5781 results found for 'cosl statoil'

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  • Statoil to drill at Troll with COSL Innovator using new method

    10 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Statoil Petroleum AS has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to use the COSL Innovator mobile drilling rig for production drilling on the Troll field, offshore Norway, using the Controlled Mud Level method. The consent covers the use of COSL Innovator for production drilling on 8½” sections in well 31/2-L-22 on the Troll […]

  • Norway: Statoil Charters COSL Pioneer Semi-Submersible Rig

    9 December 2010
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has awarded a contract to COSL Drilling Europe for the charter of the semi-submersible COSL Pioneer. Plans call for the rig to be used for production and exploration drilling on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) from mid-2011. ”We are pleased with the fact that this contract secures the necessary future capacity in the rig […]

  • COSL cuts 230 jobs after Statoil’s rig contract cancellation

    14 March 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor COSL Drilling Europe will axe 230 jobs as a result of a contract cancellation for one if its semi-subs with the Norwegian company Statoil.  To remind, Statoil recently terminated the contract for the offshore driller’s COSLInnovator rig, and suspended its contract for another COSL rig, the COSLPromoter. Both rigs were operating on the […]

  • Norway: Statoil to Use COSL Innovator to Drill on Troll Field

    14 June 2012

    Statoil Petroleum AS has been granted consent for drilling on the Troll field with the mobile drilling facility COSLInnovator.  The consent applies to drilling, completion and plugback on the Troll field in production licence 054 and 085. The water depth at the sites varies from 333 metres to 377 metres. Statoil’s contract with COSL Drilling […]

  • Norway: Statoil Wants i-Tech ROVs on COSL Rigs

    30 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Subsea 7, through its i-Tech division, announces today the award by Statoil ASA for the provision of ROV services onboard China Oilfield Services Ltd (COSL)’s new build Innovator and Promoter rigs currently under construction in China. i-Tech’s workscope includes the provision of two new build Centurion QX work class and two existing Tiger observation class […]

  • Norway: Statoil Gets Green Light for Exploration Drilling with COSL Pioneer

    14 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has received consent to carry out exploration drilling in the northern North Sea with the COSL Pioneer mobile facility. The consent relates to the drilling of exploration well 33/12-9S which is part of production licence 152. Statoil (70%) is the operator with Petoro (30%) as the partner. COSLPioneer’s planned position when drilling well 33/12-9S […]

  • Norway: Statoil to Drill Wildcat in Oseberg Field Using COSL Pioneer

    10 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has given Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 30/6-28 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 30/6-28 S will be drilled from the COSL Pioneer drilling facility at position 60°33’59.33” north and 2°44’40.69” east after completing the drilling of wildcat well 33/12-9 S for Statoil Petroleum […]

  • Statoil gets go-ahead to use COSL Pioneer at Visund Nord

    11 August 2014

    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 […]

  • Statoil suspends another rig on ‘overcapacity’

    17 September 2014
    Equipment

    Norwegian oil giant Statoil will lay up the COSL Pioneer semi-submersible drilling rig in the fourth quarter of 2014, “due to overcapacity in our rig portfolio.”

  • One worker dead, two injured after heavy wave hits North Sea drilling rig

    31 December 2015

    One worker died after a heavy wave hit the COSL Innovator drilling rig offshore Norway on Wednesday, the operator of the rig Statoil, has informed. The company Wednesday said two other people were injured and were receiving medical treatment ashore. The COSL Innovator rig is now heading to shore under its own power.   COSL Innovator […]

  • Petrobras’ Brazilian FPSOs to sport Exail’s navigation tech

    7 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Exail, a subsidiary of Exail Technologies, has been hired to provide 30 Quadrans attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS), which will be installed on floating production, storage, and offloading units (FPSOs) working off the coast of Brazil for Petrobras, the country’s state-owned giant.

  • MOL, Karpowership’s Kinetics join forces on ‘world’s first’ integrated floating data center platform

    8 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Vision

    Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kinetics, the energy transition initiative of Turkish floating power company Karpowership, to jointly develop a next-generation floating data center platform.

  • One Dead, Two Injured on Board COSL Rig

    31 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    One person has died and two other were injured as a result of the breaking wave that hit the drilling rig COSL Innovator on Wednesday, December 30, Statoil and COSL confirmed. COSL Innovator is under contract to Statoil at the Troll field in the North Sea, west of Bergen. As informed, the two injured people […]

  • COSLInnovator Starts Troll Field Operations (Norway)

    14 November 2012

    COSL Drilling Europe today announced that its COSLInnovator semi-submersible drilling rig started operations on the Statoil’s Troll field in Norway. Statoil is using the rig to drill the well 31/2-K-23 in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Statoil’s contract with COSL Drilling Europe for the use of COSLInnovator has a duration of eight years […]

  • Statoil Exercises Second Option for COSLPioneer

    2 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    COSL Drilling announced today that Statoil has exercised the second 2 years option in for semi-submersible drilling rig COSLPioneer. Based on this contract extension COSLPioneer will be on a firm contract with Statoil until mid August 2016. COSLPioneer is a semi-submersible drilling rig designed to operate in water depths up to 750 meter. The unit is […]

  • Statoil cancels another rig contract

    21 November 2014

    Statoil has cancelled a contract for yet another drilling rig. This time it is the Stena Carron drillship, in Angola. Statoil has explained that it has opted to cancel the Stena Carron rig contract after fulfilling the work commitments in the Statoil-operated blocks 38 and 39 in the Kwanza basin offshore Angola. The rig contract will cease with […]

  • Norwegian unions warn Statoil’s rig decision means 600 jobs will be lost

    8 March 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian workers’ unions demanded a meeting with the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy over Statoil’s termination and suspension of COSLInnovator and COSLPromoter contracts, respectively, warning that 600 jobs could be lost.  To remind, Norwegian oil company Statoil terminated a contract with COSL Drilling for the semi-sub COSLInnovator, and suspended the one it had for the COSLPromoter rig. […]

  • Statoil sends ‘COSLPromoter’ back to Troll field

    21 March 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has re-mobilized previously suspended COSL Drilling’s semi-submersible rig COSLPromoter, and sent it back to the Troll field, offshore Norway.  To remind, Statoil recently decided to stop drilling operations with the COSLPromoter until it was “safe to discontinue well operations”. According to Statoil, this was done in order to enable COSL to implement the […]

  • Statoil extends suspensions for rig trio

    5 December 2014

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has extended the suspension times for three offshore drilling rigs. The company said that the reason for the extended suspension for COSL Pioneer, Scarabeo 5 and Songa Trym semi-submersibles was overcapacity in the rig portfolio. Statoil has also said that the suspensions are also a result of the failed attempts to mature […]

  • Transocean sees early end of contract with Statoil

    18 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Statoil, a Norwegian oil major, has decided to cancel the contract with Transocean, a drilling contractor, for the drillship Discoverer Americas. The drillship has been on contract with Statoil since 2009, supporting Statoil’s exploration activities in East and North Africa and the Gulf of Mexico. Statoil was in the current environment unable to secure additional activity for […]

  • Rosneft: COSL to drill two wells in Okhotsk Sea

    2 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    China’s COSL signed a contract with Statoil and Rosneft to drill two exploration wells in the Magadan-1 and Lisyansky areas of the Okhotsk Sea in 2016. The driller has been hired by Magadanmorneftegaz, Lisyanskmorneftegaz, joint ventures of Rosneft and Statoil. COSL offered its semi-submersible drilling rig Nanhai-9 and won the tender based on a combined score […]

  • Faroe Islands: Statoil to Spud Brugdan II Well Soon

    13 June 2012

    Norway’s oil giant Statoil has completed drilling operations at Glitne oil field located in the Norwegian North Sea. The latest well at Glitne, drilled by the COSL Pioneer semi submersible rig, proved to be a dry-hole. According to the owner of the rig, COSL Pioneer, on June 6, departed the Glitne location and underwent preparations […]

  • Statoil suspends contract for Saipem’s Scarabeo 5 rig

    1 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil and gas giant Statoil has decided to suspend Saipem’s Scarabeo 5 rig due to overcapacity in its rig portfolio. According to Statoil, the suspension will take effect once Scarabeo 5 has completed drilling of a well on the Kristin field in the middle of August, and will last until March 1, 2016. Scarabeo […]

  • Statoil slashes Johan Sverdrup development costs

    18 January 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Statoil, a Norwegian oil and gas major, has cut the cost estimate for the development of one of the five biggest oil fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Johan Sverdrup.  The field, operated by Statoil, is located on the Utsira Height in the North Sea offshore Norway, 155 kilometres west of Stavanger. The field will be […]

  • Equinor to pay $188 million to COSL after settling rig dispute

    10 January 2020
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor COSL has reached an agreement with Equinor in a dispute related to the validity of the termination of drilling rig contracts.