Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies has been awarded a contract for delivery of an extended concept study and pre-front end engineering design (FEED) on infield flowline and riser systems for the Statoil-operated Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea…
Statoil announced further delay in developing the Johan Castberg project, postponing final concept selection on the Barents Sea project until 2015. “Unfortunately, the exploration campaign has proven less new oil resources in the Castberg area than expected…
UK-based energy analysts Wood Mackenzie have suggested Statoil and its partners use a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel option for on the Johan Castberg development in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The firm undertook an analysis of the project…
Norway’s state oil firm Petoro has said it wants to double the number of wells on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and halve their cost in order to realize the great potential of discoveries and existing fields in the Norwegian State’s Direct Financial Interest (SDFI) portfolio…
Doubt still hangs over Statoil’s Barents Sea Johan Castberg project after the firm made an oil and gas discovery in its fifth and final exploration program around the field. The latest well, 7220/7-3 S, was on the Drivis prospect in production license (PL) 532…
Statoil has made a small gas discovery in the Kramsnø prospect in production license 532, near to the Johan Castberg oil field, in the Barents Sea. The discovery is the fourth well in a five-well drilling campaign targeting oil in PL532…
Statoil ASA and partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS made an oil and gas discovery in the Skavl prospect in PL532, close to Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea. Well 7220/7-2 S, drilled by the semisubmersible rig West Hercules, proved a 22m…
Statoil ASA and partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro AS have made an oil and gas discovery in the Skavl prospect in PL532, close to Johan Castberg in the Barents Sea. Well 7220/7-2 S, drilled by the semisubmersible rig West Hercules, proved a…
Eni Norge has opened a new operations center in Hammerfest as part of its expansion in northern Norway and the Barents Sea. The Italian company has been active in the region since the start of the 1990s and is developing the Goliat oil field…
Statoil is to continue its Barents Sea exploration campaign in 2014, with 5-7 new wells planned. The Norwegian oil firm is planning to test potential in the Hoop area, where OMV made the recent play-opening Wisting Central discovery…
Statoil ASA, along with partners Eni Norge and Petoro, made a gas discovery at the Iskrystall prospect on PL608 off Norway in the Barents Sea. The well is approximately 30km southwest of 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg and about 240km north of Hammerfest…
OMV discovered up to164 million barrels of recoverable oil in the Wisting Central exploration well 7324/8-1, within the Hoop-Maud Basin in the Barents Sea. The company found between 63 million and 164 million barrels of oil in the relatively shallow parts of the Barents Sea…
Norway’s Statoil has awarded Aker Solutions a NOK250 million contract to carry out an extended concept study for a floating production system for the Johan Castberg oilfield development in the Barents Sea. The Johan Castberg field, in PL 532…
Lundin Petroleum AB commenced drilling of exploration well 7120/1-3 in PL492 in the Barents Sea. The well will target the Gohta prospect, which is located 150km northwest of the Norwegian coast, approximately 185km northwest of Hammerfest…
Statoil announced it will delay an investment decision on its Johan Castberg project in the Norwegian Barents Sea due to unease regarding recent move by the Norwegian government to increase taxes on oil and gas producers. In addition to the tax rise…