288 results found for 'transocean barents'

288 results found for 'transocean barents'
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  • Equinor gearing up for two North Sea wells

    17 October 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation

    Equinor has secured a permit from the country’s authorities to drill two wildcat wells in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • Industry Executives Discuss Arctic Safety at PSA Conference

    22 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    On Friday 1 November, senior executives from the petroleum industry from Norway and abroad are meeting for a conference at the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) on risk management and safe petroleum activities in the High North. The aim of the Arctic Safety – managing risk in the High North conference is to establish an […]

  • Fitch: Big guns could target smaller offshore drillers

    28 August 2014
    Equipment

    The cyclical downturn in the offshore oil and gas-drilling market may provide an opportunity for drillers with financial flexibility to buy high-yield peers at favorable prices, Fitch Ratings says.

  • New oil & gas discovery in North Sea with tie-back on the horizon

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

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has made a new commercial oil and gas discovery in the North Sea off Norway, using a Transocean-owned rig.

  • Transocean, Chevron Ink 5-Year Contract for New Drillship

    16 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Transocean Ltd. announced it has been awarded a five-year contract for a newbuild dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillship by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Shipyard delivery is scheduled for the second quarter of 2016. After customer acceptance, the contract is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2016, contributing an estimated revenue backlog of approximately $1.1 billion, […]

  • Norway: Lundin Petroleum Starts Skalle Exporation Well Drilling in Barents Sea

    16 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that drilling of exploration well 7120/2-3 in PL438 has commenced. The well will target the Skalle prospect, which is situated to the north of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The main objective of well 7120/2-3 is to test Cretaceous and Jurassic/Triassic age sandstones of […]

  • Wintershall Finds Gas in 6406/6-3 Well in Norwegian Sea

    21 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 511, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6406/6-3. The well was drilled about 25 kilometres south of the Tyrihans field and about 15 kilometres northeast of the 6406/9-1 Linnorm discovery. The primary and secondary exploration targets for the well were to prove petroleum in Middle to […]

  • Lundin Petroleum Discovers Oil in Gohta Prospect in Barents Sea

    2 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), announces the flow test rate of the previously announced Gohta discovery of approximately 4,300 barrels of oil per day (bopd). Gohta is Lundin Petroleum’s first oil discovery in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The well 7120/1-3 operated by Lundin Petroleum […]

  • Statoil hits gas in Barents Sea

    10 October 2014

    Statoil Petroleum, operator of production licence 714, said it is completing the drilling of wildcat well 7220/2-1.  The well was drilled about 40 kilometres northeast of the oil and gas discovery 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea, and about 260 kilometres northwest of Hammerfest. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove […]

  • Statoil Encounters Gas in PL 714 in Barents Sea

    10 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 714, is currently completing the drilling of wildcat well 7220/2-1. The well was drilled about 40 kilometres northeast of the oil and gas discovery 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea, and about 260 kilometres northwest of Hammerfest. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove […]

  • Statoil disappointed with Barents Sea drilling campaign

    7 August 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Norway’s Statoil has together with its partner Idemitsu Petroleum Norge made a small gas discovery in the Mercury prospect in PL614 in the Barents Sea. This completes Statoil’s 2014 exploration programme in the Hoop area. This summer Statoil drilled three exploration wells in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea: Apollo and Atlantis in PL615 […]

  • Wintershall Discovers Gas Near Tyrihans Field in North Sea

    21 June 2013

    Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 511, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6406/6-3. The well was drilled about 25 kilometres south of the Tyrihans field and about 15 kilometres northeast of the 6406/9-1 Linnorm discovery. The primary and secondary exploration targets for the well were to prove petroleum in Middle to Lower […]

  • Wintershall bites dust in Barents Sea well

    24 February 2016
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    German oil and gas company Wintershall has failed to find hydrocarbons in its Kvalross exploration well located in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.  According to Faroe Petroleum, an independent oil and gas company and a partner in the project with 40% stake, the drilling has reached target depth on the Wintershall-operated Kvalross well. The Kvalross exploration well 7224/2-1 was […]

  • Video: Greenpeace blocks two rigs destined for Arctic waters

    27 May 2014

    Greenpeace activists from 12 countries blocked two separate oil rigs destined to drill in the Arctic ocean in the early hours of Tuesday morning. A group of 30 activists in the Dutch port of IJmuiden occupied the GSP Saturn, a rig contracted by Russia’s state owned energy company Gazprom on its way to the remote […]

  • Vantage says deepwater market could begin to recover later this year

    6 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Vantage Drilling believes the shallow water activity is stabilizing and the recovery in the deepwater market could begin later in 2021.

  • Keppel in talks to sell newbuild jack-ups to Borr

    22 January 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Singaporean rig builder Keppel Offshore & Marine is in talks with Oslo-listed driller Borr Drilling about the possible sale of jack-up rigs currently being built by Keppel FELS.

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    23 February 2014

    Check out the most popular articles of the week, February 17-23, 2014.

  • Statoil finds gas at Gymir

    9 June 2015

    Statoil informed that together with its PL602 partners it has made a gas discovery in the Gymir prospect.

  • Transocean Winner rig waiting for nod to sail away

    14 October 2016
    Exploration & Production

    UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) informed on Friday that sea fastening work to make the Transocean Winner rig ready for its journey on the back of the Hawk heavy lift vessel has been completed and signed off. The rig had been stranded near a beach close to Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland after the […]

  • Some Greenpeace activists leave ‘Transocean Spitsbergen’ rig

    28 May 2014

    Some of the Greenpeace activist who boarded the Statoil-operated Transocean Spitsbergen drilling rig in Norway yesterday, have withdrawn from the rig. While ten activists spent the night on the rig, five were flown to land by a helicopter, late Tuesday night, after deciding to cease their demonstration. Greenpeace said they are “now safe and in good spirits in […]

  • Statoil finds gas at Gymir

    9 June 2015

    Statoil informed that together with its PL602 partners it has made a gas discovery in the Gymir prospect.

  • Statoil in minor gas discovery. Rig completes contract

    9 June 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 602, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 6706/11-2 in the Norwegian Sea. The well encountered gas. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres west of the Aasta Hansteen field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in […]

  • Wellesley wraps up appraisal of Grosbeak discovery in North Sea

    29 October 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Wellesley Petroleum has successfully appraised the Grosbeak discovery in the Northern North Sea

  • Saudi Aramco suspends Shelf Drilling jack-up rig charter

    15 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Saudi Arabian oil and gas giant Saudi Aramco has suspended its contract for the Shelf Drilling-owned High Island IV jack-up rig.

  • Faroe Petroleum Announces Spud of Pil Well (Norway)

    21 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Faroe Petroleum, announces the spudding of the VNG-operated Pil exploration well 6404/12-3S (Faroe 25%). The Pil prospect (Licence PL 586) is located within tie-back distance (33 kilometres) to the Njord platform in which the Company holds a 7.5% interest. The prospect is a combined structural and stratigraphic closure and the primary target is at the […]