280 results found for 'transocean barents'

280 results found for 'transocean barents'
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  • Maersk Oil Drills a Duster in PL 513, Offshore Norway

    13 February 2013

    Maersk Oil has finished drilling the 6506/6-2 exploration well on the Albert prospect in Norway. The well, drilled in Production License 513 in the Norwegian Sea, encountered no sign of hydrocarbons. The purpose of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in the Lower Cretaceous Lysing Fm. The well encountered sandstone with reservoir quality as expected, […]

  • Repsol Starts Drilling at Darwin Prospect (Norway)

    4 March 2013

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway,has announced the spudding of the Darwin exploration well (7218/11-1) (Faroe 12.5%). The Darwin prospect is located on the Veslemøy High in the frontier western part of the Barents Sea approximately […]

  • Canada: Funds available for public engagement in offshore drilling assessment

    7 December 2018
    Infrastructure

    CEAA has made funds available to assist in participation in the regional assessment of offshore drilling east of Newfoundland and Labrador.

  • Equinor in two oil discoveries offshore Canada

    29 October 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has made two oil discoveries offshore Newfoundland, Canada. The wells were drilled using the Transocean Barents rig.

  • Shell Receives Well 6406/9-3 Drilling Permit

    15 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted A/S Norske Shell a drilling permit for well 6406/9-3, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 6406/9-3 will be drilled from the Transocean Barents drilling facility in position 64°25’15.97″ north and 6°58’42.79″ east following completion of drilling of wildcat well 7218/11-1 for Repsol Exploration Norge AS […]

  • GDF SUEZ Abandons Well 7218/8-1 in Barents Sea

    10 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 607, has concluded drilling of wildcat well 7218/8-1. The well was drilled about 65 kilometres southwest of the oil and gas discovery 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg and 130 km northwest of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The well’s primary exploration target was to prove petroleum […]

  • Wildcat well comes up dry for Equinor

    15 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has concluded the drilling of a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea but failed to find hydrocarbons.

  • Transocean scoops North Sea awards

    25 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has been awarded several new contracts for its rigs in the UK North Sea as well as a new contract off Canada.   According to Transocean’s latest fleet status report on Monday, the 1983-built semi-submersible Sedco 712 has been awarded a 16-well contract in the U.K. sector of the North Sea […]

  • Det norske finds oil at Langlitinden. Not enough for development

    21 February 2014

    The volumes found so fare are insufficient to justify a field development

  • Repsol Receives Drilling Permit for New Well Off Norway

    16 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Repsol Exploration Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7218/11-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 7218/11-1will be drilled from the Transocean Barents drilling rig following completion of drilling of wildcat well 6506/6-2 for Maersk Oil Norway AS in production licence 513. The drilling programme […]

  • Shell spuds Norwegian Sea well

    26 August 2015

    Shell has spudded the Portrush exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the PL793 licence said on Wednesday. The Portrush prospect is situated around 10 kilometres south-east of the producing Statoil-operated Njord field (Faroe 7.5%) and 20 kilometres west of the Shell-operated Draugen field.  The exploration well will target prospective resources […]

  • Atlantic Petroleum Acquires Interest in Barents Sea Block

    19 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Petroleum has reached an agreement with Det norske oljeselskap ASA  to acquire a 10% interest in the Norwegian Licence PL659 in return for carrying a share of the cost of the upcoming exploration well. The agreement is subject to approval by the Norwegian authorities. Det norske is the operator of the Licence now 20%. Other licence […]

  • Transocean adds $158M to backlog through five rig deals

    26 July 2019

    Offshore drilling firm Transocean has added five drilling rig contracts since its previous rig fleet status report in April.

  • No Portrush oil for Shell

    11 September 2015

    Shell has completed drilling at its Portrush exploration well offshore Norway, Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the block has informed. No oil was found. According to Faroe Petroleum, the objective section in the Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Rogn and Melke formations) was encountered with a thickness of about 330 metres, and whilst 134 metres was […]

  • Transocean scraps two, idles three rigs

    10 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has decided to scrap two semi-subs and idle two drillships and one semi-submersible drilling rig. The driller has also been awarded several new contracts.  In its latest fleet status report on Thursday the driller said that the deepwater semi-submersible M.G. Hulme, Jr. and the midwater semi-submersible GSF Rig 140 were classified as held […]

  • Norway: Statoil Reports Successful Appraisal of Skrugard Discovery

    6 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil ASA, together with partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS, is about to complete drilling of appraisal well 7220/5-1 in the Skrugard discovery in the Barents Sea. The objectives of the appraisal well were to confirm the previous volume estimate for the Skrugard discovery and to collect reservoir and overburden data for field development […]

  • Transocean’s plethora of new rig deals fetches $1.2 billion

    20 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Transocean has won a bundle of new contracts and extensions in Mexico, Australia, Norway, Lebanon, and the East Mediterranean Sea.

  • Tullow strikes oil at Hanssen well

    3 July 2014

    Tullow Oil plc announces that the Hanssen wildcat well, in production licence 537, offshore Norway, has encountered a 20-25 metre oil bearing sandstone with good reservoir properties in the main target (Stø Formation). The Hanssen well was drilled about 7 kilometres northwest of the Wisting Central oil discovery and about 315 kilometers north of Hammerfest. […]

  • Popular news, March 1 – 8, 2015

    8 March 2015

      The most read article at Offshore Energy Today this past week was the one on BW Offshore recovering bodies of three Brazilian workers who went missing after an explosion on an FPSO in Brazil, on February 11, 2014. The final death toll from this incident stands at nine. The second most popular article of the […]

  • Three oil & gas firms gearing up for Norwegian wells in February

    31 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Three oil & gas companies have been granted drilling permits by Norwegian authorities for wells in the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea.

  • Dry Barents Sea Well for Repsol (Norway)

    8 April 2013

    Gas shows were recorded in the Paleocene interval although no hydrocarbons were found in the Cretaceous and accordingly the well has been declared dry.

  • Transocean rig gearing up to spud Barents Sea wildcat in April

    11 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Equinor has secured a drilling permit with Norway’s authorities to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea with one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs.

  • Det Norske Spuds Its First Operated Well in Barents Sea

    14 January 2014

    Drilling of Det norske’s first operated well in the Barents Sea starts today 14 January, on the Langlitinden prospect in production license 659. The target for the well (7222/11-2) is to prove hydrocarbons in the Kobbe formation on the Bjarmeland platform. The same structure was drilled in 2008, approximately six kilometers away. Then, a small […]

  • Shell encounters gas at Ormen Lange appraisal well

    14 November 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Shell’s Norwegian subsidiary AS Norske Shell has completed drilling of the appraisal well 6305/8-2 on the Ormen Lange field, offshore Norway. Ormen Lange was proven in 1997 and has been producing since 2007. The reservoir is in Lower Palaeocene and Upper Cretaceous reservoir rocks (Våle formation’s ‘Egga reservoir unit’ and ‘Våle heterolithics’, as well as […]

  • Transocean finds more work for five rigs

    5 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Transocean has secured contract awards and extensions for five drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), North Sea, Norway and Suriname.