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Wärtsilä, Songa ink rig services deal

Mar 14, 2017

The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a five-year technical management and services agreement with Songa Offshore for four Cat-D type semisubmersible drilling rigs operating in the North Sea. Songa Encourage…

Statoil to use Songa Encourage at Norne

Jan 27, 2017

Statoil has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Songa Encourage mobile drilling facilityfor well activities at Norne, Norne satellites, and Alve in the Norwegian Sea. Statoil is the operator of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea…

Statoil Troll incident could have been fatal

Jan 20, 2017

Norwegian giant Statoil held a press conference earlier today (20 January) to discuss the investigations of two very serious incidents with safety issues that could have been fatal to the crew onboard.   Øvrum…

Songa Encourage near Kristiansund for repairs

Jan 18, 2017

Songa Offshore's newbuild semisubmersible drilling rig Songa Encourage has been taken close to Kristiansund, Norway, for equipment overhaul and repair following a water ingreses into a pump room on 2 January.  The rig is expected to be back in operations early February 2017…

Statoil hits at Njord North Flank

Oct 17, 2016

Statoil has made an oil and gas discovery at the Njord North Flank in the Norwegian Sea that could potentially hold up to 28.3 MMboe, according to partner Faroe Petroleum. The Songa Delta, from Songa Offshore…

Songa sheds staff as strike bites

Sep 30, 2016

A strike by workers in the Norwegian sector has led to a number of rigs in the basin having to halt operations and staff being put on temporary dismissal.  Songa Offshore says three of its four newbuild Cat D rigs are out of operation and on force majeure rate…

Statoil spins bit in Njord area

Aug 16, 2016

Statoil has started drilling on the Njord North Flank-2 (NF-2) exploration well 6407/7-9 S in the Norwegian Sea, according to partner Faroe Petroleum. The NF-2 prospect is in production license 107C, immediately north of the Njord field…

Statoil expands Snøhvit CO2 and gas production

Aug 09, 2016

The Songa Enabler drilling rig has started drilling a new injection well for CO2 gas on the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea, off the coast of Hammerfest, Norway. Once complete, the rig will then drill the first new production well in the field since it came on stream in 2017…

Statoil makes gas condensate and oil discovery

Jul 27, 2016

Norway's Statoil has made a gas condensate and oil discovery southwest of the Oseberg Sør facility in the North Sea, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).  The discovery, in production license 035/272, was made through the wildcat wells 30/11-14 and 30/11-14 B…

Statoil to drill at Asgard, Heidrun with Songa Encourage

Jun 27, 2016

Statoil has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Songa Encourage semisubmersible drilling rig for the drilling and completion of wells at Åsgard and Heidrun in the Norwegian Sea. The consent covers production drilling…

Statoil suspends use of Songa Delta

Jun 21, 2016

Norwegian oil major Statoil is suspending its contract for use of the Songa Delta semisubmersible drilling rig after completion of its current drilling operation. The unit is currently drilling the Slemmestad well in the Norwegian North Sea…

Small discovery in Krafla area, Norway

Jun 09, 2016

Statoil has made a minor gas/condensate discovery near the Krafla discovery in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The discovery was made on the Beerenberg prospect well 30/11-13, on production license 272…

Mixed results for Statoil near Oseberg

May 31, 2016

Statoil Petroleum made a small discovery but also drilled a dry hole on its latest drilling in production license 035, 35km south west of the Oseberg Sor facility. Wildcat well 30/11-12 S (the Askja South East prospect) encountered a 37m oil column in the upper Tarbert formation…

Statoil to drill 30/11-13 well with Songa Delta

Apr 19, 2016

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for well 30/11-13, tobe drilled from the Songa Delta drilling facility in production license 035. The drilling program for well 30/11-13 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well…

Statoil to drill Norwegian wildcat

Apr 14, 2016

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for wells 30/11-12 S and 30/11-12 A in production license 035 (PL 035), part of block 30/11 in the Norwegian North Sea. Well 30/11-12 S is wildcat well that…

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