Austrian oil company OMV has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea with the Island Innovator rig. OMV (Norge) AS, OMV’s Norwegian subsidiary, has now been given the consent to drill the wildcat
Aquamarine Subsea has been awarded a frame agreement with offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore for classing of high-pressure manifolds on Songa’s four Cat D rigs. Aquamarine said that the duration of the contract was five years with an option to extend the deal for an additional five years. T
Offshore driller COSL Drilling Europe has received a letter of intent from Nexen Petroleum U.K. to carry out plugging and abandonment work at the Ettrick and Blackbird fields in the UK sector of the North Sea. The work, which will be conducted with the semi-submersible drilling rig COSLPioneer, incl
Denmark’s Port of Esbjerg on Monday shared a photo on its social media channels showing the Maersk Drilling-owned jack-up rig Maersk Resolve leaving the port. The port said that the rig left this past weekend after an idle period and warm stacking, heading for the Winchelsea II well in UK sector of
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for wellbore 7325/4-1, in the Barents Sea off Norway. The permit comes after the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), Norway’s offshore safety body, gave Statoil consent to use the Songa Enabler drilling rig for the well. T
DEA Norge has received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to drill a shallow gas well on the Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea using the Songa Encourage drilling rig. The goal of the shallow gas pilot well, designated 6507/7-U-10, is to exclude the
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Faroe Petroleum Norge a drilling permit for the well 31/7-2 A, offshore Norway. The well 31/7-2 A will be drilled from the Deepsea Bergen drilling rig in production license 740 in the North Sea, which contains the Brasse discovery. The drilling p
Statoil and partners Eni and Petoro have made an oil discovery in the Kayak well in the Johan Castberg license, offshore Norway. Statoil received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to drill the Kayak well with the Songa Enabler drilling rig in April and a drilling permit from the Norwegian
Oil and gas company Faroe Petroleum has seen “outstanding flow rates and reservoir quality” in the Brasse appraisal well in the Norwegian North Sea as it gears up for a side-track well. The 31/7-2 S well was drilled from the Deepsea Bergen semi-submersible drilling rig. According to Faroe’s Monday u
Norwegian oil firm Statoil will soon start a three-well exploration drilling campaign on the UK continental shelf. In early July, the semi-submersible rig Transocean Spitsbergen will spud the first well in the campaign, the oil company said on Monday. The rig has recently mobilized from Bergen, Norw
Oil firm Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for exploration drilling in block 7435/12 in the Barents Sea with the Songa Enabler drilling rig. The offshore safety regulator reported on Friday that the wells 7435/12-1 and 7435/12-U-1 will be drilled in a prospect na
Norwegian oil company Statoil has released a video of its new Cat J jack-up drilling rig at the Samsung yard in South Korea before it headed to Norway. According to Statoil’s Thursday update on social media channels, the Askeladden rig, which is the first of two Cat J rigs, is now finished and on it
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for wildcat well 7220/6-3 in the Barents Sea. Earlier this week, the Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority, granted Lundin consent to drill the 7220/6-3 well using the Ocean Rig-owned Leiv
Oil company Lundin has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea using the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig. The well 7220/6-3 is located in production license 609 where Lundin is the operator with 40 percent interest. Other licensees are Idemi
