Statoil is awaiting the arrival of two of its Cat J jackup rigs in the Norwegian North Sea, one destined for the Gullfaks field and the other for the Oseberg field. Category J drawing. Image from Statoil…
Statoil’s Gullfaks B platform and associated pipelines will now operate until 30 June 2036 after receiving a consent for use from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA). PSA’s existing consent for the platform – which was installed…
Wood Group has been awarded two new contracts by Statoil to deliver concept and feasibility studies to their Norwegian North Sea assets. Wood Group will deliver a topside concept study evaluating the tie in of Total’s Garantiana field development to Statoil’s Gullfaks B and Visund facilities…
Statoil has found oil and gas in a wildcat well, close to the Gullfaks field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled from the Gullfaks C platform to a structure east of the Gimle field, about 7km northeast of the…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation into a lifting incident involving pipehandling on the Gullfaks B facility in the North Sea on 7 March 2017. Part of the Eagle Arm crane on this platform came loose and fell to the pipedeck…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA)carried out an audit of Statoil's management of operations and barriers at Gullfaks B in the North Sea that disclosed several safety issues. The audit, carried out from 21 to 29 November 2016,…
Baker Hughes and Schlumberger are to be awarded contracts for integrated drilling and well services on Statoil's two new Cat J jackup rigs, Askepott (translated as Cinderella) and Askeladden (a character from Norwegian folklore). The…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has carried out an audit of Statoil's management of the subsea compression project at Gullfaks. Map of Gullfaks, from Statoil. In 2015…
Gullfaks was Statoil’s first field where the company was both developer and operator. Since production started 30 years ago on 22 December 1986, 2.6 billion bbl have passed the loading buoys. Image of Gullfaks C on its way to the field in 1989…
The Gullfaks subsea multiphase compression project made waves last year, becoming the first of its kind. In June, four people involved in the project won the Underwater Technology Foundation’s Subsea Award at the Underwater Technology Conference…
Statoil has gotten a four-month early start at its Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen (GRD) field, which was scheduled for start-up on 24 December. The project has worked faster and now the field is onstream – at lower costs than planned, the company said…
Statoil has been given the green light to use the Gullfaks B platform in the Norwegian North Sea until 2036. Statoil says Gullfaks B, which first came on stream in February 1988, could be operated profitably up to 2031, and possibly even…
Quest Offshore provides a look at subsea processing systems by type. Subsea Processing Project List (Onstream 2010+) Subsea Processing Application Region Operator Project Boosting Africa/Mediterranean…
Four individuals from the operating and contracting community have been chosen as the winners of this year’s Underwater Technology Foundation (UTF) Subsea Award for their efforts in seeing a new technology through qualification and into engineering…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted its consent to Statoil and its partners in Gullfaks production license 050 to start-up the facilities on the Rutil deposit on Gullfaks South, and to start producing. Illustration of Rutil…
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