Turret specialist SBM Offshore has contracted Dubai based Drydocks World to construct the turret mooring system for Statoil’s Johan Castberg floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The Johan Castberg FPSO will be permanently…
SBM Offshore has been awarded a contract for the delivery of a turret mooring system for Statoil's US$5.9 billion Johan Castberg floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The Norwegian Barents Sea project will tap an…
Norway's Statoil, with partners Eni (30%) and Petoro (20%), has submiited a plan for US$5.9 billion (NOK49 billion) development and operation for the Johan Castberg field in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The development cost is more than half of the original estimated cost for the project…
Swedish headquartered Lundin Petroleum has started drilling on the Hurri prospect in the southern Barents Sea, offshore Norway. Exploration well 7219/12-3, in PL533, is about 2 km southwest of the Filicudi oil discovery and south of the Statoil-operated Johan Castberg development…
Statoil has picked Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters for the hull and living quarters for its Johan Castberg floating production development in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Statoil has signed a letter of intent with Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters…
Lundin has started drilling on the Hufsa exploration well in PL533 in the southern Norwegian Barents Sea. The well (7219/12-2) is south of the Filicudi oil discovery and the large Statoil-operated Johan Castberg oil discovery. The…
Having a power hub, to supply future Barents Sea developments, could help operators mitigate CO2 emissions – and the regulations that they could come up against. Marius Kluge Foss, of Rystad Energy, explains. The Barents Sea is the last Norwegian oil province with anticipated future growth…
One of the most anticipated exploration wells in Europe this year was the multi-billion barrel potential Arctic Korpfjell prospect in the Barents Sea. While the probe, completed late September, didn't prove commercial volumes, the region…
Statoil and partners ENI and Petoro have made a 25-50 MMboe oil discovery in the Kayak exploration well in the Barents Sea, close to the Johan Castberg project. Eni said preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery are between 100 and 180 MMbo in place (25–50 MMbo recoverable)…
Statoil says it is about to start its exploration program in the Barents Sea testing five to seven new opportunities over the next six months. The program will test new targets, both in the relatively well known geology around in the Johan Castberg and Hoop/Wisting area…
Statoil has selected a consortium led by GE Water & Process Technologies and Halvorsen TEC to supply a complete seawater sulfate removal unit (SRU) to help protect production wells in Statoil’s Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway…
Swedish oil explorer Lundin Petroleum says its 35-100 MMboe gross resource oil and gas discovery in its Filicudi exploration well in the Barents Sea has 'significant upside potential.' The well, 7219/12-1, is in PL533, which could contain up to 700 MMboe unrisked prospective resource…
ABB has signed a project specific agreement for the safety and automation system with Statoil for the Johan Castberg offshore oil field development. Statoil has issued the first call-off from the agreement covering front-end engineering and design (FEED)…
Sweden's Lundin has made a ca. 25-60 MMboe oil and gas discovery on the Loppa High, 20km east of the Johan Castberg discovery in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The well, 7220/6-2 R, was drilled on the Neiden prospect in production license 609…
Statoil decided to temporarily suspend the Songa Enabler mobile rig, which was originally scheduled for drilling for the Johan Castberg license. The Songa Enabler, from Songa. The…
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