Norwegian energy company Equinor has made an investment decision to partly electrify the Sleipner field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.Equinor, with its partners Vår Energi, LOTOS and KUFPEC on Tuesday filed a revised plan for development and operation to the authorities…
Following Norway's decision in April to cut oil production to support oil prices, and the King's approval of the proposed cuts last week, the country's Energy Ministry on Monday announced the list of fields covered by the planned cuts that are expected to take effect from June…
Norwegian offshore oil company Aker BP has awarded the Maersk Integrator jack-up drilling rig a contract for work at the Ivar Aasen field offshore Norway.Maersk Drilling, the rig's owner, said Monday that the Maersk Integrator would move to…
Aker BP and Framo have signed a first long-term frame agreement for the preventive maintenance of seawater lift pumps, a deal in which “compensation is directly linked to facility uptime”, the operator said in a release Monday.While the “seawater lift as a service” agreement might sound “smart”…
Offshore completions services company Tendeka has received a Letter of Intent for the supply of sand-face completion equipment to Aker BP’s Norwegian assets. Tendeka said the deal was a substantial one with a multi-million-pound scope.Over the next three years…
Offshore oil and gas production is very energy intensive, and with declining field pressure and the need for enhanced production the energy demand even increases substantially in the later lifetime of an oil and gas production facility. The…
Norway's OKEA has appointed Knut Gjertsen as a new SVP Project and Technology.The Oslo-listed oil firm said Monday that Gjertsen was joining from the position as Project Director for Johan Castberg in Equinor. Johan Castberg is Equinor's oilfield development in the Barents Sea…
Norwegian energy firm BKK announced plans to build an offshore power grid in the North Sea, in a more than $2 billion project to help the country's oil and gas industry cut greenhouse gas emissions.It will undertake the project with infrastructure company CapeOmega…
Operators are on digitization journeys linked to life extension projects that aim to make the most of older infrastructure. Proposed tiebacks at ConocoPhillips’ Tor II and on Aker BP’s Ivar Aasen projects look set to reveal a special benefit to “freeing data”…
From 2022 the Johan Sverdrup field will supply the Gina Krog, Ivar Aasen and Edvard Grieg fields with power from shore. The area’s licence partners have recently agreed on maximizing the utilization of power from shore to the area by enabling…
Asset managers leveraging advanced sensor technologies, vast pools of stored and processed data, and real-time analytics are able to foresee—and prevent—costly component failures.A recent report from Lloyd’s Register points out that predictive…
Offshore oil and gas is among the many industries in the midst of a vast technological shift being driven by rapid advances in new digital technologies and methodologies. Big data, artificial intelligence (AI), digitalization . . . The list goes on and on…
Production has commenced from the giant Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian North Sea, operator Equinor announced on Saturday.The largest development in Norway for three decades, the mega project has started up more than two months ahead of and NOK 40 billion ($4…
Norway’s government will earn around NOK 265 billion ($30 billion) taxing and taking up stakes in its oil and gas fields in 2019, and Norwegian production is on the rise. In contrast, Britain in 2019 will earn about GBP 1.1 billion ($1.34 billion)…
Equinor and partners Lundin and Spirit Energy have made a small oil discovery in production licence 167 at the Utsira High in the central part of the North Sea.The Lille Prinsen Outer Wedge appraisal well is located about 1 kilometer west of Lille Prinsen Main…