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May 21, 2015
Statoil has completed its investigation into a leak on Gudrun platform.
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May 14, 2015
Eni Norge has received consent from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for manned underwater operations at Goliat field.
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May 13, 2015
CGG has announced a western extension of the Horda BroadSeis-BroadSource 3D multi-client program that it began acquiring in the Northern North Sea, offshore Norway, in 2014.
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May 13, 2015
A group of ex-FMC employees have teamed up with subsea installation player DeepOcean to found Optime Subsea Services, whose multiCompletionSystem (mCS) can provide up to 80% time and cost savings on subsea tree installations as compared to traditional solutions.
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May 11, 2015
Statoil, Norway’s biggest oil company, is keeping a close watch of acquisition opportunities after a crash in crude prices.
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May 08, 2015
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract with a value of approximately $300 million for Wintershall Norge's Maria field development. The field is located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of approximately 300 m.
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May 08, 2015
Plexus Holdings has secured an additional purchase order with Maersk Oil's Danish business unit to supply its wellhead system and mudline services for a well in the Danish sector of the North Sea.
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April 28, 2015
Statoil has started drilling the Bister exploration well (well 6407/8-7) in the Norwegian Sea, Faroe Petroleum, a partner in the well, has announced.
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April 28, 2015
Wintershall Norge, the operator of PL589, is about to complete the drilling of wildcat well 6406/2-8 in the Norwegian Sea. The well proved oil.
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April 21, 2015
Statoil, Eni Norge, Lundin Norway, OMV and GDF SUEZ will collaborate on solving operational tasks tied to exploration in the Barents Sea.
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April 13, 2015
Statoil, together with its partners in PL602, has made a gas discovery in the Roald Rygg prospect in the Norwegian Sea. This is the second discovery made by Statoil in the Aasta Hansteen area in Spring 2015.
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March 31, 2015
Maersk Oil has started production from the new unmanned platform Tyra Southeast-B, the company reported Tuesday.
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March 27, 2015
The Solitaire pipe-laying vessel started the first stage of the Polarled installation project on Thursday, Statoil has reported. The 482-km long pipeline will transport gas from Aasta Hansteen field, in the Norwegian Sea, to Nyhamna, in western Norway.
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March 27, 2015
Statoil Petroleum has recieved a drilling permit from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate for wildcat well 15/6-13 in PL 029B, near the Gina Krogh field in the central North Sea.
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March 26, 2015
Electromagnetic Geoservices has entered into two new data licensing agreements with two oil companies for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS's multi-client data library in the Barents Sea.
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March 26, 2015
Dolphin Geophysical has just mobilised the 'world's largest floating object' by deploying a seismic spread of 12 streamers, 7,050 m in length with 150 m streamer separation, off the coast of Myanmar for Ophir Energy.
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March 25, 2015
Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, has started drilling appraisal well 7220/11-2 in PL609.
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March 18, 2015
READING, United Kingdom -- BG Group announced Wednesday that the Petrojarl Knarr FPSO vessel had started production from Knarr oil field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.
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March 17, 2015
Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, operator of PL338C, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 16/1-24. The well is dry.
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March 16, 2015
ABB has won an order worth $155 million from Norway’s Statoil to supply systems and equipment to two HVDC converter stations linking the recently discovered Johan Sverdrup offshore field with the onshore grid.
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March 13, 2015
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has entered into a data licensing agreement with an oil company for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS's multi-client data library in the Barents Sea.
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