Norwegian Supreme Court has ruled against environmental groups and in favour of the government following a lawsuit claiming the government violated the people’s right to a healthy environment by issuing new exploration licences for Arctic drilling.
Equinor has decided to invest NOK 3 billion ($342.8 million) in the Statfjord Øst field to improve recovery by 23 million barrels of oil equivalent.
ConocoPhillips has made a new oil discovery in production license 891 located 14 miles north-northeast of the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea.
Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety watchdog to use the Deepsea Atlantic rig on a well in the North Sea off Norway.
Wintershall Dea has exercised two options in a platform drilling services contract with Odfjell Drilling on the Brage platform off Norway.
Norwegian authorities have granted consent for the start-up of two new wells on the Neptune Energy-operated Gjøa field in the North Sea.
Offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling has secured more work for its Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig with Equinor for operations in Norway.
OKEA has signed an agreement with Repsol for the acquisition of Repsol’s 40 per cent interest in PL 972, which includes the Vette oil discovery.
Aker BP and the Skarv partners – Equinor, Wintershall Dea, and PGNiG – have decided to develop the Gråsel discovery located offshore Norway in 2021.
A revised Strategy from the UK OGA, featuring a range of new net-zero obligations for the UK oil & gas industry, was submitted before the UK Parliament.
Energean has completed its acquisition of Edison E&P. Energean has also entered into new gas sales agreements to supply the gas in Israel.
After being converted to a low-emission rig, Maersk Intrepid has entered operations as the first Maersk Drilling rig to feature this set of upgrades.
Northern Offshore and EnQuest have submitted combined decommissioning programmes for the Northern Producer FPF to the UK authorities.
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has awarded Aker Solutions a contract for the hook-up of the fifth platform on the Johan Sverdrup field off Norway.
