Lundin Norway, operator for production license 708, has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to drill exploration well 7130/4-1 in the Barents Sea. Drilling is scheduled to begin in November 2015 and estimated to last 56 days…
Centrica Resources has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to drill a shallow borehole (pilot hole) down to a depth of 423m below the seabed in the North Sea near the Ula field. The purpose of drilling is to establish that there is no shallow gas in an area…
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway to drill exploration well 15/3-10 in a prospect named Sigrun East with the potential of a sidetrack well. The area where the well is to be drilled is around…
The Norway Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Lundin Norway consent to drill exploration well 7220/6-2 in the Barents Sea in a prospect called Neiden. Lundin is the operator for production license 609 in block 7220/6 in the Barents Sea…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted ConocoPhillips consent to use the Maersk Gallant mobile drilling facility for plugging and abandoning a production well at Eldfisk 2/7 A. Eldfisk is an oil field lying due south of Ekofisk in 70-75m of water in the southern North Sea…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway granted Statoil consent for exploration drilling at its operated production license 602 in block 6706/11 in the Norwegian Sea. The field is located around 233km from the nearest mainland at Skomvær in the county of Nordland…
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has launched an investigation into an incident on Transocean Barents on 4 March when a roughneck suffered crush injuries. The injured drill floor worker was on the monkey board, about 10-12m in the derrick…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway granted Statoil consent to drill well 15/6-13 Gina Krog East 3 in the central North Sea. Drilling operations with the Songa Trym semisubmersible are expected to begin in April 2015 for approximately 50 days…
Total E&P Norge received approval from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to drill two wells in production license 627 in the central North Sea. Blocks 25/6-5 S and 25/6-5 A Skirne Øst will be drilled with the Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible to investigate the find's potential…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway granted Talisman Energy Norge AS consent for exploration drilling of well 15/12-24 at the Snømus prospect. Image of the Maersk Giant jackup. From Maersk. The well is located in production license 672…
Suncor Energy Norge received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to drill at exploration well 34/4 in the Norwegian Sea. The well is located in the Suncor-operated production license 375, in Block 34/4. Drilling will begin this month for a period of 154 days…
Lundin, the operator of production license PL674, has been given consent to drill exploration well 26/10-1. PL674, which comprises blocks 26/10 and 17/1, is in the central North Sea, around 150km west of Stavanger. Exploration well 26/1-1…
Statoil has shut its Snohvit LNG plant down because of a gas leak, Reuters has reported. While it is not yet known when the plant will return to production, Statoil Spokesperson Oerjan Heradstveit told the news service: 'The situation is now under control and there is no longer a leak…
Statoil received consent to use the Songa Dee mobile drilling facility to permanently plug exploration well 34/10-52 A/B, according to the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway. Well 34/10-52 A/B is located at the Statoil-operated Gullfaks Sør…
Anne Næss Myhrvold has taken over today as the director general of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). Born in 1996, she has worked for BP Norge since 2002 and has been a member of this company’s top management as head of health…
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