Norwegian Continental Shelf News

 

Rex to rescue Lime

Sep 29, 2015

Rex International (RII) entered into a subscription agreement with Lime Petroleum Norway (LPN) for about US$11.72 million (NOK 100 million) as capital injection for Lime’s drilling program obligations. Image from Rex…

Wintershall takes over Vega

Mar 04, 2015

Germany's Wintershall has taken over the operatorship of the subsea oil and gas field Vega from Statoil as it gears up to develop the Maria field. Vega is the BASF subsidiary’s first operated subsea tie-in field in Norway. With this transfer…

AGR wins Lukoil software contract

Feb 23, 2015

Lukoil Overseas North Shelf AS awarded AGR a US$131,000 contract for its well intelligence software solution, iQx. AGR’s iQx software is designed to simplify and increase efficiency of the planning and execution of drilling wells.…

EMGS gets US$2.5 mln from NCS sale

Feb 16, 2015

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) will receive uplift revenues of US$2.5 million related to the licensing round for mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf - Awards in Predefined Areas (APA). EMGS's multi-client data library in Norway now covers 44…

Wintershall gets eight licenses in APA 2014

Jan 26, 2015

Germany’s Wintershall picked up eight new exploration licenses from the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in the current licensing round APA 2014. Image from Wintershall.   Wintershall…

Interwell gets Statoil NCS contract

Nov 11, 2014

Statoil Petroleum awarded Interwell a frame agreement for the scope of completion services in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The six-year contract has an initial period of two years with two additional optional periods of two years.

Ross Offshore gets NCS transport contract

Oct 24, 2014

RossOffshore AS, based in Bergen, Norway, has been awarded long-term helicopter services contract with Lundin Norway AS and the Det norske oljeselskap ASA. The three-year contract is to book personnel for flights offshore Norway, and includes three x two-year options to extend…

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…

Barents Sea seismic complete

Oct 02, 2014

Statoil has completed its joint venture seismic acquisition project in the southeastern Barents Sea, carried out in advance of the Norwegian Continental Shelf’s upcoming licensing round. “This information will constitute an important…

DSM inks mooring contract with Repsol

Sep 24, 2014

Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has secured a contract to provide a range of mooring services for Repsol's drilling operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Under the contract, DSM will provide marine engineering services and deliver the mooring equipment…

ONS: AGR bags NCS contracts

Aug 24, 2014

AGR has been awarded software contracts with Det norske oljeselskap, VNG (Norge) and OMV (Norge) worth in total about US$1 million. AGR will be delivering its bespoke software products P1, CT and iQˣ, which has been shortlisted for the ONS Innovation Award…

New areas offered in APA 2014

Apr 03, 2014

The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has announced the APA 2014 in the predefined areas on the Norwegian Shelf. Awards are projected to be announced in 1Q 2015. The APA system has been extended with the addition of three blocks in the Barents Sea near Snøhvit field…

Major North Sea wins for EMAS

Mar 14, 2013

The subsea services division of global offshore contractor EMAS has won two major contracts offshore Norway.EMAS AMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract, valued at approximately US$165 million…

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…

Riser replacement

May 27, 2012

The first of several riser replacements for Statoil on the Norwegian continental shelf was successfully completed recently by Emas AMC using the construction vessel AMC Connector. This one took place on Snorre B and the Emas AMC contract…

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