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  • 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 […]

  • Norway: 47 Companies Apply for Acreage in APA 2012

    9 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Norwegian authorities on Friday received all the applications for Awards in Predefined Areas 2012 (APA 2012). A preliminary count indicates that 47 companies have applied for acreage. This result shows that there is still considerable interest in new acreage and previously awarded and explored areas in predefined areas in the North Sea, the Norwegian […]

  • 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).

  • Lundin Makes Minor Oil Discovery Near Snøhvit Field (Norway)

    26 November 2012

    Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 490, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7120/6-3 S in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The well was drilled about 10 kilometres northwest of the Snøhvit field. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Early Cretaceous and Late Jurassic Ages […]

  • Wintershall Encounters Gas Offshore Norway

    21 June 2013

    Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 511, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6406/6-3  in the Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled about 25 kilometres south of the Tyrihans field and about 15 kilometres northeast of the 6406/9-1 Linnorm discovery. The primary and secondary exploration targets for the well were to prove petroleum […]

  • OneSubsea Bags Subsea Compression Deal for Ormen Lange

    1 November 2019
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    OneSubsea, a division of Schlumberger, has secured an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) frame agreement from A/S Norske Shell to supply a subsea multiphase compression system for the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea. Through the EPCI contract, OneSubsea and its Subsea Integration Alliance partner Subsea 7 will supply and install a subsea multiphase […]

  • 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.

  • Ops Setback for SeaBird

    30 July 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Oslo-listed seismic player SeaBird said it will experience delays on two surveys previously secured in West Africa and the Americas. Namely, the 3D survey in West Africa was initially expected to be completed early in Q3 2019 utilizing the Nordic Explorer and is now estimated to be completed in the latter part of Q3. The […]

  • Neptune kicks off production from oil & gas field off Norway

    28 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Neptune Energy has brought on stream an oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea off Norway, which has been tied back to Equinor’s platform.

  • Nexans Supplies Umbilicals for Statoil’s Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen Gas Project

    19 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has been awarded an 8 million Euro contract by Statoil to supply the static umbilicals for the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen project in the Norwegian North Sea. This is the fourth Statoil project in quick succession to feature the new standardized fast-track umbilical design developed by Nexans and follows […]

  • Neptune gets green light for two North Sea projects

    26 June 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Neptune Energy has confirmed that its development plans for the Duva (PL636) and Gjøa P1 (PL153) projects in the North Sea have been approved by Norwegian authorities.

  • Statoil wins highest number of exploration licences in Norway in ten years

    20 January 2016

    In the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) round 2015, Statoil has been awarded interest in 24 licences on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), 13 of those as operator and 11 as partner. According to Statoil, this is the highest number of licences awarded to the company since 2005.  The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy […]

  • Wärtsilä to supply equipment for AET’s newbuild shuttle tankers

    26 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Wärtsilä has won a deal for the provision of equipment to two new shuttle tankers being built for AET Tankers by SHI in South Korea.

  • Subsea 7 bags $300M worth Maria award

    8 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 S.A. has announced the award of a contract with a value of approximately $300 million for the Maria field development by Wintershall Norge AS. The field is located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of approximately 300 metres. The pipeline and subsea construction contract consists of engineering, procurement, construction and installation […]

  • Statoil hires six anchor handlers for rig moves in Norway

    13 January 2017

    Norwegian oil giant Statoil has this week hired six large anchor handlers for two Odfjell Drilling rig moves and one Saipem rig prelay. According to Westshore, a Norwegian shipbroking agency, Statoil has chartered Havila Shipping’s Havila Jupiter, Solstad’s REM Gamblers, Olympic’s Olympic Zeus, Farstad’s Far Sapphire, and K Line’s KL Saltfojrd and KL Sandefjord. As […]

  • Neptune Energy Advances Toward Cara Subsea Tieback FID

    6 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Neptune Energy and its licence partners have submitted the ‘Decision to Continue’ report for the Cara project to the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The licence partnership will now progress its technical and economic plan before making a final investment decision early in 2019. Based on the proposed plan, hydrocarbons from the Cara reservoir […]

  • Statoil to use Songa’s Cat D rig for Asgard, Heidrun ops

    27 June 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil its consent to start operations on Asgard and Heidrun fields offshore Norway using the Songa Encourage drilling rig. The PSA said the consent covers production drilling, completion, workover, intervention and plugging. According to the safety authority, planned start-up at Asgard and Heidrun is mid-July 2016 and mid-December 2016, […]

  • Norsafe to deliver lifeboat systems to Statoil’s Njord A platform

    5 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norway’s Norsafe has received orders from engineering and construction services company Kværner for the delivery of new lifeboat systems to Statoil’s Njord A platform. Norsafe said that it would supply three lifeboat systems of its largest freefall lifeboat, the GES 52, with compatible davits. The company added that the contract for the lifeboat systems was […]

  • Wintershall to operate on three new NCS licences

    21 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    In the current licensing round APA 2014, Germany’s Wintershall has been awarded eight new exploration licenses by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Wintershall will be operator on three of these licenses. Seven of the new licenses are located in the North Sea (two as operator) and one operated license in the Barents Sea. At […]

  • Neptune Energy spuds exploration well in one of its core areas off Norway

    4 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has started drilling the Calypso exploration well located in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Wintershall Assumes Control of Vega

    4 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Wintershall has taken over the operatorship of the subsea oil and gas field Vega from Statoil. Vega is the BASF subsidiary’s first operated subsea tie-in field in Norway. With this transfer Wintershall now operates two production fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Brage and Vega. The takeover of the Vega operatorship is part of the […]