Snorre News

Intervening on Pompano

Apr 01, 2015

Unique fields deserve equally unique intervention solutions when production begins to wane, this was the challenge Stone Energy had to meet when it contracted Cross Group to develop new methodology and technology for its Pompano subsea production template…

Knarr FPSO fire under investigation

Mar 26, 2015

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) is investigating a fire that broke out on the Petrojarl Knarr floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) in the Knarr field, North Sea. Petrojarl Knarr achieving first oil…

BG starts-up Knarr FPSO

Mar 18, 2015

First production has started from the BG Group-operated Knarr field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Knarr, discovered in 2008, with estimated gross recoverable reserves around 80 MMboe, is being produced from two subsea templates…

Lundin starts Morkel probe

Mar 04, 2015

Lundin Petroleum started drilling exploration well 33/2-2S in PL579 on the Morkel prospect in the Norwegian Sea. Morkel is 180km west of Florø on the Norwegian west coast and approximately 40km northwest of the Snorre field. The main…

Storm prospect sub-commercial

Dec 23, 2014

Swedish exploration and production firm Lundin Petroleum says it has made a sub-commercial discovery on the Storm prospect, offshore Norway. The Storm wildcat well 33/2-1 on production license 555 was drilled 200km northwest of Florø…

Åsgard compressors ready to go

Dec 12, 2014

The modules for the first compressor train to be installed in the Åsgard subsea gas compression system - the world's  first subsea compression system - are ready to be transported from Egersund in Stavanger, Norway, to Kristiansund, pending installation at the field next year…

Wood Group to design Snorre TLP

Oct 14, 2014

Wood Group Mustang has been awarded the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) contract by Statoil for the proposed Snorre C tension leg platform (TLP) to be located on the Norwegian continental shelf. Work is being conducted by…

Lundin spuds well on Storm prospect

Oct 09, 2014

Lundin Petroleum has started drilling exploration well 33/2-1 on the Storm prospect in production license 555 in the northern North Sea.  The well is 200km west northwest of Florø on the Norwegian west coast and about 65km northwest of the Snorre field…

Telecommunications of the future

Oct 03, 2014

The rapid expansion of oil and gas telecommunications systems in order to facilitate the development digital oilfields in increasingly remote locations, enhance safety, and maximize data use, was the theme of a conference on oil and gas telecommunications organized by SMi Group in London…

ONS: Activity up - contract awards fall

Aug 25, 2014

There are currently 271 projects proposed or under development on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) and a total potential investment of US$262.3 billion. These were among the topline figures according…

Statoil, Schlumberger enter NCS agreement

Aug 08, 2014

Statoil awarded Schlumberger Norway a contract to provide integrated drilling services and exploration drilling on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Licenses are for Gullfaks, Gullfaks Satellites, Snorre, Statfjord, Tordis/Vigdis…

Pit halts Snorre production

May 21, 2014

Norway’s Statoil is to keep its Snorre B platform shut in until an investigation finds the cause of a pit which formed at a subsea template.  The pit, described as “an abnormal erosion of mass under the template” was discovered on Saturday (17 May)…

Seabed streamers for North Sea

May 30, 2014

Work will continue this summer and autumn on installing a permanement seismic monitoring system on the Snorre field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. A dedicated system, with a seismic streamer, will also be installed on Grane…

New Aker firm scoops Statoil contract

May 26, 2014

Statoil has exercised a two-year contract extension with Altus Intervention for the provision of mechanical wireline services on Statoil-operated fields and mobile drilling units on the Norwegian continental shelf. The scope of the extended…

Norway needs to halve well costs

May 09, 2014

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…

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