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  • ‘Large’ multi-client survey to keep PGS busy well into 2024

    2 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norway’s seismic company PGS has secured industry pre-funding for what it describes is a “large” MultiClient survey in the Norwegian Sea. The survey will be acquired by a Ramform Titan-class vessel over two seasons, with mobilization for the first season expected in the second quarter of 2023. According to PGS, the survey will be completed during […]

  • Norway: Eni’s Marulk Field Comes On Stream

    2 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Eni, an Italian multinational oil and gas company has started production from the Marulk field in the Norwegian Sea,  located about 80 km from the coast. The Marulk offshore field is the first ever field that Eni has directly operated in Norway and is part of the PL122 license held by Eni (20%) with Statoil […]

  • Aibel wins M&M work for over third of Statoil’s offshore installations

    15 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Statoil, an oil and gas company, has awarded Aibel, an oil services company, a new maintenance and modification (M&M) contract worth approximately $864.4 million, plus options.  Through the new agreement, Aibel will have continued responsibility for 12 offshore installations and four facilities, and will also be responsible for Aasta Hansteen. The new contract has a duration of […]

  • Highlights of the Week

    12 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 6 – October 12).         Chiyoda Corporation, Xodus Group and Saipem International BV, a subsidiary company of Saipem Spa, have joined forces to set up a subsea engineering company named Xodus Subsea. Xodus Subsea plans to challenge the largest […]

  • Norway gets offers for offshore licences from 26 oil & gas firms amid ‘significant interest’

    14 September 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has received offers for production licences from 26 companies as part of APA 2022.

  • BP Norge Granted Expanded Consent for Usage of Borgland Dolphin

    2 June 2010

    BP Norge AS (BP) has been granted expanded consent for use of the mobile facility Borgland Dolphin on the Skarv field. The original consent, given in November 2009, includes drilling of 11 production wells and an exploration well in the period from mid-December 2009 to late April 2011. On the basis of the application from BP […]

  • South Korean Shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Inks LOI for World’s Largest Spar Hull

    18 July 2012

    Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s biggest shipbuilder and a leading offshore facilities contractor, has been awarded a Letter of Intent to construct the spar hull for a gas production platform from Statoil in a consortium with Technip on July 11th 2012. The total contract value for this project is about USD 700 million dollars. […]

  • Technip Awarded Subsea Contract Worth €90Million for Gygrid Project (Norway)

    23 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    Technip was awarded by Statoil a contract, worth approximately €90 million, for the Gygrid field development located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of 265 – 330 meters. This contract covers: * engineering, procurement, welding and installation of flowlines*, including a 19.5 kilometer pipe-in-pipe production flowline, a plastic-lined water injection flowline and a […]

  • Norway: 33 oil firms apply for APA offshore acreage

    4 September 2019

    Thirty-three oil companies have applied for offshore acreage on the Norwegian Shelf, offered as part of the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2019.

  • WATCH: Aasta Hansteen Substructure Floats Out

    11 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil is preparing for the sail away of the 200 meter long Aasta Hansteen substructure from the Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) yard in South Korea to Norway. Aasta Hansteen is the world’s largest Spar-platform, and will be the first in Norway. The substructure is 200 meters long, 50 meters in diameter and will have a dry […]

  • CCB to Upgrade Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Bergen

    26 August 2013

     Odfjell Drilling’s semi Deepsea Bergen will be berthed at the Coast Centre Base (CCB) yard in September. The rig will be modified for continued drilling services for Statoil. Odfjell Drilling has awarded CCB the contract for the yard stay for Deepsea Bergen where the rig will undergo planned client modifications for Statoil.  “The choice of […]

  • BP’s Skarv FPSO under safety authority spotlight

    1 July 2016
    Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has carried out an audit of BP Norge’s OHAS management on the Skarv floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, offshore Norway. PSA said on Friday that the audit on the Skarv FPSO was conducted from April 12 to April 15. The agency’s goal was to verify […]

  • Petroleum Safety Authority Norway Investigates Floatel Superior Incident

    8 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway demobilised its emergency response centre after the incident on Floatel Superior at 14.00 on 7 November, and will now initiate an investigation. Occurring on the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea, damage to the flotel prompted operator Statoil to evacuate a total of 336 people. The PSA stood down its […]

  • DeepOcean Installing Fiber Optic Cable for Aasta Hansteen Development

    8 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    DeepOcean UK, Ltd., a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, today announced an award from Statoil for the Aasta Hansteen fibre optic cable. The project includes procurement, installation and burial of 140km of fibre optic cable in water depths up to 1300m. The Aasta Hansteen project is the first deep water development in the Norwegian Sea and represents […]

  • Wild Well Control Boosts Subsea Containment Portfolio

    22 August 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Wild Well Control, a Superior Energy Services company, has added a new 10,000 psi-rated capping stack to its WellCONTAINED group of subsea containment equipment. The 10,000 psi-rated (10K) stack is rated to water depths of 10,000 ft, and should play a vital role in supporting quick and effective service for subsea well control events in […]

  • As oil & gas still runs Norway’s energy show, Equinor unveils up to $66 billion boost for hydrocarbons by 2035 alongside Barents Sea’s new area-wide emergency preparedness plan

    27 August 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    Equinor has set its cap on bolstering its hydrocarbon arsenal by injecting tens of billions of dollars over the next decade into the oil and gas developments on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • Wintershall to abandon Zeppelin as dry well

    15 July 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Lundin Norway AS has completed wildcat well 10/4-1 located in the North Sea offshore Norway. The well is dry.  Lundin Norway is a partner in PL734 with 30 percent working interest. The operator is Wintershall Norge AS with 40 percent working interest while Centrica Resources (Norge) AS has 30 percent working interest. The well was […]

  • Offshore safety audit reveals irregularities on Shell’s Draugen

    24 April 2018

    Norway’s PSA has found irregularities during a technical barriers management audit of Shell’s Draugen platform off Norway.

  • TechnipFMC scores Asgard subsea iEPCI

    14 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    TechnipFMC has secured an integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation (iEPCI) contract to deliver subsea equipment for Equinor’s Smørbukk Nord development. The scope covers a high-pressure, high-temperature subsea production system and associated equipment for a brownfield tieback in the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Continental Shelf, where TechnipFMC has a large installed base. The installation […]

  • ‘COSLPromoter’ under safety audit second time this year

    21 June 2017
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found two improvement points during an audit of the COSLPromoter semi-submersible drilling rig. The PSA said on Wednesday that the audit was conducted on June 7 and 8 and that it focused on the management of integrity in structures and marine systems. According to […]

  • Norway approves VNG’s Fenja field development plan

    5 April 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Søviknes on Thursday approved the Plan for Development and Operations (PDO) for the VNG Norge-operated Fenja field located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Vår Energi’s Goliat field to get network upgrade

    7 March 2019
    Equipment, Infrastructure

    Vår Energi has entered into an agreement with Telenor Maritime to equip the Goliat field in the Barents Sea with 2G and 4G networks.

  • Subsea 7 Wins Contract for Subsea Pipeline Installation Services for Ormen Lange Field (Norway)

    18 April 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a contract with A/S Norske Shell for subsea pipeline installation services for the Ormen Lange Northern Field Development – Mid North Project in the Norwegian Sea. The work is the first call-off under Subsea 7’s Frame Agreement with Shell for Pipeline Installation services in the North Sea region […]

  • ONS 2013: Exclusive Preview of ‘Pioneer’ for Ex-North Sea Divers

    16 August 2013

    PIONEER is set in the early 80’s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver is obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea.

  • Sonardyne’s Tracking Technology for German Research Vessel

    23 January 2018
    Equipment

    Sonardyne International has supplied its deep water acoustic tracking technology, Ranger 2, for the German research vessel the Maria S. Merian.  Delivered through Sonardyne’s in-country agent, Scholz Ingenieur Büro GmbH, the system was chosen as a replacement for the vessel’s existing third-party Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) acoustic equipment. Operated by the German Research Vessels Control Station […]