Aibel has bagged a portfolio agreement from Equinor for carrying out modification tasks on the Oseberg oil field in the North Sea. The Norwegian oil industry company said that the first call-off of the agreement is for undertaking front-end engineering and design (FEED) of Oseberg Gas Capacity Upgrade and Power from Shore (OGP). According to […]
Odfjell Drilling is set to win a contract worth around $150 million to deploy its Deepsea Atlantic rig for Equinor and its partners for the drilling of a dozen wells for the Johan Sverdrup project phase 2 in the Norwegian North sea. The Deepsea Atlantic rig was previously used during the phase 1 development of […]
Equinor Energy, the operator of production licence 827 S in the Norwegian North Sea, has failed to find any hydrocarbons following the drilling of wildcat well 35/10-6. The wildcat well was drilled nearly 20 kilometres northwest of the Fram field in the northern region of the North Sea, and nearly 145 kilometres northwest of Bergen. […]
Oil and gas giants Equinor, Shell and Total have taken the decision to make initial investments of nearly NOK 6.9 billion ($680 million) in the Northern Lights CCS project, the first-ever carbon capture and storage project (CCS Project) on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Equinor said that plans for development and operation of the CCS project […]
Monument oil discovery : Equinor and its partners Progress Resources USA and Repsol E&P USA have made an oil discovery in the US Gulf of Mexico following the drilling of the Monument exploration well. According to Equinor, the Monument exploration well intersected nearly 60 metres of net oil pay with good reservoir characteristics in Paleogene […]
Uirapuru oil discovery : Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has pulled off an oil discovery in the Uirapuru block in the Santos Basin pre-salt in Brazilian waters through the drilling of a pioneer well. The Brazilian oil giant said that the pioneer well is located nearly 200km off the coast of the city of Santos in São […]
Equinor said that the first phase of the Johan Sverdrup project in the North Sea is expected to hit plateau production in early May, which is much earlier than previously anticipated by the company and its partners. The Norwegian oil and gas giant said that by the end of March, the daily oil production at […]
Equinor coronavirus case : Oil and gas giant Equinor revealed that one of its personnel at the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian North Sea has been found to have contracted the novel coronavirus. Currently, the Martin Linge field is under construction and is targeted to begin production at the end of this year. As […]
Oil and gas giants Equinor, Shell, and Total have reported positive results from the drilling of an exploration well 31/5-7 Eos located south of the Troll field in the North Sea as part of the Northern Lights CCS project. The drilling of the wildcat well 31/5-7 is to study if the reservoir in the Johansen […]
Sigrun East oil discovery : Equinor and its partner Neptune Energy have pulled off an oil discovery in the Sigrun East prospect in the Norwegian North Sea, believed to have estimated recoverable resources of 7-17 million barrels of oil equivalent. The oil discovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf was made in production licence PL 025 […]