Drilling News in Norway
| 6/6/2018 - On behalf of the licensees in production licence 199, Equinor has been given consent to drill exploration well 6406/2-9 S. The well is to be drilled to investigate a prospect named "Ragnfrid Nord", ju... |
| 6/1/2018 - Shell is the operator for production licence 373 S in the North Sea. Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given Norske Shell consent to drill exploration well 34/5-2 S. The purpose of the well is t... |
| 5/30/2018 - Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 659, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 7221/12-1.
The well was drilled about 20 km west of the 7222/11-2 discovery well (Langlitinden) in the Bare... |
| 5/30/2018 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wellesley Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 35/12-7, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations. ... |
| 5/28/2018 - Ocean Rig UDW Inc., an international contractor of offshore deepwater drilling services, has signed a Master Service Agreement with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS for a term of three years plus two opt... |
| 5/25/2018 - Equinor and its partners make investments in the Fram field that will almost double remaining reserves. Last autumn the Fram licence partners decided to invest more than NOK 1 billion in a new gas mod... |
| 5/16/2018 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted A/S Norske Shell a drilling permit for well 34/5-2 S, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations. ... |
| 4/20/2018 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for well 7221/12-1, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations. ... |
| 4/16/2018 - Global drilling and engineering contractor KCA Deutag has announced that its Norwegian operation, KCA Deutag Drilling Norge, has been granted an extension to its current drilling contract on the Ringh... |
| 3/26/2018 - Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has successfully completed the Luno II appraisal well 16/4-11 in PL359 o... |
| 3/26/2018 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has announced that Spirit Energy Norge, operator of production licence PL 682, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat wells 35/9-13 and 35/9-... |
| 3/12/2018 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 34/8-19 S, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 34/8-19 S will be drilled from th... |
| 2/27/2018 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7220/11-5 S, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7220/11-5 S will be drilled f... |
| 2/26/2018 - Statoil reports that on 25 February drilling started at Oseberg Vestflanken 2. On the Capital Markets Day on 7 February the project could boast break-even reduction from USD 34 to USD 16 per barrel. T... |
| 2/8/2018 - BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd. has declared the first two options under its recently announced contract for use of the semi-submersible drilling rig Blackford Dolphin. The estimated contract va... |
| 2/5/2018 - Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway, the UK and Atlantic Margin, announces the commencement of th... |
| 1/31/2018 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for well 6507/5-8, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations. ... |
| 1/26/2018 - Wellesley Petroleum AS announces an agreement with Transocean for a three-firm slot contract with the Transocean Arctic semi-sub rig. The commencement date for the contract is 1st June 2018. ... |
| 1/12/2018 - Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given Spirit Energy (formerly Centrica E&P Norge) consent to use of the Island Innovator mobile drilling facility for drilling and testing wildcat wells 6506/9-... |
| 1/5/2018 - The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/4-11, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. ... |
