The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for well 16/1-27. Well 16/1-27 will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling facility, at position 58°50’18.11” north and 2°11’56.83” east, in a southwesterly…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Lundin consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 16/1-27 on the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea. Lundin is the operator of the Edvard Grieg field, around 140km west-southwest of Stavanger…
Farstad Shipping has been awarded six global charter and extension contracts with several companies. The anchor handling tug supply vessel Far Sigma has been awarded a one well contract by Lundin Norway to support their drilling program…
Lundin is to take a non-cash impairment charge of US$632 million after deciding to take some 170 MMboe contingent resources in Malaysia and the Caspian Sea off its books. The Sweden-headquartered explorer said it was removing the resources…
Germany’s Wintershall will use AGR’s well data management and analysis software tool iQˣ for its Maria field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). iQˣ is designed to optimize well performance and drilling management by providing a data and knowledge management platform…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Lundin Norway consent to drill exploration well 7120/1-5 in a prospect named Gohta. The prospect is located in Lundin-operated production license 492 (PL492), which is comprised of blocks 7120/1 and 7120/2 in the Barents Sea…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for wellbore 7120/1-5, to be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility. The drilling program for wellbore 7120/1-5 relates to the drilling of an appraisal well in production license 492…
Offers for 56 new production licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf are being made to 29 companies, 17 of which are operators. The offers are being made after 33 companies applied in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate's (NPD) the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2016…
Sweden's Lundin has made a ca. 25-60 MMboe oil and gas discovery on the Loppa High, 20km east of the Johan Castberg discovery in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The well, 7220/6-2 R, was drilled on the Neiden prospect in production license 609…
Despite reductions in exploration spend, work goes on. Elaine Maslin speaks with Wood Mackenzie’s Andrew Latham to find out where explorers will aim their drillbits this year. Stena DrillMAX. Photo from Stena Drilling…
Aker BP started first oil at the Ivar Aasen field earlier this week, just four years after the plan for development and operations (PDO) was submitted. Image of Ivar Aasen, from Aker BP. Production…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for well 16/2-22 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/2-22 S will be drilled from the Deepsea Atlantic drilling facility in position 58°55’33…
UK independent EnQuest has brought its Scolty and Crathes development in the UK North Sea onstream. The firm also confirmed sailaway of the US$2.6 billion Kraken development floating production, storage and offloading vessel is due in coming days…
Swedish headquartered oil firm Lundin says its Barents Sea Alta discovery contains up to 125-400 MMboe gross contingent resources after completing its latest appraisal well. The estimate, inline with pre-drilling estimates, comes after…
Aker BP has started production from the Viper-Kobra development, a subsea tieback to the Alvheim floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Norwegian North Sea. Viper-Kobra consists of two separate discoveries, containing 9 MMboe jointly…
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