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  • Installation of 2-kilometer-long cooling bundle for North Sea field underway in Norwegian waters

    29 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Aker BP has confirmed the start of installation activities for a 2-kilometer-long cooling bundle at its field in the North Sea, as part of its development project which will ensure a lifetime extension for the Valhall field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) past 2028.

  • $27 billion fills Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips’ quarterly profit coffers

    17 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Against the backdrop of concerns over hydrocarbon production rates, the European and U.S. oil majors – the UK’s duo Shell and BP, France’s TotalEnergies, Norway’s Equinor, and Italy’s Eni alongside U.S.-based trio: ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips – have secured over $27.14 billion in profits.

  • Norwegian oil & gas player to spud North Sea wildcat with Odfjell Drilling-managed rig

    12 February 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Norwegian authorities have handed out a drilling permit for an exploration well in the North Sea off Norway, which is expected to be spud this month using one of Odfjell Drilling-managed semi-submersible rigs.

  • SolarDuck sets up Norwegian floating solar base

    16 May 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Floating solar developer SolarDuck has opened an office in Norway, which will serve as the company’s global business development center.

  • Wintershall brings Maria field online one year ahead of schedule

    18 December 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Wintershall has started production at the Maria field offshore Norway one year ahead of schedule. Wintershall said on Monday that costs have been reduced by more than 20% compared to plan. The start-up was originally intended for the fourth quarter of 2018. At an expected final investment cost of around 12 billion NOK, the project […]

  • Norwegian oil & gas firm gets the go-ahead to spud North Sea prospect

    7 April 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    DNO has received consent from Norway’s regulator for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using one of the Odfjell Drilling-managed rigs.

  • Two Norwegian players to slice up MOL’s stake in two North Sea discoveries

    6 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    After deciding to buy MOL’s stake in two North Sea licences, Lime has inked a farm-down deal with Vår Energi for a portion of this stake.

  • Wood Mackenzie: Exploration to slow down in 2015 (Norway)

    13 January 2015

    Wood Mackenzie, an energy intelligence company has, in its annual review of Norway’s upstream oil and gas sector, said that despite the dramatic fall in oil prices in the last quarter, on the surface 2014 was business as usual for the country’s buoyant upstream sector. However, the company we expect to see a slow down in exploration, […]

  • Norwegian firm getting a stake in North Sea prospect ahead of drill-or-drop decision

    14 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    OKEA and Aker BP have struck a deal, which enables the former to get an interest in a prospect the latter is contemplating to drill with the aim of finding more hydrocarbons in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.

  • Oil production starts at Equinor’s Norwegian field, ushering in ‘new era’ for Barents Sea

    31 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has brought on stream a field it operates in the Barents Sea, which is expected to produce for 30 years.

  • Longboat gains access to OMV’s two ‘high-quality, gas-weighted’ wells off Norway

    9 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Longboat has executed a farm-in agreement with OMV for two prospects on the NCS, boosting its net unrisked mean resources by 68 per cent.

  • Norwegian player seeks operatorship as MOL Norge offloads two North Sea discoveries

    18 April 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Following an agreement with Hungary’s MOL, Norway’s Lime Petroleum will expand its North Sea portfolio with more acreage.

  • Gas discovery at Solberg (Norway)

    10 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 475, in the Norwegian Sea has completed the drilling of appraisal wells 6407/1-7 and 6407/1-7 A (Solberg prospect). The wells were drilled about eight kilometres northeast of the Tyrihans field and five kilometres northeast of the 6407/1-6 S gas condensate discovery in production licence 475. The reservoir in […]

  • Audit finds heavily corroded grating aboard Equinor’s Veslefrikk oldsters

    20 June 2019

    The Petroleum Safety Authority has found twelve non-conformities during an audit of Veslefrikk A and B in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • Det Norske Receives Approval for Drilling of Exploration Well in Norwegian North Sea

    13 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Det norske oljeselskap ASA has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 25/6-4 in the North Sea with the Songa Delta mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 414, approx. 20 kilometres east of Frøy. Drilling of sidetrack 25/6-4 A could be relevant. Water depth at the site is […]

  • Norway: Det Norske Announces High Operating Revenues in 4Q 2010

    16 February 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

      Det norske oljeselskap ASA is working actively on three potential development projects. In the fourth quarter, Det norske recorded high operating revenues. In 2010, Det norske oljeselskap ASA confirmed its position as one of the most active exploration companies on the Norwegian continental shelf and the company will continue its extensive exploration activity in […]

  • Knutsen Gets Approval to Ship Norwegian LNG Via Northern Sea Route

    6 January 2012

    Knutsen OAS Shipping has received permission from Russian authorities to carry LNG from Snøhvit to Japan trough the Northern Sea Route. “We started preparations in the spring of 2010. The Murmansk based NSR administration has now approved our application, subject to our acquiring charts, navigation equipment and warm clothing for the crew“, say two of […]

  • Russia’s Gazprom eyes asset swap deals with Shell, OMV by year-end

    21 June 2016

    Russia’s state-controlled gas giant Gazprom could gain control over some of the assets that Shell acquired earlier this year from BG group, a senior Gazprom executive said in an interview.

  • Gate set for Norwegian LNG cargo

    19 February 2015
    Vessels

    Gate LNG terminal is set for a cargo of Norway’s liquefied natural gas.

  • Taiwan set for Norwegian LNG cargo

    24 June 2015
    Vessels

    Taiwan is expected to receive a Norwegian LNG cargo aboard the 162,400 cbm BW GDF Suez Brussels on July 27. The LNG tanker departed from Statoil’s Snohvit liquefaction plant on Tuesday and it is sailing to the Yung An terminal, according to shipping data. The 7.5 million mt/year Yung An LNG terminal is located at Kaohsiung, […]

  • Taiwan set for Norwegian LNG cargo

    24 June 2015
    Vessels

    Taiwan is expected to receive a Norwegian LNG cargo aboard the 162,400 cbm BW GDF Suez Brussels on July 27. The LNG tanker departed from Statoil’s Snohvit liquefaction plant on Tuesday and it is sailing to the Yung An terminal, according to shipping data. The 7.5 million mt/year Yung An LNG terminal is located at Kaohsiung, […]

  • Gate LNG set for Norwegian cargo

    2 October 2015
    Vessels

    Dutch Gate LNG terminal in the port of Rotterdam is scheduled to receive a cargo of the chilled gas from Statoil’s Hammerfest plant in Norway. The 147,980 cbm Arctic Princess is expected to arrive at Gate around October 5, according to shipping data. The first Dutch LNG import terminal, owned by Gasunie and Vopak, has in […]

  • Norwegian player expands North Sea footprint after closing Aker BP and Repsol deals

    4 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Lime Petroleum has increased its North Sea footprint by completing the deals signed with Aker BP and Repsol earlier in 2021.

  • EMGS: Vessel Utilization in Q2 Down by 3 Percent

    4 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has released information on vessel activity and utilisation for the second quarter 2014.  The Company defines “vessel utilisation” as the percentage of the vessel charter period spent on contracted or multi-client data acquisition. Vessel utilisation for the second quarter 2014 came in at 75% compared with 78% for the second quarter 2013. In the second quarter […]

  • Floatel Superior Evac: “Everything Was Calm and Orderly,” Crew Member Says

    9 November 2012

    On Wednesday at 03:40 damage to a ballast tank on Floatel Superior in the Norwegian Sea was discovered. The hole in the tank caused the rig to tilt 4 degrees, leaving Statoil no choice but to evacuate.