Statoil announced further delay in developing the Johan Castberg project, postponing final concept selection on the Barents Sea project until 2015. “Unfortunately, the exploration campaign has proven less new oil resources in the Castberg area than expected…
An appeal by Greenpeace against Statoil’s plans to drill in the Barents Sea has been rejected, but the group is defending its right to occupy the location the rig is due to drill at. Activists scaled the Transocean Spitsbergen semisubmersible drilling rig on Tuesday…
Greenpeace activists who boarded the semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Spitsbergen (pictured) 300km offshore Norway are now in the hands of Norwegian police, says Statoil. But, Greenpeace's ship, the Esperanza, has moved to the location where Statoil plans to drill…
Greenpeace activists this (Tuesday 27 May) morning boarded two oil rigs in an attempt to disrupt their planned deployment to areas within the Arctic Circle. A group of 30 activists in the Dutch port of IJmuiden occupied the GSP Saturn…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7324/2-1. It will be the first well to be drilled in Production License (PL) 615 in the Barents Sea. The wildcat well 7324/2-1 (Apollo) will…
GDF SUEZ E&P Norge's wildcat well 7218/8-1 on the Byrkje prospect in the Barents Sea has been classified as dry, with traces of gas. The well, in production licence 607, well was drilled about 65km southwest of the oil and gas discovery…
Det norske oljeselskap is to plug and abandon its exploration well on the Langlitinden prospect after getting disappointing results. The well was the first well in Barents Sea production license 659. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said the well…
Det Norske Oljeselskap's well 7222/11-2 on the Langlitinden prospect in production license 659 in the Barents Sea is being completed. Partner Lundin Petroleum said logs and samples have been acquired. Oil with very low mobility was sampled in Middle Triassic sandstones…
Det Norske Oljeselskap has commenced drilling the Langlitinden prospect in production license (PL) 659, located 80km northeast of the Snøhvit field. It is the company's first operated well in the Barents Sea.The target for the well (7222/11-2) is to prove hydrocarbons in the Triassic…
Tullow Oil plc's Mantra well, offshore Norway, is to be plugged and abandoned after being classified as water wet. Mantra, drilled with the 31/3-4 wildcat exploration well,was the first exploration well in the Tullow-operated 551 production license…
Statoil is to continue its Barents Sea exploration campaign in 2014, with 5-7 new wells planned. The Norwegian oil firm is planning to test potential in the Hoop area, where OMV made the recent play-opening Wisting Central discovery…
Lundin Norway AS confirmed a significant oil find in its Ghota discovery following the completion of a successful flow test of exploration well 7120/1-3, which proved gas flow at a rate of approximately 4,300 b/d. The test showed good production…
Lundin Petroleum has made an oil discovery on the Ghohta prospect in exploration licence PL492 in the Barents Sea. The well, 7120/1-3, 35km north west of the Snøhvit field, found a 75m oil column beneath a 25m gas/condensate cap in dolomitized and karstified carbonate in a Permian target…
Lundin Petroleum AB commenced drilling of exploration well 7120/1-3 in PL492 in the Barents Sea. The well will target the Gohta prospect, which is located 150km northwest of the Norwegian coast, approximately 185km northwest of Hammerfest…
Transocean BarentsDana Petroleum has started drilling a new prospect in the Norwegian Sea in partnership with the operator Maersk Oil Norway.The drilling rig Transocean Barents has started operations on the Albert prospect in production license PL 513 in the Haltenbanken area…
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