Aker BP has received consents from the PSA for the use of the Deepsea Stavanger and Maersk Invincible rigs for exploration drilling and development of Valhall Flank West, respectively.
Oil & Gas UK, a representative body for the UK’s offshore industry, has said that there are no winners following Greenpeace’s 12-day protest over BP’s drilling plans in the UK North Sea.
Maersk Drilling has completed the sale of its jack-up rig Giant – formerly named Mærsk Giant – to the LOTOS Petrobaltic Group.
Environmental group Greenpeace has ended its protest in Scotland targeting BP-chartered drilling rig for its UK North Sea drilling operations after twelve days.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Capricorn Norge a drilling permit for a well located in the Norwegian Sea.
Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil and gas company KazMunayGas (KMG) has delivered a jack-up drilling rig named Satti to Azerbaijan’s SOCAR for operations in Azerbaijan’s sector of the Caspian Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for a well, which is located in the Norwegian Sea.
Lundin Norway has made two oil discoveries in exploration wells 16/1-31 S (Jorvik) and 16/1-31 A (Tellus East) on the eastern edge of the Edvard Grieg field in PL338 on the Utsira High off Norway.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for well 6507/2-5 S, which is located in the Norwegian Sea.
Greenpeace says it is like groundhog day for a BP-chartered drilling rig in the North Sea as the rig has made its third U-turn in as many days with activists at its tail the whole time.
The Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship, has forced a BP-chartered drilling rig – Paul B. Loyd, Jr. – to make its second U-turn in the North Sea in less than 48 hours.
Early on Sunday afternoon a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, got ahead of the BP-chartered drilling rig Paul B. Loyd, Jr. 83 miles off Scotland and near the drill site of a new well in the North Sea as part of a protest that has been going on for over a week now.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea to Aker BP.
Equinor has made an oil and gas discovery in 6507/3-13. exploration well in the production license 159B the Norwegian Sea, and is thinking of a potential tie-up with the nearby Norne FPSO
