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Onshore-Powered Offshore Field Starts Production
From left: the Maersk Intrepid jack-up rig, the Martin Linge platform, and the Floatel Endurance. PHOTO SOURCE: Jan Arne Wold & Øyving Gravås/Equinor
8:00 PM EST | July 01, 2021
Well Plugging Starts in Pioneering North Sea Field
Plugging operations began last month in conjunction with the planned shutdown of the Veslefrikk field. PHOTO SOURCE: Øyvind Hagen/Equinor
7:00 PM EST | February 22, 2021
Odfjell Drilling Signs Equinor Contracts for At Least 27 Wells
Odfjell Drilling has signed final rig contracts for a pair of previously announced Equinor drilling campaigns.
7:00 PM EST | November 23, 2020
Odfjell Drilling Wins Contract for 15 Wells
Equinor has contracted an Odfjell Drilling semisub for the Breidablikk project in the North Sea. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
8:00 PM EST | October 05, 2020
Maersk Rig Drilling New Martin Linge Wells
Equinor has identified well barrier deficiencies in four Martin Linge gas wells. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
8:00 PM EST | September 08, 2020
Aibel Wins Hammerfest LNG Contract
The Hammerfest LNG terminal, above, on Melkoya Island near Hammerfest, Norway liquefies gas from the Snohvit field in the Barents Sea. PHOTO SOURCE: Aibel
8:00 PM EST | September 02, 2020
Equinor Contracts Odfjell Rig for Up to 17 Wells
Odfjell's Deepsea Atlantic semi-sub, above, will return to Johan Sverdrup. Photo by Marit Hommedal. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor ASA
8:00 PM EST | July 07, 2020
Equinor Plans to Power Offshore Platforms with Wind
A rendering of the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm between the Gullfaks and Snorre licenses in the North Sea. Illustration copyright Equinor AS
8:00 PM EST | April 08, 2020
Equinor, Partners to Develop Next Phase of Johan Sverdrup
Equinor and partners submit the development plan for the second phase of the Johan Sverdrup project.
8:00 PM EST | August 26, 2018
Norway's Parliament Approves Plan for Arctic Oilfield
Norway's parliament gave a green light for Equinor's 47.2 billion Norwegian crown ($5.85 billion) plan to develop the Johan Castberg oilfield in the Arctic Barents Sea.
8:00 PM EST | June 10, 2018
Iceland's Oil Dream in Peril as China, Norway Give Up Last Block
Iceland's hope of finding oil offshore its coast is fading.
7:00 PM EST | January 22, 2018
Aker Solutions Secures Johan Sverdrup Phase 2 FEED Contract
Aker Solutions secures a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract from Statoil for the second phase of the Johan Sverdrup development offshore Norway.
8:00 PM EST | March 20, 2017
NPD Grants Consent for the Expansion of Nyhamna Gas Plant
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate grants consent for the expansion of the gas plant at Nyhamna, which will allow the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea to increase production.
7:00 PM EST | February 09, 2017
Statoil Granted North Sea Drilling Permit by NPD
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 16/2-22 S, located offshore Norway.
7:00 PM EST | December 20, 2016
OMV Says Wisting Arctic Discovery May Exceed 1B Barrels
OMV's Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea could contain more than 1 billion barrels of oil equivalents, potentially making it the largest find in the Norwegian Arctic so far.
7:00 PM EST | November 16, 2016
NPD Grants Statoil Lifetime Extension for Gullfaks B
The NPD grants Statoil permission to use the B platform on the Gullfaks field in the North Sea until January 1, 2036, which corresponds to the length of the production license.
8:00 PM EST | August 24, 2016
NPD Grants Wintershall Drilling Permit Offshore Norway
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate grants Wintershall Norge AS a drilling permit for well 35/11-20 B, located in production license 248 F.
8:00 PM EST | August 08, 2016
Western Europe's Top Oil Producer Has a Surprise for Markets
For Norway, the collapse in crude prices has a silver lining: output has exceeded expectations every month for the past two years.
8:00 PM EST | August 07, 2016
Rosenberg Secures Fabrication Contract for Johan Sverdrup
Rosenberg WorleyParsons AS secures a contract for the fabrication of three bridges and two flare towers for the Johan Sverdrup project.
8:00 PM EST | June 02, 2016
NPD Grants Wintershall Drilling Permit for North Sea Well
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate grants Wintershall Norge AS a drilling permit for wellbore 35/11-19 S, located in production license 248 F in the North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | May 12, 2016
Lundin Petroleum Q1 Beats Forecast, Raises Sverdrup Capacity Estimate
Lundin Petroleum raises output estimates for the first phase of the giant Johan Sverdrup field as it beats 1Q core earnings expectations.
8:00 PM EST | May 10, 2016
OMV Increases Production in 1Q 2016
OMV Aktiengesellschaft's hydrocarbon production in 1Q increases by 1% over the previous quarter to 312,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
8:00 PM EST | April 20, 2016
Statoil Says to Cut Cost of Castberg Field by Another NOK 4B
Norwegian oil major Statoil plans to cut the estimated cost of developing its Arctic Johan Castberg oilfield by another $491.53 million, project director Erik Strand Tellefsen tells an energy conference.
8:00 PM EST | April 19, 2016
OMV: Wisting Central II Achieves 5,000 Bopd Flow Rate
The Wisting Central II horizontal appraisal well in the Barents Sea achieves flow rates of over 5,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
8:00 PM EST | April 05, 2016
Royal Boskalis Awarded Johan Sverdrup Services Contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. secures a contract by Samsung Heavy Industries for the transportation of topside modules for the Johan Sverdrup project, offshore Norway.
8:00 PM EST | March 31, 2016
Aker to Deliver Johan Sverdrup Concept Study
Aker Solutions will work on a concept study for a new processing platform for future phases of the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup North Sea field.
7:00 PM EST | February 09, 2016
Faroe Petroleum: Drilling Begins at Kvalross Well
Drilling commences on the Kvalross exploration well 7224/2-1, which is located in PL611 in the Norwegian Barents Sea.
7:00 PM EST | January 11, 2016
Statoil Submits Rare $940 Million Plan Amid Oil-Price Rout
Statoil is forging ahead with a $940 million project designed to squeeze more oil and gas out of the Oseberg area of the North Sea, a rare investment decision amid a collapse of crude prices.
7:00 PM EST | December 17, 2015
Petoro: Cash Flow from Norway O&G SDFI Decreases YOY
Net cash flow from the Norwegian state's direct financial interest in oil and gas operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf reduces by $234.73 million, to $1.99 billion, year on year in 3Q 2015.
7:00 PM EST | November 02, 2015
Aibel Secures Johan Sverdrup Power Supply Contract
Aibel secures a contract for the construction of a converter station at Haugsneset and required construction site work for land-based power supply to the Johan Sverdrup field.
8:00 PM EST | October 14, 2015
FMC Kongsberg Secures Johan Sverdrup EPC Contract
FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS secures an EPC contract, worth an estimated $160 million, for subsea equipment for the Johan Sverdrup project.
8:00 PM EST | September 17, 2015
Norway Approves Wintershall's Maria Oil Field Development
Norway approves Wintershall's plan to develop the Maria oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea.
8:00 PM EST | September 03, 2015
NPD Grants Statoil Drilling Permit in North Sea
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate grants Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 25/11-28, located in the central part of the North Sea in production license 169.
8:00 PM EST | August 26, 2015
First Phase of Johan Sverdrup Development Approved
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy approves the first phase of development for the Johan Sverdrup field.
8:00 PM EST | August 20, 2015
Det Norske to Appeal Sverdrup Oilfield Ownership, 2Q Earnings Lag
Norway's Det norske oljeselskap plans to appeal a government decisions giving it a smaller stake in the giant Johan Sverdrup oilfield.
8:00 PM EST | July 14, 2015
Norway Decides on Johan Sverdrup Ownership Interests
The Norwegian government decides on how the Johan Sverdrup field will be split among its five owners.
8:00 PM EST | July 01, 2015
Odfjell Drilling Wins North Sea Contracts Worth up to $1.04 Billion
Statoil awards rig firm Odfjell Drilling contracts worth up to $1.04 billion for work on the giant Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | June 14, 2015
Wintershall Completes Takeover of Vega Field in the North Sea
Germany's Wintershall completes the takeover from Statoil of the operatorship of the Vega subsea oil and gas field offshore Norway.
7:00 PM EST | March 03, 2015
NPD Processes Rutil Development Plan
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate processes the plan for the development of the Rutil discovery in the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen area of the North Sea.
7:00 PM EST | January 08, 2015
NPD: Norway's Ormen Lange Appraisal Well Does Not Change Resource Estimate
Shell drilled an appraisal well on its Ormen Lange gas field in Norway and though it hit a large gas column, there is no basis to change the recoverable resource estimate, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate says.
7:00 PM EST | November 13, 2014
Statoil Finds up to 80M Barrels of Oil near Grane Field
Statoil says it has proved new oil resources of up to 80 million barrels of recoverable oil in the Norwegian North Sea near the Grane field.
8:00 PM EST | October 20, 2014
Norway's Petoro: Oil Firms Must Drill More And Halve Costs
Energy firms need to halve the costs of drilling for oil and gas off Norway and drill twice as many wells per year to prolong the country's oil and gas production, Petoro says.
8:00 PM EST | May 07, 2014
Statoil Discovers up to 63M Barrels in Barents Sea
Statoil makes an oil and gas discovery of up to 63 million barrels at its Drivis prospect in the Barents Sea.
8:00 PM EST | May 01, 2014
Statoil Discovers up to 75M Barrels at Valemon Nord
Statoil adds to its Valemon Unit area resources with a discovery of between 20 and 75 million barrels of gas and oil at its Valemon Nord prospect in the North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | April 10, 2014
Statoil Spuds New Appraisal Well over Johan Sverdrup
Norway's Statoil begins drilling appraisal well 16/2-19 on the Johan Sverdrup discovery in the North Sea.
7:00 PM EST | March 03, 2014
Debate over Langlitinden Discovery's Commercial Potential
There is a question mark over whether oil discovered at the Langlitinden well in the Barents Sea will prove economically recoverable.
7:00 PM EST | February 20, 2014
Hydrocarbon Shows in Langlitinden Well in Barents Sea
Partners in the Langlitinden well in the Barents Sea say that core samples have identified hydrocarbon shows.
7:00 PM EST | February 09, 2014
Det Norske Spuds Barents Sea Well
Det norske oljeselskap drills exploration well targeting the Langlitlinden prospect in the Barents Sea.
7:00 PM EST | January 13, 2014
GE Supplies Subsea Production Systems for Troll
GE Oil & Gas is supplying Statoil Petroleum with its fifth generation SemStar5 Subsea Electronics Module to upgrade and extend the life of the subsea production control system for the Troll B field.
7:00 PM EST | January 12, 2014
Kristin Gas Export Project Terminated
Unsustainable project economics force partners to terminate the Kristin Gas Export Project.
7:00 PM EST | January 08, 2014