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Wood has secured two new contracts from Equinor for onshore and offshore facilities in Norway.
Speaking after reports that ExxonMobil is preparing to put its Norwegian upstream portfolio up for sale, Neivan Boroujerdi, Wood Mackenzie, said “The move doesn’t come as a surprise.
Aker BP selected Optime Subsea as a provider of well access system and -services on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Capricorn Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6508/1-3 cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for well 6608/6-1 cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 338, has completed the drilling of exploration wells 16/1-31 S and 16/1-31 A.
Preliminary production figures for May 2019 show an average daily production of 1,599,000 bbl of oil, NGL and condensate, which is a decrease of 120,000 bpd compared to April.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS a drilling permit for well 6507/2-5 S cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for well 25/2-20, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.
Equinor, alongside partners Ineos E&P and Faroe Petroleum, has made an oil and gas discovery in exploration well Snadd Outer Outer/Black Vulture in production license 159B, in the Norwegian Sea.
On behalf of the Johan Sverdrup license, Equinor is awarding the contract for subsea pipelines and associated marine operations in the second project phase to Subsea 7.
Equinor and its partners will disclose datasets from Sleipner field; the world's first offshore CCS plant, in a push to advance innovation and development on the field of CO2 storage.
Subsurface Imaging, part of CGG’s Geoscience division, has been awarded a contract by Equinor for the processing of seismic data from the Johan Sverdrup Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) system in the North Sea.
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 814, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 15/6-15.
International casing and completion technology business, Deep Casing Tools (DCT), has formed an alliance in Norway with American multi-national corporation NOV Completion Tools.
TGS announced it will manage the new Atlantic Margin 2019 3D multi-client project in the Norwegian Sea.
Dutch offshore service provider Ampelmann has secured a contract with DeepOcean to support the hook-up and commissioning of the Valhall Flank West (VFW) project, operated by Aker BP.
The nomination committee in Equinor recommends that the company's corporate assembly elects Finn Bjørn Ruyter as new member to Equinor’s board of directors
Wiking Helikopter Service took delivery of another H145 helicopter in offshore configuration.