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  • Norway doubles oil and gas resources estimate for Barents Sea

    26 April 2017

    The undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Barents Sea are twice as large as previously assumed, according to new calculations by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), Norway’s petroleum resources regulator.  The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has recently mapped the eastern part of the northern Barents Sea – an area of about 170,000 square kilometers, 10,000 square […]

  • Island Offshore vessel duo cleared to work on two North Sea fields

    30 January 2018

    Statoil has received consent from the PSA to use two Island Offshore-owned vessels for well intervention at two North Sea fields.

  • Hertel Offshore to Construct LQs for Aasta Hansteen Platform

    29 April 2013

    Hertel Offshore has signed a €70 million contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries for the engineering, design and construction (EPC) of the new accommodation for Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen platform, which will be deployed in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea.  This is another big Norwegian contract for Hertel Offshore and follows on from the award […]

  • Equinor brings online first of five oil & gas tie-backs to existing platform offshore Norway

    8 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has started production from the first well in its planned five-well project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), being developed as a tie-back to an existing offshore platform in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Second North Sea discovery in four months for Neptune

    26 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has made a minor oil discovery near its operated Gjøa field in the North Sea off Norway.

  • NPD’s Interactive CO2 storage atlas

    12 February 2015
    Equipment

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has produced two interactive versions of the atlas of potential CO2 storage sites in the sea areas off the Norwegian coast. One of them has been integrated with the NPD’s ordinary fact map, and thus provides access to much more information than is the case for the printed versions. Users can […]

  • Statoil Awards Polarled Pipeline Contracts Worth $722 Mln (Norway)

    18 February 2013

      Statoil has awarded Marubeni Itochu/JFE contracts for fabricating linepipe for the Polarled pipeline, Wasco for applying coating, and Allsea for pipelaying. The coating contract include the establishement of a new production base in Mo i Rana, Northern Norway.Estimated contract value for the three contracts in total is NOK 4 billion. The contracts are awarded […]

  • Neptune preparing for busy year ahead with more wells added to Odfjell rig

    22 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Neptune Energy has extended a contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai rig to include additional wells in the North Sea next year.

  • Statoil Makes Minor Gas Discovery Off Norway

    25 August 2017

    Statoil has made a minor gas discovery about 9 kilometers northeast of the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea and about 270 kilometers southwest of Sandnessjøen. According to Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), Statoil, the operator of production licence 124, is about to complete the drilling of wildcat well 6507/8-9. The primary exploration target for the well […]

  • VNG in minor oil discovery in Boomerang well

    17 September 2015
    Exploration & Production

    VNG Norge AS has found oil in the Boomerang  exploration well, located in production licence 586, in the southern Norwegian Sea. VNG Norge AS, operator of the production licence, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat wells 6406/12-4 S and 6406/12-4 A. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), well 6406/12-4 S was […]

  • ‘Deepsea Bergen’ Rig to Undergo Modification at CCB

    26 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    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 […]

  • Forsys wins subsea FEED for Statoil’s Trestakk field

    15 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Forsys Subsea, the joint venture between FMC Technologies and Technip, has been awarded a contract from Statoil to provide a subsea front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for subsea tie-back of Trestakk field to Åsgard A FPSO, located in the Norwegian Sea.  According to Forsys, the scope of work includes all systems and related services from […]

  • Statoil to Use Scarabeo 5 on Kristin Field Drilling Ops, Norway

    3 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has received consent to use the Scarabeo 5 mobile drilling rig for recompletion of production well 6406/2-S-1 in the Kristin field. Kristin is a gas/condensate field in the Norwegian Sea, WNW of Namsos and about 17 km SW of the Åsgard A facility. The field has been developed using subsea facilities and a semi-submersible […]

  • Statoil awards Polarled pipelay surveillance contract to DNV GL

    18 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    DNV GL, a Norwegian technical advisor to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded an offshore pipelay surveillance contract by Statoil. The company said that the contract is for monitoring quality assurance throughout the Polarled pipeline installation campaign. Statoil is installing the 480km long Polarled gas pipeline that will have capacity of 70 million cubic […]

  • Norwegian operator buys out Faroe shareholding from Israeli group

    4 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO ASA has agreed to acquire a 15.37 percent of the share capital of Faroe Petroleum from Israeli Delek Group.

  • Norway: Statoil Submits Fast-Track Development Plan for Hyme

    12 May 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) for Hyme (formerly Gygrid) in the Norwegian Sea to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE). First oil is scheduled for the first quarter of 2013. The Hyme PDO is the fourth fast-track development plan submitted to the MPE this year. Statoil has previously submitted […]

  • Equinor and Petoro swap assets in Norwegian waters

    14 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has struck a value-neutral asset swap deal with Petoro, a compatriot player, to harmonize equity interests on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • TechnipFMC, Subsea 7 scoop Pil & Bue awards

    6 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas company VNG Norge has awarded Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contracts for its Pil & Bue development in the Norwegian Sea to Subsea 7, TechnipFMC, and Aker Solutions.  The selected concept for the VNG-operated offshore development is a subsea tie-back to the Njord A platform. VNG started the FEED studies in February. As […]

  • PGS’s Ramform Tethys Sets New Towing Record

    9 June 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    PGS’s Ramform Tethys, currently working on its maiden project, a multi-client survey over the Aasta Hansteen area in the Norwegian Sea, has achieved a new world towing record, the company informed. The Ramform Tethys is towing a configuration of 16 streamers, each 8.1 km long, with streamer separation of 75 meters. The vessel is carrying out a 3D seismic data acquisition with, what […]

  • Wintershall Starts Maria Discovery Appraisal (Norway)

    1 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Wintershall, the largest German crude oil and natural gas producer with operations worldwide, today spudded the Maria appraisal well in the Norwegian Sea. The Maria offshore discovery, which is estimated to contain between 60 and 120 million barrels of recoverable oil and between 2 and 5 billion standard cubic meters (sm3) of recoverable gas, is […]

  • New shallow gas discovery prompts suspension of drilling ops

    17 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has found shallow gas during drilling activities with an Odfjell Drilling-owned semi-submersible rig at a well in the Norwegian Sea off the coast of Norway.

  • Odfjell Drilling wins rig contract at Wintershall’s Maria field

    7 September 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian drilling company Odfjell Drilling has won a drilling rig contract from Wintershall Norge AS, as part of the recently approved Maria field development in the Norwegian Sea. Under the agreement, Odfjell Drilling will provide the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Stavanger for the drilling of production wells on the Maria field. The firm contract is […]

  • Subsea 7 Establishes Tromsø Base (Norway)

    17 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 is to establish a new office in northern Norway, in Tromsø. Following its award for the pipelay and subsea installation contract for Statoil’s pioneering Aasta Hansteen project earlier this year, Subsea 7 sees increasing activity in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. With an office in Tromsø, the company will have a solid […]

  • Subsea 7 Establishes New Office in Tromsø, Norway

    17 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Subsea 7 is to establish a new office in northern Norway, in Tromsø. Following its award for the pipelay and subsea installation contract for Statoil’s pioneering Aasta Hansteen project earlier this year, Subsea 7 sees increasing activity in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. With an office in Tromsø, the company will have a […]

  • Shell sanctions Norwegian subsea compression project

    21 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation

    Shell has sanctioned its Ormen Lange wet gas subsea compression project in Norway and filed its development plan to the authorities.