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Statoil’s Visund platform, which lost electricity on Sunday, has restored its main power supply yesterday afternoon. The power outage forced Statoil to shut production at the platform and transfer 84 workers to the nearby Gullfaks A platform in the North Sea. “Work is now ongoing to get back in normal operation as soon as possible, too […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development
Statoil ends the search for the 48-year-old man who was reported missing on the Visund platform in the North Sea on Thursday 6 October. The search of the seabed around the platform was unsuccessful. Boats and helicopters have been involved in the search for the missing man. A search party and dog have searched […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders
Statoil Petroleum AS has received consent to use the COSL Pioneer semi-submersible drilling rig for drilling and completion of wells 34/8-C-2 H and 34/8-C-2 AH at Visund Nord. The activity is scheduled to begin in August, with a duration of around 120 days. Visund is an oil field located east of the Snorre field in […]
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Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil focused on how it safeguards the planning and execution of drilling and well operations on Visund A. The objective was to verify that Statoil and its contractors in the Visund organisation meet the regulatory requirements, PSA explained. The audit identified three regulatory non-conformities, […]
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Production on both Visund and Oseberg South have been resumed after the temporary halt caused by the severe weather on Friday 9 November.
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Statoil will use the COSLPioneer semi-submersible drilling rig to drill and complete the wells 34/8-C-2 H and 34/8-C-2 AH at Visund Nord field, in the North Sea, offshore Norway. According to a statement by Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, the activity is expected to start in August. It will take four months for the operations to be completed. Visund […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders
TechnipFMC has been awarded an extension to its ongoing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Statoil in the Norwegian North Sea. The ongoing EPC project covers the provision of subsea equipment including template structure, manifold and two subsea trees including wellheads and modifications of control systems to the Visund Nord improved oil recovery project, whereas the extension includes installation of the template structure […]
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Statoil has concluded its in-house commission of inquiry following the gas leak on the Visund platform in the North Sea on 19 January. The underlying cause was a design fault on a knock-out drum.
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A production shutdown at the modest Visund oil field is not expected to last long, Norway’s Statoil said, after it halted output earlier on… Source: Reuters [mappress] Source: Reuters, October 7, 2011;
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Business & Finance, Equipment
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement with Statoil for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Visund Nord offshore development. The contract has a value of approximately $50 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. Visund Nord is a fast-track oil and gas field located in water […]
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Statoil has awarded Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson , a $33 million contract to upgrade safety and automation systems on the Visund oil platform in the Norwegian North Sea. Previously selected by Statoil as one of its preferred automation and safety suppliers, Emerson will provide integrated safety and automation systems to help the […]
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Oil and gas production is expected to resume from the Visund platform in the North Sea in mid-June. Tests and repair work following the gas leak on 19 January will then be completed.
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Business & Finance, Equipment
Aibel is installing two winches for pull-in of risers on the Gullfaks C platform for Statoil. The assignment is awarded as a contract amendment. The estimated value is NOK 100 million. The winches will be used in the work with replacing the existing pipeline between Gullfaks C and Tordis, which is a fully developed subsea […]
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FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement with Statoil for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Visund Nord offshore development. The contract has a value of approximately $50 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. Visund Nord is a fast-track oil and gas field located in […]
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StatoilHydro, who is operator for the rich gas pipeline from the Kvitebjørn and Visund fields to Kollsnes near Bergen, has decided to repair the line. Repair work will be carried out in 2008 and gas export from the two fields is halted while work is undertaken.
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
This will be the year Statoil is planning and realising several fast-track developments on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Two new projects are being launched these days, namely Gamma/Harepus and Snorre B template. A plan for development and operation (PDO) of Gamma/Harepus is to be submitted in first quarter 2012, allowing production start-up in the […]
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Production on the Statoil-operated Visund platform in the North Sea was shut down just after midnight on 19 January, after gas and fire detectors were activated on the platform. It has been visually confirmed that there were no flames.
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders
Aibel is installing two winches for pull-in of risers on the Gullfaks C platform for Statoil. The assignment is awarded as a contract amendment. The estimated value is NOK 100 million. The winches will be used in the work with replacing the existing pipeline between Gullfaks C and Tordis, which is a fully developed subsea […]
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Equipment, Project & Tenders
ROV operator IKM Subsea has begun mobilization of first equipment for Statoil’s Visund and Snorre B fields in the North Sea. IKM was awarded a contract by Statoil for ROV services on the Visund and Snorre B fields in August 2016. IKM Subsea said on Monday that the contract entails the provision of the testing and installation […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders
This will be the year Statoil is planning and realising several fast-track developments on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Two new projects are being launched these days, namely Gamma/Harepus and Snorre B template. A plan for development and operation (PDO) of Gamma/Harepus is to be submitted in first quarter 2012, allowing production start-up in the […]
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IKM Subsea has delivered first equipment for Snorre B and Visund fields under the ROV services contract that the company secured last August. The contract is for the provision of testing and installation of an electrical, permanently seabed installed Residential – ROV (RROV), that will interface with IKMS’s Onshore Control Center. “We are pleased to announce that […]
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted oil major Statoil a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.
