build four new multi-purpose robotic vessels (MPVs) for Ocean Infinity, a Houston-based marine robotics company.

  • 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.

  • Upping green shipping ante: First newbuild vessel to run on Wärtsilä’s ammonia engine

    27 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Transition, Vessels

    Wärtsilä has found a first home for its ammonia engine, which will power a new cargo vessel in Norway-based Skarv Shipping Solutions’ fleet, advancing the ship’s decarbonization arsenal and enriching the maritime industry’s green toolbox.

  • OKEA strikes oil at North Sea license

    25 August 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Norway’s oil and gas company OKEA has made oil discoveries at a production license it operates in the North Sea.

  • Gasum’s FuelEU Maritime pool another vessel richer as Tallink turns to bio-LNG

    1 December 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels

    Gasum, a Nordic gas sector and energy market player, has struck a pooling and liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) deal with Elenger, said to be the largest privately owned energy company in the Baltic-Finnish region and Tallink’s fuel provider. This enables a shuttle vessel to run on bio-LNG and yield additional compliance surplus for Gasum’s FuelEU Maritime pool.

  • Green light for $1.8 billion oil redevelopment in Norwegian waters

    16 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    ConocoPhillips, and its partners, Vår Energi, Orlen Upstream Norway, and Petoro, have sanctioned a project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) that aims to extend the life of the Greater Ekofisk Area (GEA) through the redevelopment of previously produced fields (PPF) to enhance production capabilities and ensure long-term value creation off the coast of Norway. 

  • Saipem wraps up pipeline installation for Equinor’s Irpa field (Video)

    28 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Vessels

    The pipelaying vessel Castorone, operated by Italian oilfield services provider Saipem, has completed the installation of an approximately 80-kilometer pipeline linking the Aasta Hansteen platform to Equinor’s new subsea tieback field, Irpa, formerly known as Asterix. The Irpa field, located at a depth of 1,350 meters, is said to be the deepest field development on […]

  • Chevron, Höegh Evi, SLB, and Energean helping Egypt expand energy horizons to fuel its future

    15 September 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Given the ongoing global energy security concerns, Egypt has taken further steps to deepen energy alliances with international players, including Chevron, Hoegh Evi, SLB, and Energean. These and similar undertakings are paving the way to boost exploration, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and sustainability efforts.

  • Round-up: New oil & gas discoveries take center stage as LNG momentum grows

    5 December 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Certification & Classification, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    As the offshore energy sector sees advancements in exploration, infrastructure expansion, LNG diversification, and carbon management initiatives, new discoveries in Norway reinforce the ongoing oil and gas dominance. International players, such as Shell, Equinor, Chevron, and Petrobras are reshaping portfolios through joint ventures, divestments, and capex commitments.

  • Go-ahead for Noble rig to spud North Sea hydrocarbon prospect this month

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

    DNO Norge, a subsidiary of Norwegian oil and gas player DNO, has secured a drilling permit, which will enable it to drill a well in the North Sea off the coast of Norway with a rig owned by Noble Corporation, a U.S.-headquartered offshore drilling giant.

  • Equinor’s ‘largest international asset’ starts producing oil off Brazil

    16 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor and its partners have achieved start-up of production from a large field in Brazil’s Santos Basin.

  • 2012-built rig in digital era pursuit as Island Drilling awards five-year gig to Tampnet

    21 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, IT & Software, Project & Tenders, Technology

    With digitalization spreading its wings across offshore operations, Norway’s offshore drilling contractor Island Drilling has handed out a multi-year deal to Tampnet, a compatriot provider of offshore high-capacity and low-latency connectivity services, to enhance the digital capabilities of its semi-submersible rig ahead of its upcoming assignment in the North Sea.

  • Seacontractors adding two ex-DOF vessels to its fleet

    14 August 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    The Netherlands-headquartered maritime service provider Seacontractors has acquired two vessels formerly owned by Norwegian vessel owner DOF Group.

  • Northern Lights: Third and fourth LNG-fueled LCO2 carriers see first light of day

    21 August 2025
    Transition, Vessels

    China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC), part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), has launched two new liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) carriers built for Northern Lights, a joint venture (JV) between energy players Shell, Equinor and TotalEnergies. As revealed by Northern Lights in a social media post, the two new ships that were launched from the […]

  • Northern Lights’ fleet expansion quest bringing to life four new CO2 vessels

    29 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Vessels

    Northern Lights, a joint venture (JV) encompassing three European oil majors: Shell, Equinor, and TotalEnergies, has taken steps to enrich its fleet with four more carbon dioxide (CO2) vessels through charter deals with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and a consortium between Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) and MISC.  

  • All-systems-go for Odfjell Drilling-managed rig’s North Sea assignment

    12 August 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor, a Norwegian state-owned energy giant, has received the go-ahead from the country’s authorities to undertake plug and abandonment (P&A) activities in the North Sea off the coast of Norway with a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.

  • TGS, BGP, Staatsolie embark on seismic survey to map oil & gas deposits in shallow waters

    8 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Research & Development

    Norwegian/American energy data and intelligence player, Tomlinson Geophysical Services (TGS), has kicked off a seismic survey in the shallow offshore area off the coast of Saramacca and Coronie to find oil and gas reserves as part of a joint project with Suriname’s national oil company (NOC) Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), the Chinese Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting (BGP Offshore). 

  • Noble scores $1.3 billion in rig deals and enters Norway’s floater drilling scene

    26 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    U.S.-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has picked up new assignments for nine drilling rigs in its fleet, including a job for one of its semi-submersible units, which enables it to make its entrance into the Norwegian harsh environment floater market.

  • Norway eyes oil & gas investments of nearly $23 billion next year

    14 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Statistics Norway, the Norwegian statistics bureau, has revealed a spike in estimates for oil and gas investments in 2026, which are anticipated to hit NOK 230 billion (approximately $22.55 billion), thanks to higher price estimates in the production drilling segment.

  • Norway’s northernmost oil field formally inaugurated

    8 August 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland has officially opened a field offshore Norway operated by the country’s state-owned energy giant Equinor.

  • Vår Energi’s North Sea FPSO sporting digital connectivity solution in ‘global first’

    11 August 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Technology

    Tampnet, a Norway-headquartered provider of offshore high-capacity and low-latency connectivity services, is deploying its technology on a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit operated by Norway’s Vår Energi in the North Sea.

  • USV in action for TotalEnergies offshore Norway

    20 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Vessels, Vision

    Norway’s Reach Subsea has performed a subsea inspection campaign at TotalEnergies’ fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) using its Reach Remote 1 uncrewed surface vessel (USV). The annual inspection of subsea production systems and Xmas trees also included integrity checks, assessment of anode status, and seabed condition surveys at the Skirne, Byggve, and Atla […]

  • Egypt, Japan set sights on green marine fuels and industrial cooperation

    20 August 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Transition

    The General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) has held talks with officials from both the private and public sectors in Japan to discuss establishing a new industrial zone and to facilitate cooperation in green fuels bunkering. As disclosed, the parties held talks during a recent event held in Tokyo, which was attended […]

  • OMV’s Norwegian wildcat ends up being dry

    16 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of Austria-headquartered oil and gas player OMV, has drilled a dry well off the coast of Norway, using a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.

  • Equinor gearing up to spud Barents Sea wildcat with COSL rig

    7 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has obtained the all-clear from the Norwegian authorities for drilling activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), which will be undertaken with a semi-submersible rig owned by COSL Drilling Europe, an offshore drilling contractor.