Norway
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November 26, 2019
Equinor will reduce its focus on the frontier areas of the Barents Sea in another blow to Norway’s ambition to build a new oil province in its Arctic region.
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February 01, 2018
The West Hercules semisubmersible rig has been contracted for drilling two exploration wells in the Barents Sea in 2018, and options to drill another five exploration wells.
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January 12, 2018
After a disappointing year for drillers, Norwegian authorities are reviewing their hopes for the Nordic country’s hottest exploration area.
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January 10, 2018
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the drilling of the Hurri exploration well 7219/12-3S located in PL533 in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.
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January 04, 2018
Norway beat back an unprecedented lawsuit by environmental groups that sought to curb oil drilling in the country’s Arctic waters.
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March 29, 2017
Russia can wait for a sustained recovery in oil prices before drilling again in Arctic waters, relying for now on less costly regions even as rival producer Norway accelerates development of its northerly fields.
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February 15, 2017
Explorers look set to drill a record number of wells in Norway’s Arctic waters this year, undeterred by oil prices apparently stuck below $60/bbl.
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February 13, 2017
Lundin Petroleum announced that it has made an oil and gas discovery in the main well 7219/12-1 and is presently drilling a sidetrack 7219/12-1A on the Filicudi prospect.
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October 12, 2015
North Energy has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Pure E&P Norway, whereby North Energy sells its 10% interest in PL 708 to Pure.
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September 14, 2015
An engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Johan Sverdrup gooseneck spool and retrofit hot-tap tee has been awarded to IKM Ocean Design by Statoil on behalf of pipeline operator Gassco.
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July 28, 2015
Statoil, Norway’s biggest oil and gas producer, said adjusted earnings after tax fell 27% in the second-quarter following a plunge in crude prices.
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July 06, 2015
Statoil has awarded Baker Hughes Norway the onshore contract for integrated drilling services for Johan Sverdrup.
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July 02, 2015
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has entered into two new data licensing agreements for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS' multi-client data library in the Barents Sea.
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June 15, 2015
Fjords Processing was recently honored by General Electric (GE) through its supplier award, Excellence in Customer Centricity. The prestigious award recognizes suppliers that consistently meet the sourcing critical to quality and price, delivery quality, and demonstrates flexibility and responsiveness to GE.
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June 12, 2015
Lundin Petroleum's wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway has successfully completed the drilling of appraisal well 7220/11-2 and sidetrack 7220/11-2 A in the western part of the Alta discovery in PL609, in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.
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June 09, 2015
Suretank, provider of engineered solutions to the offshore oil and gas industry, has appointed William Wilson as sales manager for Norway.
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May 26, 2015
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a call-off order for delivery of the Safety and Automation System (SAS), Life Cycle Simulator and SAS Information Management System for the four platforms on the Johan Sverdrup field centre in Norway.
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May 21, 2015
Petrofac has been awarded a contract to support maintenance management system (MMS) implementation for Bumi Armada’s North Sea bound FPSO, the Armada Kraken.
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May 21, 2015
Statoil has completed its investigation into a leak on Gudrun platform.
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May 14, 2015
Eni Norge has received consent from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for manned underwater operations at Goliat field.
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May 13, 2015
CGG has announced a western extension of the Horda BroadSeis-BroadSource 3D multi-client program that it began acquiring in the Northern North Sea, offshore Norway, in 2014.
