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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Statoil’s Norne field celebrates two decades of production

    6 November 2017

    The Norne field in the Norwegian Sea, operated by the oil giant Statoil, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary of production. Production from the Norne field began on November 6, 1997, although the award of the Norne license dates back to over a decade earlier. Statoil’s initial development plans called for the field to be shut […]

  • Subsea 7 lands more work from Aker BP

    15 December 2017
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7 has been awarded contracts by Aker BP for the Skogul and the Valhall Flank West projects in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • No Portrush oil for Shell

    11 September 2015

    Shell has completed drilling at its Portrush exploration well offshore Norway, Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the block has informed. No oil was found. According to Faroe Petroleum, the objective section in the Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Rogn and Melke formations) was encountered with a thickness of about 330 metres, and whilst 134 metres was […]

  • Odfjell Drilling confirms another drilling job for semi-sub rig

    1 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling has confirmed a new contract for a rig it manages on behalf of CIMC Offshore.

  • Norway: Great Interest in the 21st Licensing Round

    5 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    When the application deadline for the 21st licensing round on the Norwegian shelf expired on 3 November, 37 companies had submitted applications. Director of Exploration Sissel Eriksen in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate is very pleased that companies still consider the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea to be interesting exploration areas. “The interest shown by […]

  • VIDEO: Hyundai Heavy lifts Aasta Hansteen LQ onto topside

    28 January 2016

    Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil shared a video of Aasta Hansteen living quarters being lifted onto the topside. The lifting took place January 9, 2016, in Ulsan, South Korea, where the platform is currently being constructed by Hyundai Heavy Industries. The Aasta Hansteen living quarters were completed in early November 2015 in the Netherlands by CKT, a Dutch […]

  • Atlantic Petroleum, Rocksource Enter Farm-In Deal

    2 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    P/F Atlantic Petroleum announces that the Group has entered into a farm-in option agreement with Rocksource ASA regarding the PL528 licence in the Norwegian Sea. Through the farm-in option agreement, Atlantic Petroleum shall purchase five percent (5%) and has an option to purchase up to fifteen percent of the participating interest in PL528. Atlantic Petroleum […]

  • 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 […]

  • COSL Drilling hands out multi-million assignment to Odfjell Technology

    17 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The UK’s Odfjell Technology has inked a long-term deal for the provision of tubular running services with COSL Drilling Europe.

  • All-systems-go for Transocean rig to spin the drill bit in North Sea

    23 January 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    OMV has received a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for a wildcat well in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, enabling it to undertake drilling activities next month with a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean, an offshore drilling contractor.

  • Norway: Trelleborg Insulation for Asgard Subsea Gas Compression Facility

    21 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Trelleborg Offshore & Construction has been awarded a contract to provide Aker Solutions with high performance subsea insulation. The insulation is for use on the Asgard Subsea Compression Project for Statoil – the world’s first ever subsea gas compression facility. Trelleborg’s innovative Vikotherm II insulation material will be used on 600 meters of piping, forming […]

  • Wintershall Dea curbs Dvalin gas flows over mercury issues

    21 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Wintershall Dea has decided to postpone the commercial gas production from its Dvalin field due to a high level of mercury in the gas flow.

  • Rising Costs Terminate Kristin Gas Export Project

    9 January 2014

     Norwegian oil giant Statoil has announced that the Kristin gas export project (KGEP) partners today made a decision to terminate the project due to unsustainable economics caused by increased investment costs and increased risk to volume availability. The Kristin gas export project (KGEP) – a pipeline connection between the Kristin field and Polarled – was […]

  • Offshore safety body takes a look at COSLPromoter rig yet again

    10 November 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found eight non-conformities and two improvement points during an audit of the COSLPromoter drilling rig.

  • Centrica delays Fogelberg development plan for 2019

    27 February 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Centrica has chosen a subsea connection to the nearby Åsgard B processing platform for the development of its Fogelberg discovery off Norway but postponed the submission of the development plan for 2019. According to a Monday report by the Norwegian news website Petro.no, Centrica has postponed the deadline for the submission of the Fogelberg development plan, […]

  • Aker BP obtains safety consents for vessel operations in Norway

    30 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has received two consents from the country’s offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority.

  • Faroe Wraps Up Sale of Interest in Fenja Field to Suncor

    17 May 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Faroe Petroleum has completed the sale of its 17.5% working interest in the Fenja development located in PL586 in the Norwegian Sea to Suncor Energy Norge. Following the sale, Faroe retains a 7.5% working interest in the field. The cash consideration received by Faroe for the sale of the Fenja interest is $68 million, reflecting […]

  • Shell to commission two new subsea wells on Draugen

    29 April 2016

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has granted its approval to the oil giant Shell to use two subsea wells on the Draugen field, offshore Norway.  Shell is the operator of the Draugen oil field at Haltenbanken located in block 6407/12 in the Norwegian Sea, around 150 kilometres north of Kristiansund. Production from the […]

  • 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 […]

  • NPD: Norway’s Recoverable Resources Increased

    1 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s (NPD’s) resource account shows that the total recoverable petroleum resources are estimated at 13.6 billion standard cubic meters of oil equivalents (scm o.e.). New areas for southeastern Barents Sea and Jan Mayen are not included in the petroleum resource account with updated figures as of 31.12.2012. The main trends in the […]

  • TGS launches first seismic survey of 2017. Awards 3D work to Polarcus and Shearwater

    19 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    TGS, a marine seismic data acquisition specialist, has announced its first multi-client acquisition project in 2017, the AM17 Atlantic Margin 3D in the Norwegian Sea. TGS said on Thursday that the AM17 40,000 square kilometer project in the central-southern Norwegian Sea is the single largest 3D survey carried out by any company in Northern Europe, which […]