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  • Lotos Drills Duster in Norwegian North Sea

    8 January 2013

    LOTOS EPN AS, operator of production licence 498 in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, has completed drilling of wildcat well 7/8-6 S. The well is dry. The drilling took place 35 kilometres northwest of the Ula field in the southern part of the North Sea. The objective of the well was to prove […]

  • UK: Subsea 7 Selects Schilling Robotics’ ROVs to Support its Offshore Operations

    19 April 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Schilling Robotics, LLC, experts in subsea systems, announced today the award of new contracts for ROV systems from Subsea 7. A total of three (3) new ROV systems will be supplied for delivery in Q2 2011, including one (1) 150hp, 3,000m rated ACV ROV system and two (2) 150hp, 3,000m rated HD™ ROV systems. The […]

  • WATCH: ‘Mighty’ newbuild FPSO eating up the miles toward oil project to embark on its 30-year job

    26 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor is looking forward to the arrival of a new floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel at its oil project in the Barents Sea, where the FPSO unit will start its three-decade assignment off the coast of Norway. 

  • Statoil hires West Phoenix rig for UK and Norway campaigns

    1 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Statoil and its partners have contracted the West Phoenix rig for exploration drilling on the UK and Norwegian continental shelves from the summer of 2018.

  • Centrica to plug and abandon Butch East well

    12 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Faroe Petroleum announced that drilling has reached target depth on the Centrica-operated Butch East exploration well 8/10-5S and a subsequent up-dip appraisal well 8/10-5A, the first of two back-to back-wells in Licence PL405, following up the Butch Main discovery (Faroe 15%). The Butch East exploration well spudded on 29 December 2013 and reached total depth […]

  • Nexans Nets DEH Order from Statoil

    1 December 2014
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Statoil, on behalf of Wintershall, has signed a contract with Nexans for the supply of Direct Electrical Heating (DEH) technology. The DEH riser will connect the Kristin and Maria fields in the Norwegian Sea with the Kristin platform, ensuring the constant flow through pipelines. The delivery, worth approximately €13 million, will replace an existing DEH […]

  • Norway: PSA Brings Q&A on Activities in Northern Areas

    23 April 2012
    Business & Finance

      The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has compiled a number of general and more complex questions about the petroleum activities in the northern areas, from a health, safety and environment perspective. Here are some of the Q&A 1. Where are the northern areas? The Norwegian Government’s strategy for the northern areas states the following geographical […]

  • Aker BP kicks off production from Norwegian well three years ahead of schedule

    22 April 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Aker BP has started production from the first Ærfugl phase 2 well in the Norwegian Sea – three years ahead of the original plan.

  • PetroMarker Performs EM Surveys in Norwegian Barents Sea

    21 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    In the course of July-August 2012, PetroMarker performed a number of EM surveys in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea. More and more oil companies see the advantage of PetroMarker’s unique EM technology to evaluate prospective acreage, particularly in the Barents Sea. PetroMarker made a presentation at the EAGE conference in Vienna about the […]

  • Wintershall awards Nova work to Aker Solutions and Subsea 7

    27 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Wintershall Norge has awarded two major subsea contracts for its operated Nova field (formerly Skarfjell) in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • Atlantic Petroleum Buys Emergy Exploration (Norway)

    14 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Petroleum announces  has issued a voluntary offer for 100% of the shares in Emergy Exploration AS based in Bergen, Norway. Emergy Exploration is an independent, upstream oil and gas company focused on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (the “NCS”). The Offer for 100% of the shares in Emergy is USD 12.7 million to be paid […]

  • Norway: Statoil Gets Green Light for Skuld PDO

    20 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy today, 20 January, gave the green light to the plan for development and operation (PDO) of Skuld, a fast-track development tied in to the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea. Skuld is Statoil’s fifth approved fast-track PDO, and the largest fast-track development so far. All of these fields are […]

  • DNV GL Bags Polarled Pipelay Surveillance Contract from Statoil

    13 May 2015
    Project & Tenders

    DNV GL has been awarded another offshore pipelay surveillance contract by Statoil to monitor quality assurance throughout the installation campaign. Statoil is installing the 480km long Polarled gas pipeline between the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea and the Nyhamna gas processing facility in western Norway. The pipeline will have capacity of 70 million […]

  • Norway: Det Norske Elects New Board Member

    20 April 2012
    Business & Finance

      Tom Røtjer was elected new board member of Det norske oljeselskap ASA at yesterday’s Annual General Meeting. Mr Røtjer has been Executive Vice President, Projects in Norsk Hydro ASA since February 2007. Mr Røtjer has held a large variety of management positions in Hydro since 1980, covering different areas of development projects. From 2004 […]

  • Statoil: Installation of Asgard subsea gas compression modules begins

    9 June 2015
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has informed that the installation of the modules that collectively constitute Åsgard subsea gas compression has started on the Åsgard field located in the Norwegian Sea.  Statoil says that this technology at a depth of 300 metres will create 282 million extra barrels from the Åsgard field. According to the press release, a total of […]

  • OMV strikes oil in Norwegian North Sea

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

    OMV Norge, a subsidiary of Austria’s oil and gas company OMV, has made an oil discovery near the Gudurun field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) reported today, 20 April, that OMV Norge, operator of the production license 817, had completed the drilling of wildcat well 15/2-2 S using […]

  • Statoil Plans $1.5 Billion in Modifications Off Norway

    7 January 2011

    Statoil has planned 990 modification projects on the Norwegian continental shelf in 2011, with a price tag totalling NOK 9 billion (Approximately USD$1,52 bln). The modifications will improve health, safety and the environment (HSE) – as well as earnings from the installations. Appropriations for modification work have been consistently high for a number of years […]

  • Faroe: Butch East Well Results Disappointing

    12 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, informed that drilling has reached target depth on the Centrica-operated Butch East exploration well 8/10-5S and a subsequent up-dip appraisal well 8/10-5A, the first of two back-to back-wells in Licence […]

  • Statoil to Drill 20 to 25 Exploration Wells in Norway Next Year

    7 November 2013

    Statoil has announced “an exciting exploration programme in Norway also in 2014, building on the exploration successes of recent years.” Statoil plans to drill 20-25 exploration wells on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) in 2014, of which around two-thirds will be Statoil-operated. “Statoil’s exploration success rate on the Norwegian continental shelf has been over 70% […]

  • China: COSL Takes Delivery of New Semi-Submersible Drilling Rig

    21 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    On the morning of Oct. 21st, 2011, the Delivery Ceremony of COSLINNOVATOR was successfully held in Yantai. It is the second deep water semi-submersible drilling platform built by Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd. (hereafter refers to CIMC Raffles) for COSL Drilling Europe AS (hereafter refers to CDE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Oilfield Services Limited […]

  • Norway nods for Trestakk discovery development plan

    5 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian authorities have approved the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) of the Trestakk discovery on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea. Investments are calculated at NOK 5.5 billion ($641M), almost half of the original estimate. Trestakk was discovered in 1986 and expected recoverable volumes are 76 million barrels of oil equivalent, mainly oil. […]

  • Aasta Hansteen, Polarled create 200 jobs in Northern Norway

    14 February 2014

    The Aasta Hansteen and Polarled development projects will have significant spinoff effects in the north of Norway. So far the projects are set to ensure jobs for 200 people on the Helgeland coast. “Aasta Hansteen is a pioneer project in Northern Norway. It is the deepest field development on the Norwegian continental shelf. We employ […]

  • Norway: Det Norske Elects Tom Røtjer as New Board Member

    20 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Tom Røtjer was elected new board member of Det norske oljeselskap ASA at the Annual General Meeting. Mr Røtjer has been Executive Vice President, Projects in Norsk Hydro ASA since February 2007. Mr Røtjer has held a large variety of management positions in Hydro since 1980, covering different areas of development projects. From 2004 to […]

  • Saipem collects $900 million in new contracts

    20 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has secured two contracts, one in Brazil and one in Norway, for a total amount of approximately $900 million. The first contract was secured with TotalEnergies in partnership with Aker Solutions do Brasil for the Lapa South-West development project, a deepwater oil field in the Santos Basin, located 270 kilometers […]

  • VIDEO: Kvaerner moves Njord A platform from drydock

    11 September 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Norway-based engineering and construction services company Kvaerner has moved the Statoil-operated Njord A platform out of a drydock in Stord yard in Norway.  The operation was performed over the weekend to make room at the drydock for the next project. Statoil on Sunday launched a video of the operation, showing a complicated and demanding move of the […]