Norway/NCS
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June 15, 2020
Neodrill and Baker Hughes announced completion of the world’s first cut and recover operation for Wintershall Dea Norge in the Norwegian Sea. Rig time was reduced by an estimated 12 hours, with work to cut the surface casing moved off the critical path of the rig schedule.
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June 10, 2020
The decline in the region’s floating storage is important because the grades in question help shape the Dated Brent benchmark that’s used to settle millions of barrels of physical oil transactions between producers and refineries.
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May 13, 2020
Neptune Energy has conducted the world’s first dual drilling operation from an integrated subsea template structure at the Fenja field in the Norwegian North Sea.
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May 11, 2020
Neptune Energy and Wintershall Dea announced the successful lift of the 740-tonne topside module for the Nova development project in the Norwegian North Sea.
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April 03, 2020
Norway, the biggest oil producer in western Europe, said it would consider cutting its output if there was a broad international agreement to curb supply.
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March 30, 2020
Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea expects to reach plateau production for the first phase in early May, earlier than anticipated. Due to higher plant capacity, plateau production will increase from around 440,000 boepd to around 470,000 boepd.
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March 11, 2020
The infected person has been in isolation in his cabin since March 9th, and measures to prevent further contamination for offshore installations has been introduced.
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March 06, 2020
A group of UK North Sea oil and natural gas producers face an ambitious government-mandated target to cut their emissions as soon as 2025 as the nation seeks to make more real its ambition for net-zero fossil fuel pollution by the middle of the century.
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March 05, 2020
TGS announced that processing of the northern half of its landmark ocean-bottom node (OBN) multi-client survey in the Norwegian North Sea is complete and has been delivered to pre-funding customers.
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March 05, 2020
Aker BP and Framo have entered a long-term maintenance contract for seawater lift pumps where compensation is directly linked to facility uptime.
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February 19, 2020
Neptune Energy announced first gas from the new L5a-D4 well in the deepest producing gas field of the Dutch North Sea.
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February 13, 2020
Developed by Equinor in partnership with Shell and Total, the Northern Lights project aims to securely collect and transmit CO₂ from onshore sources and store it under the seabed.
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February 06, 2020
The move, which Equinor had initially resisted, is another illustration of the tremendous pressure building against the oil industry to act on climate change, including from a growing proportion of major investors.
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February 03, 2020
As operators worldwide set ambitious net-zero-emissions goals, oilfield service companies have an opportunity to both play a key role in meeting these targets, and take a leadership position in shaping the path of the coming energy transition.
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January 29, 2020
Under the agreement, the companies will offer tooling and services in four distinct areas: platform well abandonment, subsea well abandonment, topside and jacket removals and subsea removals.
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January 23, 2020
Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer just witnessed its final investment boom, according to Norway’s largest bank.
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January 20, 2020
In direct continuation of the rig’s current workscope, Maersk Integrator will move to the Ivar Aasen field offshore Norway to drill two wells, with work expected to commence in October 2020.
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January 15, 2020
OPEC’s latest forecasts suggested a weaker outlook for global oil markets this year as surging supplies from competitors from Norway to Guyana threaten the group’s efforts to defend crude prices.
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January 14, 2020
Odin Estensen, managing director of Neptune Energy in Norway, said “The awards support our
strategy to grow operatorship and acreage in and around our core areas. Through this latest licensing
round we have secured four more awards than in 2019, a record for our company in Norway.”
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January 14, 2020
“The award enables us to mature new prospects and prove profitable resources that can be developed within the scope of our new climate roadmap for the Norwegian continental shelf,” said Nick Ashton, Equinor’s senior vice president for exploration in Norway and the UK.
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January 13, 2020
Norway’s vision of establishing a new major oil province off its northern tip has suffered another blow.
