5781 results found for 'cosl statoil'

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  • COSL, Equinor ink new master framework agreement

    3 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    COSL Drilling Europe (CDE) has signed a master framework agreement with Equinor on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, that fully enables it to provide additional drilling units and services to the oil major.

  • PSA inspects COSL Drilling’s anchoring systems

    30 September 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of COSL Drilling’s follow-up of anchoring systems. Since 2010, there have been a number of anchor line failures on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The PSA says that during the period, COSL experienced a double line failure on the COSL Pioneer semi-submersible drilling rig. According […]

  • China: CIMC Raffles, COSL Ink Contract for New Semi-submersible Rig

    2 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Limited and COSL Drilling Europe yesterday signed the contract for deepwater semi-submersible platform, the COSLPROSPECTOR, in Beijing. The COSLPROSPECTOR is a DP3 vessel with an operating depth of 1,500 metres, a drilling depth of 7,600 metres and a designed operating temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius. Classed by DNV with basic […]

  • Weco’s improved wave energy converter taking shape (Video)

    1 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    The Hague-based Wave Energy Collective (Weco) has entered the building phase of its upgraded wave energy converter (WEC), Kaizen 2.0, together with Holland Shipyards Group. The project is said to build on a longstanding collaboration between Weco and the Dutch shipyard, which supported the developer’s initial prototype. The ongoing partnership also extends to Weco’s offshore […]

  • Union identifies offshore worker killed by giant wave in North Sea

    4 January 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore Energy Today reported last week that an offshore worker had died after a heavy wave hit the COSL Innovator drilling rig offshore Norway. The worker has now been identified by his union, Industri Energi.  Rune Morten Narvåg, aged 53, was killed by a giant wave that hit the rig operating for Statoil in the […]

  • WATCH: Aker BP slotting puzzle pieces in place to ensure North Sea oil project’s 40-year lifespan

    10 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Aker BP is piecing together the remaining sections of the utility model puzzle designed for a production and wellhead platform (PWP) that will help ensure hydrocarbon production at its field in the southern part of the Norwegian sector in the North Sea for 40 more years.

  • Statoil: Nexans umbilicals for Visund field

    4 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Statoil has signed a contract at a value of 4.5 million EUR ($5.15 M) for the fifth delivery of standardised umbilical cables developed by Nexans.  According to Nexans, Statoil’s Visund oil and gas field, located in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea, will be the fifth project to use these standard umbilicals. The […]

  • PSA reviews pressure drilling on COSL Innovator

    18 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    From 10 to 13 June 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway carried out an audit of Statoil’s use of managed pressure drilling using COSL Innovator on the Troll field. The objective of the activity was to audit that Statoil, the service providers, drilling contractor and other stakeholders, were planning, performing, and garnering experience from the […]

  • ‘Songa Endurance’ starts drilling for Statoil

    31 December 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Songa Endurance semi-submersible drilling rig has started drilling operations under its contract with Statoil in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The rig’s owner Songa Offshore broke the news on Thursday, saying that the rig “is now on operating rate”. The Songa Endurance is on an eight-year drilling contract with Statoil at the Troll oil and […]

  • Norway: Statoil Discovers Oil Column in Oseberg Area

    23 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Statoil and its partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations in the exploration well 30/6-28S located in the production license PL053 in the Oseberg Area Unit. The well drilled by the rig COSL Pioneer proved an oil column of 12 metres in the Statfjord Formation. The estimated volume of the discovery is in […]

  • Subsea 7 Installs Nautronix NASNet on Aasta Hansteen

    15 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Nautronix has reported that the NASNet array in Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen field is fully operational and awaiting first field construction. Last year Nautronix secured an order with Subsea 7 to supply 16 NASNet stations along with a wet-stored spare station and three additional MTrx beacons to provide QC capabilities. Subsea 7 collected the full equipment spread […]

  • Statoil Extends COSLPioneer Contract

    2 August 2013

    COSL Drilling Europe AS, has announced that Norwegian oil company Statoil has exercised its second 2-year option for the COSLPioneer semi-submersible rig. Under the contract extension the rig will proceed to operate for Statoil until August 2016. The dayrate for the contract was not revealed. The COSLPioneer is a harsh environment semi-submersible drilling rig designed […]

  • Nexans’ Umbilicals for Statoil’s Visund Field

    4 February 2015
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Statoil’s Visund oil and gas field, located in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea, will be the fifth project to use standard umbilicals developed by Nexans.  The standardised umbilicals are made up of electrical and fibre optic cables as well as hydraulic and chemical lines. Nexans will deliver 830 m of dynamic umbilical cables, […]

  • COSLPromoter Starts Drilling for Statoil (Norway)

    4 April 2013

    China Oilfield Services Limited has announced that COSLPromoter, a semi-submersible drilling rig of the Group, has officially commenced operation in Norwegian North Sea for an eight-year service contract with Statoil ASA on 2 April 2013 Norwegian Time. As COSL’s third semi-submersible drilling rig being deployed in Norwegian North Sea, COSLPromoter is designed to operate in […]

  • Battery-hybrid USV order takes UK’s HydroSurv to West African waters

    16 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    UK-based uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) technology player, HydroSurv, has sold a USV to Nigeria’s offshore survey services provider, Geodetic Offshore Services Limited (GOSL), for hydrographic and geophysical survey activities.

  • COSL scores seismic survey work in “Far East”

    6 June 2016

    China Oilfield Services Limited, a Chinese offshore services provider also known under the abbreviated name COSL, has won another seismic acquisition contract. In a statement on Monday, COSL said it will carry out a 3D seismic survey in the “Far East”, without providing the specific location. The company will use the Hai Yan Shi You […]

  • Heartwarming story from Norway

    26 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    A plot twist is a radical change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a novel, film, television series, comic, video game, or other work of narrative. That’s exactly what happened with one drilling contractor in Norway.   At the times when oil companies are cutting costs and scrapping projects, due to […]

  • CCB bags COSLPromoter rig survey work

    21 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian Coast Center Base (CCB), a service provider in technical maintenance and harbor operations, has received a letter of intent for a renewal survey of the COSLPromoter rig. The survey on COSL Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling rig will be performed in May 2017. CCB noted that this is the only survey scheduled on the Norwegian Continental […]

  • China: CIMC Raffles, COSL Sign Contract for Construction of New Semi-Submersible Rig

    1 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Yantai CIMC Raffles and COSL Drilling Europe (CDE) today signed the contract for deepwater semi-submersible platform, the COSLPROSPECTOR, in Beijing. The COSLPROSPECTOR is a DP3 vessel with an operating depth of 1,500 metres, a drilling depth of 7,600 metres and a designed operating temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius. Classed by DNV with basic design […]

  • K Line’s PSV Supports Statoil’s Drilling Ops Offshore Faroe Islands

    4 July 2012

    K Line Offshore has announced that the large PSV KL Brofjord, built in 2011, commenced on a contract for Statoil on 14th June. The contract period is for approximately 130 days. The vessel will serve the COSL Pioneer, semi submersible rig which is presently drilling  at Brugdan II prospect offshore Faroe Islands. “This contract with […]

  • Agility Group, COSL Continue Collaboration

    12 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Agility Group AS has entered into an agreement with China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) to deliver detail engineering for the integration of the drilling package onto their latest drilling semisubmersible unit – Hai Yang Shi You 982 (HYSY982). “This contract confirms AG China’s position in the Chinese market”, said Otto Søberg, CEO at Agility Group. […]

  • COSLPioneer Semi-Submersible Rig Starts Operation Offshore Norway

    29 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    China Oilfield Services Limited today announced that its semi-submersible drilling platform COSLPioneer has commenced operation after fulfilling the technical requirements of Statoil ASA, a Norwegian energy company. Drilling platforms operating in the North Sea have to be equipped with technologically-advanced facilities, highly reliable and adaptive to the harsh operating environment. In addition, the drilling platform […]

  • Chinese Rig Reaches Norwegian Waters

    10 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    COSLPromoter, the semi-submersible rig which was delivered on 25 April by COSL Drilling Europe AS, a subsidiary of China Oilfield Services Limited, has recently arrived in Norwegian waters following a long journey from China. The voyage, which took 79 days and covered 15,097 nautical miles, was successfully completed with efforts from all crew members. Upon […]

  • Norwegian partners to kick-start Green Maritime Energy Station project

    17 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Ocean Hyway Cluster, a Norwegian network for hydrogen-based solutions for the maritime sector, and its consortium partners are set to initiate a pre-study on co-locating multiple types of low- and zero-emission maritime energy solutions in a single, integrated infrastructure hub, with funding support from Vestland County Municipality.

  • Norway: Offshore safety watchdog investigating first fatal incident since 2009

    31 December 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has decided to investigate a fatal incident that occurred on the COSL Pioneer drilling rig at the Troll field on Wednesday, December 30, 2015, when one person was killed and two others injured. As previously reported, a big wave hit the living quarters of the COSL Innovator drilling unit during the […]