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Svale North oil discovery

Sep 11, 2013

Statoil has together with partners in PL128 made an oil discovery in the Svale North prospect in the Norwegian Sea, approximately nine kilometres northeast of the Norne field. Exploration well 6608/10-15, drilled by the Songa Trym semisubmersible…

Aker doubles Aasta work

Feb 01, 2013

Aker to supply Aasta subsea production system SPAR platform on the Aasta Hansteen fieldAker Solutions has signed a contract with Statoil for the supply of a subsea production system for the Aasta Hansteen field development project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…

Statoil wildcat bites dust

Jan 28, 2013

Wildcat is first drilled by Statoil in PL386 Seadrill's West Alpha drilling facilityStatoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 386, has completed drilling of wildcat well 6610/10-1. The well is dry. The well was drilled about…

Aker wins Aasta Hansteen job

Jan 28, 2013

Company to manufacture umbilicals, riser baseSPAR platform on the Aasta Hansteen fieldAker Solutions has signed a contract with Statoil for the supply of deepwater umbilicals to the Aasta Hansteen field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…

Lars Christian Bacher appointed Statoil's EVP

Apr 28, 2012

Lars Christian Bacher (pictured) has been appointed Statoil’s EVP development and production international and will take up the post on 1 September. He will succeed Peter Mellbye who is retiring after 30 years with the company. Bacher…

Gudrun enters construction phase

Apr 01, 2012

Operator Statoil and contractor Aker Solutions jointly hosted an open house in Stavanger recently to review progress on Gudrun – currently the biggest project in Statoil and now ramping up for the construction phase – and share learnings on this and other areas of Norwegian offshore activity…

Going with the flow

Apr 01, 2012

A third-generation subsea multiphase flowmeter and a second-generation subsea wet gas meter are among the new products expected to emerge next from the Roxar Flow Measurement team in Bergen, now officially dubbed parent group Emerson's Multiphase Centre of Excellence…

Umbilicals under pressure

Feb 02, 2011

With subsea infrastructure getting into ever deeper waters, umbilicals have had to shoulder an expanding load. Jennifer Pallanich talks to five leading SURF sector players about how the industry's thermoplastic and steel tube umbilicals have evolved…

North West European Continental Shelf - oil & gas activity

Sep 02, 2010

The effect of the continuing credit crunch last summer meant that North Sea field development activity was down last year, but the steadying of the price this spring has led to projects being dusted off in both the UK and the Norwegian sectors…

Powering up to meet market demand

Apr 08, 2010

With the offshore umbilicals market emerging from its recent slumbers and power cable demand from both the oil & gas and wind energy sectors picking up strongly, further expansion of Nexans’ Halden facility in Norway could well follow the current…

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