12/10/2024 - Wintershall Dea (Harbour Energy) has proven gas in appraisal well 6507/4-5 S in the Norwegian Sea, 270 kilometres north of Kristiansund. The preliminary estimate of the size of the discover... |
12/2/2024 - DNO and its partners have discovered oil in the “Othello” prospect in the southern North Sea. The discovery was made in wildcat well 2/6-7 S in production licence 1086, which was awarded in... |
11/26/2024 - Petrolia Noco AS (49.9 % owned) today announced that drilling operations on the exploration well on the Løvmeis prospect in PL1013 have been concluded. The well is determined as a technical discovery ... |
11/14/2024 - Equinor has struck oil and gas near the Fram field in the North Sea. The discovery is estimated at between 13 and 28 million barrels of oil equivalent. An exploration well with sidetrack ha... |
11/14/2024 - Equinor and its partners have made an oil and gas discovery in wildcat wells 35/11-30 S and 35/11-30 A (“Rhombi”) in the North Sea. Preliminary estimates indicate the size of the discovery ... |
11/2/2024 - DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, announced an oil discovery in license PL1086 in which the Company holds a 50 percent operated interest with the balance held by partners Aker BP ASA (20 pe... |
10/3/2024 - Aker BP has proven gas in appraisal well 6507/2-7 S in the Norwegian Sea, 230 kilometres west of Sandnessjøen. The well, situated around 12 kilometres west of the Skarv field, was drilled t... |
9/24/2024 - DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, today announced completion of a second well delineating the play-opening 2023 Heisenberg oil and gas discovery in Norwegian North Sea license PL827SB. Enc... |
9/23/2024 - A Norwegian Offshore Directorate analysis of exploration activity over the last 20 years (2004-2023) shows that the discoveries are valued at three times the costs expended. The Norwegian O... |
9/17/2024 - Equinor and its partners have made an oil and gas discovery in wildcat wells 15/3-13 S and 15/3-13 A on the Gudrun field in the North Sea. These were exploration wells number 13 and 14 in p... |
9/10/2024 - Equinor and its partners have proven gas/condensate in development well 6406/2-L-2 H, 260 kms southwest of Brønnøysund. The well was drilled in connection with the Lavrans discovery, which ... |
9/10/2024 - The Norwegian Offshore Directorate is organising an exploration seminar in Stavanger on 23-24 October. The agenda has now been announced. The objective of the event is to highlight challen... |
9/6/2024 - The authorities have received applications from 21 companies in the Awards in predefined areas (APA) 2024. The deadline for applications was 3 September. “It’s gratifying to see the continu... |
7/10/2024 - Wellesley Petroleum has proven oil and gas in the Gnomoria Appraisal (35/10-12 S) well in the North Sea, about 100 kilometres southwest of Florø. This is the first appraisal well to be dril... |
6/28/2024 - Aker BP and its partners have discovered gas in wildcat well 7324/8-4 (Hassel) in the Barents Sea, around 300 kilometres from the northern coast of Norway. This is the second well to be dri... |
6/28/2024 - INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announced that its subsidiary INPEX
Norway Co., Ltd. (INPEX Norway) has discovered oil and gas columns as a result of drilling the
36/7-5S exploration well from March until... |
6/27/2024 - Vår Energi has made an oil and gas discovery in well 36/7-5 S “Cerisa” and sidetracks 36/7-5 A, B and C. The discovery was made in production licence 636 just north of the Duva field, 50 ki... |
6/27/2024 - The Vår Energi operated Cerisa exploration well in production license PL 636 was successful with estimated gross recoverable resources of between 18-39 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe). ... |
6/20/2024 - Aker BP has made a gas discovery in exploration well 7324/6-2 – “Ferdinand nord” – in the Barents Sea. This is the first well in... |
6/19/2024 - Wintershall Dea has made a discovery of gas, condensate and oil in well 35/11-27 S in the North Sea, 100 kilometres southwest of Florø. The “Cuvette” dis... |