280 results found for 'transocean barents'

280 results found for 'transocean barents'
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  • Safety nod for Spirit Energy to use Leiv Eiriksson rig in Barents Sea

    29 April 2020
    Authorities & Government, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Oil and gas company Spirit Energy has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea using the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig.

  • Transocean encouraged by upward momentum in oil prices

    22 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Offshore driller Transocean believes that the offshore drilling market is in the early stages of a recovery, despite recording a loss for the fourth quarter of 2017.

  • Lundin Makes New Oil Discovery in Barents Sea

    2 October 2013

    Lundin Petroleum has announced 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 was drilled on PL492 approximately 35 kilometres north of the Snøhvit field […]

  • Greenpeace slams Norway as ‘environmental hypocrite’ after drilling leases awarded

    19 May 2016

    Environmentalists are fuming over latest offshore leases awards in Norway, covering acreage in the Barents Sea. Following the licensing round in which thirteen companies were offered offshore acreage in the area, Greenpeace has slammed the move as a “clear violation of the Paris Climate Change Agreement”. Head of Greenpeace Norway, Truls Gulowsen said: “In Paris […]

  • Dry well at Statoil’s Apollo prospect

    20 June 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil giant Statoil has failed to find oil at its Apollo prospect in the Barents Sea.

  • Wintershall gains go-ahead to drill Barents Sea wildcat

    21 December 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), a government agency whose task is to manage the oil and gas resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, has granted Wintershall a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Barents Sea.  The well 7224/2-1, in production licence 611, will be drilled from the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Arctic following completion […]

  • Greenpeace protesting against ExxonMobil’s Kara Sea drilling plans

    11 June 2014

    Only two weeks after boarding the Transocean Spitsbergen rig on its way to drill a well in the Barents Sea, Greenpeace has a new target. This time it is the West Alpha semi-submersible rig. In a statement issued on their website, the environmental organisation said that their ship Esperanza has entered the fjord in Olen near Haugesund, […]

  • Lundin obtains drilling permit for Barents Sea well

    13 November 2015

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7130/4-1, in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The exploration well will be drilled using the Transocean Arctic drilling rig, after completing the drilling of wildcat well 6406/12-5 S in production licence 586 for VNG Norge AS. The drilling programme for well […]

  • Statoil to drill wildcat in Barents Sea

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7125/4-3 in the production licence 393 B, in the Barents Sea. Well 7125/4-3 will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig,  type Aker H-6e. It was built in 2009 at Aker Stord, is registered in the Bahamas and classified […]

  • Oseberg South find non-commercial

    26 June 2008

    Statoil Hydro has completed drilling its North Sea exploration well on the Osberg South area with the 30/9-21A sidetrack well but results indicate that the hydrocarbon accumulation is non-commercial. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate today the 30/9-21A well in PL104 found hydrocarbons after targeting Upper Jurassic rocks and encountered thin oil zones. The well […]

  • Shell Hires Four Transocean’s Newbuild Drillships (USA)

    28 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Transocean Ltd. today announced that it has been awarded 10-year contracts for four newbuild dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillships by Royal Dutch Shell (Shell). Shipyard delivery for the first drillship is scheduled for mid-2015. The remaining three drillships are expected to be delivered from the shipyard at approximately six-month intervals thereafter. After customer acceptance, the contracts are […]

  • Oil and gas discovery in the Oseberg area – 30/9-21 S

    14 May 2008

    Press release 26/2008: StatoilHydro ASA, operator of production licence PL104, has concluded drilling of exploration well 30/9-21 S in the Oseberg area, about 7 km west of the Oseberg Sør platform. The result of the well indicates a commercial discovery in this area, in close proximity to existing fields. The well was drilled using the […]

  • Norwegian oil & gas players come up dry in North Sea and Barents Sea

    30 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas players Aker BP and Vår Energi have respectively drilled two wells in the North Sea and Barents Sea that turned out to be dry. Aker BP drilled the dry well 24/6-5 Alvheim Deep in the North Sea in production license 203, awarded in 1996, representing the eleventh exploration well drilled in this […]

  • Equinor gives up on oil terminal plan for Johan Castberg project

    13 December 2019
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    The Johan Castberg partners have studied a possible development of a downscaled ship-to-ship oil transfer terminal at Veidnes in Finnmark county in North Norway, and have concluded that the costs of constructing a terminal would be too high.

  • Dry Barents Sea well for Statoil

    11 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 393 B, has completed drilling of wildcat well 7125/4-3 in the Barents Sea. The well is dry.

  • Police removes Greenpeace activists from Statoil’s rig

    29 May 2014

    After 48 hours, the last seven Greenpeace International activists have been removed from Statoil’s oil rig Transocean Spitsbergen in the Barents Sea.

  • Aker BP embarking on drilling ops with Saipem rig in Norwegian waters

    7 May 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Aker BP has secured a drilling permit from Norway’s authorities for two exploration wells in the Barents Sea.

  • 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.

  • Wintershall Encounters Gas Offshore Norway

    21 June 2013

    Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 511, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6406/6-3  in the Norwegian Sea. 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 […]

  • Lundin Makes Minor Oil Discovery Near Snøhvit Field (Norway)

    26 November 2012

    Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 490, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7120/6-3 S in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The well was drilled about 10 kilometres northwest of the Snøhvit field. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks from the Early Cretaceous and Late Jurassic Ages […]

  • 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.

  • 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, […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]