The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/2-20, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Well 16/2-20 will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling facility at position 58°56’25.80’’ north and 02°25’34.09’’ east in production licence 501. The drilling programme for well 16/2-20 relates to drilling of a wildcat [...]
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted RWE Dea Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6608/2-1 S, in the Norwegian Sea. Well 6608/2-1 S will be drilled from the Transocean Winner drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 6608/2-1 S relates to drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 330. RWE Dea Norge AS [...]
Anne Næss Myhrvold has taken over today as the director general of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). Born in 1966, she has worked for BP Norge since 2002 and has been a member of this company’s top management as head of health, safety and the environment (HSE) since 2009. With an MSc in microbiology, [...]
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 360, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 16/8-3 S, offshore Norway. The well was drilled about 40 kilometres east of the Sleipner Øst field and 60 kilometres south of the Johan Sverdrup discovery in the central part of the North Sea. The objective of the well [...]
Norway’s role as one of Germany’s most important energy supplier is to be further reinforced, as advocated by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel during a state visit to Oslo on Wednesday. “It is my firm conviction that Norway will also play a role in future as an important pillar of the German gas supply, and we [...]
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Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum has announced the appointment of a new Managing Director for its Norwegian activities. Reidar Hustoft took up his new position on 1 February replacing John M Dahlen, who is retiring from the company. John was a co-founder of Ener Petroleum which was acquired by Dana in 2007. Reidar previously ran Dana’s business [...]
The Norwegian Sea may be able to store 5.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s new storage atlas. This is more than 100 times Norway’s total CO2 discharge last year. The mapping is a follow-up on the atlas from 2011 for the Norwegian part of the North Sea, which was estimated [...]
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Less than two months after opening their office in Stavanger, Norway, Damen Shipyards delivers a Stan Tug 1004 to the Norwegian Shipbuilding company SIMEK AS in Flekkefjord. The Stan Tug was shipped to Norway last Monday on the Wagenborg carrier MV SAMIRA from Rotterdam Waalhaven. Damens first strides in the Northern Parts of Europe seem [...]
In the Awards in Predefined Areas 2012 (APA 2012), the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered RWE Dea Norge two new production licences, one of which is an operatorship. New Production Licences: PL694 and PL682 RWE Dea Norge will become operator of a new production licence (PL) with a 40% share, PL694. This [...]
Mechanical engineering company, EnerMech, is to open a second Norwegian base as part of a £3 million (NOK 27.7 million) investment to grow its Scandinavian business. The new base and workshop in Bergen was selected to be closer to Norway’s largest shipyards and to offer a rapid response service to existing and new clients. EnerMech [...]
