Statoil's Aasta Hansteen spar hull has been unloaded from Boskalis' Dockwise Vanguard heavy lift vessel and is being 'righted' in a fjord in Norway. The process in Sunnhordland will take days as tens of thousands of water are pumped to move the spar from horizontal to vertical…
Facilities transport records have been broken and broken again by Dutch marine contractor Boskalis’ Dockwise business. Elaine Maslin reports. Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen spar being loaded onto the Dockwise Vanguard in South Korea…
At 2:30 p.m. South Korean local time, Statoil's huge Aasta Hansteen spar - the world's largest and Norway's first - set sail from Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard, bound for Norway. The journey, aboard Boskalis' Dockwise Vanguard heavy transport vessel is about 14…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Gassco consent to use the Polarled pipeline. Polarled is a new gas pipeline from Aasta Hansteen in the Norwegian Sea to the Nyhamna gas-processing facility in Møre og Romsdal county…
Statoil has hired the Transocean Spitsbergen semisubmersible rig to drill a total of nine wells offshore the UK and Norway, in a US$113 million deal. From left: Ian Paterson (Transocean Drilling UK)…
Spain's Repsol has cleared a hurdle to drill the Stordal prospect in the Norwegian Sea using Transocean's semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Spitsbergen. The Petroleum Safety Authority has given the firm permission to drill the Stordal well 6705/7-1 in 1410m water depth…
Spain's Repsol has been given the green light to drill a well on the Napoleon North license in the Norwegian Sea using the Transocean Spitsbergen Drilling rig. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate says well 6705/7-1, targeting the Stordal prospect…
Norway’s deepest yet oilfield development is bringing a string of firsts to the Norwegian Continental Shelf, not least when it comes to the field’s flowlines. Elaine Maslin reports. BuBi pipe fabrication at Vigra…
In this video, Statoil shows a timelapse of installation work at Aasta Hansteen conducted by Subsea 7. Pipelines, risers and spools were installed and hooked up to subsea templates and umbilicals that were installed last year. The…
Elaine Maslin reports on the progress of Aasta Hansteen, Norway’s first spar development. Aasta Hansteen topside under construction at HHI. Living quarters in place. Images from Statoil. Statoil’s…
Aasta Hansteen is the world's largest Spar-platform, and will be the first in Norway. The substructure is 200m-long, 50m in diameter and will weigh about 45,000-tonne. This summer the final mega block weighing 4500-tonne was installed and the substructure reached its full shape…
Statoil's Aasta Hansteen Spar development substructure has reached its complete form in its yard in South Korea. The Spar will be the world's largest Spar platform weighing in at a whopping 70,000-tonne, and Norway's first Spar development…
PGS’s newest Ramform Titan-class survey vessel, the Ramform Tethys,has made her first project a new world towing record by drawing the world's largest seismic spread. Image of the Ramford Tethys…
Statoil has decided to cancel the contract with Seadrill for the West Hercules semisubmersible drilling rig. The rig has been on contract with Statoil since 31 January 2013, performing an exploration campaign offshore Newfoundland in Canada for the past 18 months…
In this video, Statoil shows the Aasta Hansteen platform taking shape in the Norwegian Sea. Earlier this month, the third mega block was lifted into place, weighing 5700 tons. The hull will be 200m long and have a diameter of 50m…
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