Norway/NCS

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December 20, 2018
Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has completed the drilling of the Silfari exploration well 6307/1-1S, located in PL830 in the Norwegian Sea.
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December 19, 2018
Resman AS, a well and reservoir surveillance and intelligent tracer systems company, has announced that it has agreed to acquire Restrack AS, a tracer service provider, in a share purchase agreement.
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December 19, 2018
The Johan Sverdrup processing platform is now sailing to Norway on board Boskalis Vanguard, the world’s largest heavy-transport vessel.
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December 17, 2018
Equinor and its partners started production from the Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea. Gas from the Aasta Hansteen field is available to the market for the first time and together with the Polarled pipeline the field opens a new region for gas export to Europe.
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December 11, 2018
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS a drilling permit for well 36/1-3, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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December 11, 2018
Neptune Energy has announced it has completed integration with the former VNG Norge business.
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December 07, 2018
Through utilization of the PWC (Perforate, Wash & Cement) plug and abandonment method (P&A) on the Valhall field, HydraWell has contributed towards Aker BP executing its plugging program significantly quicker than planned.
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December 07, 2018
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved the plan for development and operation (PDO) of the Troll Phase 3 development. Capital expenditures of $918.5 million (NOK 7.8 billion) will help extend the productive life of the Troll field beyond 2050.
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December 06, 2018
Well 35/11-22 S will be drilled from the Deepsea Bergen drilling facility in position 61°5'2.27"N and 3°20'56.92"E after completing the drilling of wildcat well 6407/11-1 for Equinor Energy AS in production license 751.
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December 06, 2018
Subsea tieback solution to Gjøa platform proposed for Norwegian North Sea oil and gas development.
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December 05, 2018
The waters around the sensitive Lofoten islands will probably never be opened to oil exploration, according to Norway’s climate and environment minister.
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December 05, 2018
Decom North Sea has announced the publication of its Managing Offshore Decommissioning Waste Guidelines, produced in conjunction with D3 Consulting Ltd, during last week’s annual Offshore Decommissioning Conference.
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December 05, 2018
The subsea field Vigdis has been producing oil through the Snorre field for more than 20 years. Field production will now be boosted by almost 11 MMbbl.
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December 05, 2018
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK, is pleased to announce the commencement of the Cassidy exploration well 8/10-7 S in the Norwegian North Sea (Faroe 15% working interest).
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December 05, 2018
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK, is pleased to announce it has signed a binding agreement with Equinor Energy AS (a wholly owned subsidiary of Equinor ASA) (“Equinor”) to swap its interests in the Njord, Hyme redevelopment and Bauge development assets (the “Divested Assets”) in return for interests in four production assets on the Norwegian Continental Shelf: Alve, Marulk, Ringhorne East and Vilje (together the “Acquired Assets”) on a cashless basis (the “Transaction”).
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December 05, 2018
Equinor and Faroe Petroleum have agreed on a number of transactions in the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea region of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
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December 03, 2018
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for well 24/9-14 S, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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November 30, 2018
A/S Norske Shell has completed the sale of its interests in the Draugen and Gjøa fields in Norway for ~$526 million (4,52 billion NOK) to OKEA AS.
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November 29, 2018
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6406/6-6 A, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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November 28, 2018
C-Kore Systems have successfully completed a contract with Norske Shell, where their C-Kore subsea testing tools were used to assist with fault-finding in the Draugen field offshore Norway.
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November 25, 2018
Equinor has exercised two options of two months each for jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid.
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