280 results found for 'transocean barents'

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  • Vår Energi makes ‘largest discovery of the year’ in Barents Sea

    23 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi has made what is said is the “largest discovery of the year” in the Goliat area in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. Vår Energi confirmed on 23 December the discovery of gas in its operated 7122/9-1 T2 Lupa well. Preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery are between […]

  • Lundin Spuds Barents Sea Well (Norway)

    11 October 2012

    Swedish independent Lundin Petroleum yesterday afternoon started the drilling of well 7120/6-3 S in PL490 on the Snurrevad-Juksa prospect in the Barents Sea, some 10 kilometers north of Snøhvit field. The main objective of the well is to prove the presence of hydrocarbons in lower Cretaceous/upper Jurassic reservoirs.  Transocean Arctic semi submersible drilling rig is […]

  • Statoil gets nod from Norwegian Environment Agency for Pingvin drilling

    10 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Statoil, as operator for PL 713, located in the Barents Sea offshore Norway, has received permission from the Norwegian Environment Agency to drill in the oil-bearing strata in exploration well 7319/12-1 Pingvin, and this operation has now resumed. The top hole has been drilled, and results from the well are expected during September. The partners in the licence […]

  • Greenpeace boards Transocean Spitsbergen rig

    27 May 2014

    On the morning of 27 May Greenpeace activists boarded the drilling rig Transocean Spitsbergen. The rig was en route to the Hoop area in the Barents Sea.

  • Wellesley gets consent to use Transocean rig for North Sea well duo

    30 November 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Wellesley Petroleum has received consent from the PSA to drill exploration wells in the North Sea with the Transocean Arctic rig.

  • Transocean delays Jurong drillship delivery again

    21 October 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has delayed the delivery of one of the two ultra-deepwater drillships it has under construction at the Jurong shipyard in Singapore.

  • Rosneft, Statoil Begin Pingvin Drilling in Barents Sea

    18 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Rosneft together with Norwegian company Statoil Petroleum AS started exploration operations at the Pingvin License PL713 prospect in the Norwegian section of the Barents Sea. The first exploration well Pingvin-1 will be drilled by the Transocean Spitsbergen rig. The water depth is 422 meters and the drilling target total vertical depth (TVD) is 1516 meters. […]

  • Greenpeace, Statoil in another Arctic drilling spat

    20 June 2014

    “The threat  to nearby nature reserve Bear Island is still not over”, Greenpeace has warned today, after it has been announced that Statoil failed to find oil at the Apollo well in the Barents Sea. “Although the Apollo well is dry, the threat that Statoil poses to Bear Island and the rest of the Arctic […]

  • Equinor’s new oil discovery could add ‘valuable volumes’ to Barents Sea project

    25 May 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has made a new oil discovery in Snøfonn Nord with the exploration well 7220/8-2 S, located by the Johan Castberg field development in the Barents Sea. This proximity to the current project development enables the tieback option, which will be considered by Equinor and its partners. Equinor received a […]

  • Lundin Makes Discovery in Gohta Prospect, Norway

    10 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Det norske oljeselskap ASA has made an oil and gas discovery in the Lundin Petroleum-operated Gohta prospect in PL 492 in the Barents Sea. Det company holds a 40 percent ownership interest in the license. Lundin Petroleum is in the process of completing the drilling operations in well 7120/1-3, which is situated about 35 kilometres northwest […]

  • Lundin Strikes Gas Off Norway

    5 October 2012

    Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, announced that exploration well 7220/10-1 in PL533 has discovered gas condensate in the Salina structure located on the west flank of the Loppa High in the Barents Sea. Well 7220/10-1 has proved two gas columns in sandstone of Cretaceous and Jurassic age. Data acquisition in the […]

  • Statoil: Barents sea exploration is marathon, not sprint

    7 November 2014

    Statoil has completed its 2013-2014 exploration program in the Barents Sea. According to the Norwegian oil giant, this represents an all-time high exploration activity and 10% of all exploration wells drilled in the Barents Sea since its opening in 1980.   “This is a unique exploration program. A commitment of this size and complexity requires geological, […]

  • Statoil makes small gas discovery in Barents Sea

    10 October 2014

    Norway’s Statoil, operator of production licence 714, is currently completing the drilling of wildcat well 7220/2-1 in the Barents Sea.

  • Statoil finds gas traces in Pingvin well off Norway

    19 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    North Energy has informed that as a partner in production licence 713, in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway, the company is completing the drilling of the Pingvin prospect in exploration well 7319/12-1. The well has identified gas in a sandstone reservoir. Extensive data has been acquired from the well through coring, wireline logging and liquid […]

  • Statoil gets nod for Apollo well in Barents Sea

    23 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7324/2-1 in the Barents Sea. Well 7324/2-1 (Apollo) will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen drilling facility at position 73°51’47.90″ north and 24°32’29.90″ east. The drilling program for well 7324/2-1 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence […]

  • Equinor set to drill Mist well

    20 December 2019
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat well located in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.

  • Lundin Strikes Gas Near Snohvit Field, Offshore Norway

    8 July 2011

    Lundin Norway AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), operator of production licence 438, has completed well 7120/2-3S on the Skalle prospect as a gas discovery. A comprehensive logging and coring program has been acquired. The well is situated approximately 25 kilometers north of the Snøhvit Field in the south western […]

  • Rosneft, Statoil begin Pingvin drilling

    18 August 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Russia’s Rosneft has announced that it has, together with Statoil, started exploration operations at the Pingvin prospect in the Norwegian section of the Barents Sea.

  • Lundin Strikes Gas at Skalle Prospect Offshore Norway

    8 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Norway AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), operator of production licence 438, has completed well 7120/2-3S on the Skalle prospect as a gas discovery. A comprehensive logging and coring program has been acquired. The well is situated approximately 25 kilometers north of the Snøhvit Field in the south western […]

  • Popular offshore industry news in 1Q 2019

    1 January 2020

    The most popular news at Offshore Energy Today during the first quarter of 2019.

  • Lundin Completes Drilling at PL490 (Norway)

    19 November 2012

    Lundin Petroleum AB is in the process of completing the drilling of exploration well 7120/6-3 S in PL490 in Barents Sea, offshore northern Norway. . The well targeted two levels in the Snurrevad-Juksa prospect situated 10 km north west of the Snøhvit field. The main objective of the well was to prove the presence of hydrocarbons […]

  • Equinor gets more info on oil discovery to gauge development option

    2 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Equinor has wrapped up drilling activities at an appraisal well in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway with one of Odfjell Drilling’s rigs.

  • Popular news, May 25 – 31, 2015

    31 May 2015

    As the end of the last week of May approaches, we are bringing the weekly summary of the most popular articles on Offshore Energy Today. The most read story was the one on a man who was sentenced for lying to Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) inspectors in relation to the veracity of blowout preventer […]

  • Statoil Drills Dry Well in Norwegian Sea

    9 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 312, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 6407/3-1 S. The well was drilled about 5 kilometres north of the Mikkel field in the Norwegian Sea. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (the […]

  • Statoil Strikes Gas in North Sea

    11 April 2014

    Statoil of Norway has together with the Valemon Unit partners made a gas and oil discovery in the Valemon Nord prospect in the North Sea. The discovery wells 34/10-54 S and 34/10-54 A, drilled by the drilling rig Transocean Leader, are located approximately 10 kilometres north of the planned Valemon installation. The main wellbore 34/10-54 […]