The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), with assistance from the Civil Aviation Authority, carried out an audit of Ekofisk 2/4-L facility on 4 – 5 April 2013. The objective of the audit was to verify that Ekofisk 2/4-L , located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, was built in accordance with regulatory requirements [...]
The Board of Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) announced that Svein Arild Killingland has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company group. Svein Arild Killingland will take office on Monday 13 May 2013. Svein Arild Killingland (57) was until recently employed as Senior Partner in HitecVision (2010-12). Killingland has previously held positions [...]
BG Norge AS has received consent to carry out production drilling, completion and well testing on the Knarr field, with the Transocean Searcher rig. The planned start-up is in June 2013 and the operation has an expected duration of 60-80 days. Transocean Searcher is a semi-submersible rig of a Bingo 3000 design, built in 1983. [...]
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Canada’s oil and gas exploration an production company Talisman Energy has kicked off drilling at the Frode prospect in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The well, which is situated in the production licence 299, approximately 16 km south-east of the Gyda field, was spudded on Friday, as announced by North Energy which owns a [...]
BG Norge AS (BGN) has received consent to drill exploration well 34/3-4 S with the Transocean Searcher rig. BGN is the operator of production licence 373 S in block 34/3 in the northern part of the North Sea, approx. 120 km west of Florø. The consent relates to drilling of exploration well 34/3-4 S in [...]
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Talisman Energy Norge AS (Talisman) has received consent to drill exploration well 2/1-16 S with the Mærsk Giant jack-up rig. Talisman is the operator of production licence 299 in block 2/1 in the North Sea off Norway. The consent relates to drilling of exploration well 2/1-16 S in a prospect called Frode. The rig was [...]
ExxonMobil has received consent to use six new subsea wells on the Balder field. ExxonMobil is the operator on the Balder field, located in the central part of the North Sea, approx. 190 km west of Stavanger. The field is developed with subsea wells that are tied in to the Balder FPU mobile living quarters [...]
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On 13 March 2013, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of BP’s established solution with a control room on Valhall PH (offshore control room) and at Forus (onshore control room). In 2012, BP introduced a new concept where control room functions are split between two control rooms, one on Valhall, and [...]
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Rocksource Exploration Norway AS, operator of production licence 506 S, has completed drilling of wildcat well 26/5-1. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 62 kilometres east of the Frøy field in the central part of the North Sea offshore Norway. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in [...]
Technip was awarded by Statoil a contract for the removal and replacement of the two oil-loading systems at the Gullfaks field. This field is located in the North Sea, offshore Norway, at a water depth of approximately 130 meters. The contract covers the engineering, preparation and removal of the existing system, installation of the new [...]
