Norway/NCS

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December 17, 2021
Maersk Drilling extended a drilling agreement with Aker BP ASA in a $1 billion five-year contract, securing a major revenue source.
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November 26, 2021
Nordic oil producer Lundin Energy AB is exploring a potential sale that could rank as one of the largest European oil and gas deals in years, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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November 25, 2021
This Northern North Sea study, available for license, provides an in-depth review of potential CO2 storage plays in a region extending over CGG’s North Viking Graben 3D seismic dataset, including areas in both UK and Norwegian waters.
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November 24, 2021
Neptune Energy Group Ltd.’s owners are weighing plans to sell the UK oil and gas explorer, according to people familiar with the matter.
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November 22, 2021
Neptune Energy has extended a contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai drilling rig, to include three additional wells in the Norwegian North Sea next year.
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November 10, 2021
Equinor has signed a contract with Aker Solutions for front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a floating production and storage vessel for the Wisting field. Valued at around NOK 350 million, the study includes an option for engineering, procurement, construction, and installation calculated at NOK 8-12 billion.
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October 27, 2021
Equinor ASA is boosting natural gas exports to ease Europe’s supply crunch, sacrificing some oil production in the process.
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October 26, 2021
Europe’s energy crisis and a spike in natural gas prices are proving to be a boon for Norway, delivering a flood of revenue for the country that’s already one of the world’s richest.
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October 08, 2021
Norway’s election-winning Labor Party agreed to form a minority government with another proponent of oil exploration, the agrarian and euro-skeptic Center Party.
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October 08, 2021
Equinor ASA, the flagship producer of oil and gas giant Norway, is investing billions of dollars in blue hydrogen on a bet that it can make the fuel more cleanly than anyone else.
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September 30, 2021
The deal includes all INEOS Oil & Gas interests in production, licenses, fields, facilities and pipelines, on the Norwegian continental shelf and continues to rebalance INEOS’ oil and gas portfolio.
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September 30, 2021
Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, continues to expand its operations in the Southern North Sea with the award of a new operations and maintenance contract with Shell UK and Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij.
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September 23, 2021
ChampionX will deliver its range of chemical management services to Vår Energi, which encompasses the deployment of its asset integrity, phase separation, flow assurance and enhanced oil recovery chemical technologies.
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September 21, 2021
Aquaterra Energy has signed a partnership with renewable hydrogen producer and supplier Lhyfe and offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling to develop an innovative concept for offshore green hydrogen production in the North Sea.
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September 20, 2021
Equinor and its partners have received permission to increase gas exports from two fields on the Norwegian continental shelf to supply the tight European market.
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September 14, 2021
Norway’s opposition Labor Party is on course to oust the Conservative-led government after two consecutive terms in an election dominated by disputes over the Nordic economy’s dependence on fossil fuel.
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September 07, 2021
Neptune Energy Group Ltd., the private equity-backed explorer, is considering options including a merger with Harbour Energy Plc that could create one of Europe’s largest independent oil and gas companies, people familiar with the matter said.
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August 31, 2021
The depreciation and uplift rules in the special tax for petroleum will be replaced by immediate expense recognition of investments, or cash flow tax, from 2022, Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner told reporters in a snap press conference in Oslo.
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August 31, 2021
Norway, Western Europe’s biggest oil producer, has more than 50% of its recoverable resources still in the ground, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The Barents Sea probably holds most of that, yet there’s only one oil field and one gas field currently producing.
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August 30, 2021
Recoverable volumes from Troll phase 3, which will produce the Troll West gas cap, are estimated at as much as 347 billion cubic meters of gas. Converted into oil equivalent this amounts to 2.2 billion barrels.
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August 27, 2021
After mooring lines installation in June, towing and hook up in July, Bourbon Subsea Services completed the offshore installation of the 3,6 MW TetraSpar Demonstrator Floating Wind Turbine at Metcentre Test site in Norway, by laying and connecting the power cable earlier this week. The wind turbine will be commissioned in the coming weeks.
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