Norway/NCS
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October 11, 2019
Equinor made a final decision to invest in floating wind turbines to power offshore oil platforms off Norway after the government agreed to subsidize a large part of the cost.
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October 07, 2019
Discovered in 2010 in an area that had been disregarded by most explorers, the site started production on Saturday and is set to reach 440,000 bpd by next summer.
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October 02, 2019
Norway-based Eidesvik AS has contracted Wärtsilä to engineer, supply, and commission a hybrid propulsion system for its ‘Viking Neptun’ construction vessel.
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October 02, 2019
“Valhall West Flank is an important measure for further exploitation of the resources in a mature field,” says Tove Francke, the NPD’s assistant director for development and operations, North Sea South.
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September 26, 2019
“Our objective is to have the strongest, most competitive Upstream portfolio in the industry,” said Neil Chapman, senior vice president of ExxonMobil. “We’re achieving that by adding the best set of projects we’ve had in many years and divesting assets that have lower long-term strategic value."
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September 24, 2019
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate report states production in August was below forecast due to technical problems and maintenance work on some fields.
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September 17, 2019
"Equinor expects a significant simplification and thus an acceleration of maintenance work. Changes and collaboration with many subcontractors, whether in the design area or in operation, are much easier to implement and are more consistent with this unique master engineering database," said Uwe Vogt, executive officer at Aucotec.
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September 16, 2019
The contract saw Ashtead Technology provide its integrated Deflection Monitoring System (DMS) services and equipment to support the installation of eight Integrated Template Structures (ITS) in the fields located in the Northern Norwegian Sea.
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September 12, 2019
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor consent to use the facilities on the Tordis and Vigdis fields for a total of 34 years beyond their originally-approved lifetime. Tordis has secured consent to operate until December 31, 2036 and Vigdis until December 31, 2040.
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September 10, 2019
Parties that want to rein in the country’s golden goose made significant gains in Monday’s local elections. That raises the prospect of more advances for those forces that want to limit drilling in the Nordic nation, which supplies 25% of the European Union’s natural gas.
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September 10, 2019
Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a master services agreement by Lundin Norway, and new Isometrix seismic acquisition projects for Lundin and Spirit Energy Norway in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea.
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September 05, 2019
The Johan Sverdrup development continues to progress well through the final stages of preparation for operations. As a result, Equinor and its partners Lundin Norway, Petoro, Aker BP and Total, are accelerating the planned schedule for production start-up.
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September 04, 2019
On September 1st, Equinor and its partners started production from the Snefrid Nord gas field, the first discovery tied back to the Norwegian Sea Aasta Hansteen field. It also sets a new depth record on the Norwegian continental shelf.
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September 04, 2019
The rise of a huge new Norwegian oil field is poised to give North Sea output one of its biggest boosts in years. The surge won’t last.
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September 03, 2019
Fishbones has completed two reservoir stimulation jobs for Aker BP in the North Sea, increasing accessible reserves on Ivar Aasen, while matching the productivity of proppant fractured wells on Valhall.
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September 02, 2019
“The Johan Sverdrup field is a shining example of the possibilities and the values that can be achieved through exploration of mature petroleum provinces on the shelf,” said Ingrid Sølvberg, director, development and operations in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
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August 16, 2019
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s preliminary production figures for July 2019 show an average daily production of 1,799,000 bbl oil, NGL and condensate, which is an increase of 402,000 bpd compared to June.
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August 14, 2019
Equinor estimates the expected total Utgard sales volume at 1.71 million m3 condensate, 2.73 billion m3 gas and 0.56 million tons of NGL.
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August 12, 2019
Wintershall Dea has begun drilling four production wells on the Dvalin gas field in the Norwegian Sea, getting ready for the start of production in 2020.
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August 06, 2019
After revealing it wanted to dump all oil stocks in 2017, Norway’s $1.1 trillion wealth fund’s actual divestment could now be very small.
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August 05, 2019
Capricorn Norge AS completed drilling the first exploration well in Norway’s production license 842, about 13 kilometers northeast of the Norne field.
