591 results found for 'Gullfaks'

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  • Odfjell Drilling-managed rig going back to Europe for multimillion-dollar work in Norwegian waters

    18 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Northern Ocean (NOL) has won a short-term gig with an undisclosed operator and a long-term assignment with Norway’s energy giant Equinor on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) for a semi-submersible rig, which is currently in Africa.

  • Giant Heerema vessel installs offshore wind-powered gas platform in North Sea

    9 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Heerema Marine Contractors has completed the installation of a gas platform in the North Sea that is set to be powered by offshore wind as part of a project operated by Dutch exploration and production player ONE-Dyas. Following the discovery of the N05-A field in August 2017, ONE-Dyas secured the final permits for the gas project in June 2022. The […]

  • With financial support, Equinor backs Reach Subsea’s USV qualification program

    24 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Vessels, Vision

    Norway’s Reach Subsea is collaborating with compatriot state-owned energy giant Equinor to carry out a technology qualification program for the Reach Remote uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) that aims to validate remote operations for various tasks. Reach Remote 1 and 2 have entered the final testing stage and the agreement between the two companies confirms the qualification […]

  • After Equinor, TotalEnergies enters Reach Subsea’s USV qualification program

    29 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology

    A couple of months after Equinor revealed its participation in the technology qualification program for Reach Subsea’s Reach Remote uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), France’s energy giant TotalEnergies joined as a new collaboration partner. The pilot project with Equinor, TotalEnergies and other “major” energy companies includes a variety of relevant survey, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) intervention, […]

  • Derisking offshore wind potential as seabed intelligence sheds more light on Finland’s ‘key prospective’ leasing areas to unleash 6 GW of power 

    26 September 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Given the fast-increasing popularity of offshore wind developments within the growing decarbonization push toward renewable and clean power in the energy transition era to a net zero future, Global Maritime’s Geosciences department, GM Geo, has launched a geological, geohazard, and geotechnical desktop study, covering up to 6 GW of offshore wind leasing areas in the […]

  • Seabed survey of potential offshore wind area in North Sea goes to Finnish firm

    15 April 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    Arctia has been tasked with carrying out a hydrographic seabed survey of a potential offshore wind farm area in the Norwegian waters.

  • Dutch player rolls out topside for offshore wind-powered North Sea gas platform

    16 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Transition

    HSM Offshore Energy has launched the topside piece of a gas platform, which will be deployed in the Dutch sector of the North Sea and run on offshore wind power.

  • Equinor keeps Archer busy with platform drilling gigs worth over $762 million

    14 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Archer has tucked a long-term contract extension under its belt with Equinor for platform drilling services off the coast of Norway.

  • Trio snaps up more than $1.75 billion for drilling jobs on Equinor’s 19 offshore oil & gas assets

    14 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Equinor has handed out four-year contract extensions to three companies for work on 19 platforms located off the coast of Norway.

  • Gullfaks faults found

    28 July 2008

    Four non-confirmities relating to offshore regulations have been found during an audit of StatoilHydro’s Gullfaks C platform. One of the defects related to the platform’s firewater system – which was also found to be defective in the Piper Alpha disaster in the UK sector of the North sea 20 years ago this month. Investigators from […]

  • Gullfaks increases production

    28 January 2007

    Production from Statoil’s Skinfaks/Rimfaks project in the North Sea started on 27 January. First oil will be from Rimfaks improved oil recovery (IOR). In addition to IOR at the Rimfaks field, the project also marks the start of Skinfaks field production. All wells will be on stream in the course of autumn 2007 with both […]

  • PSA probes Statoil’s Gullfaks A

    13 May 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has revealed results of the audit relating to the life extension of the Gullfaks A. PSA said in a statement on Friday that it carried out a working environment audit between 8 and 10 March relating to Statoil’s plan to extend the Gullfaks A operation up to 2036. […]

  • Statoil Responsible operation at Gullfaks

    31 January 2011

    Statoil held a follow-up meeting with the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) today in which we reviewed the status after the C06 incident at Gullfaks. “We addressed two topics in the meeting, specifically those relating to well integrity and pressure build-up in the Shetland formation,” says head of Gullfaks, Gunnar Nakken.

  • Statoil to Plug Gullfaks Well

    31 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use Songa Dee for well plugging at Gullfaks Sør. Statoil is the operator at Gullfaks Sør, located in block 34/10 in the northern part of the North Sea. The field has been developed using a subsea solution tied back to the Gullfaks A and […]

  • Statoil to Extend Lifetime of Gullfaks B

    20 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has received consent from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to extend the lifetime of the Gullfaks B facility and its associated pipelines. Statoil is the operator of the Gullfaks field, located in block 34/10 at Tampen in the northern part of the North Sea. Gullfaks has been developed using three integrated processing, drilling and […]

  • Statoil Celebrates 30 Years of Gullfaks

    22 December 2016

    Norwegian oil and gas giant, Statoil, has marked 30 years of Gullfaks oil field, which started production on December 22, 1986. The Gullfaks was the first field where Statoil was both the developer and the operator. “Gullfaks is a prime example of the best that this industry has achieved in Norway,” said Gunnar Nakken, senior […]

  • Proserv to provide HPUs for Statoil’s Gullfaks

    12 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Proserv, an energy services company, has been awarded a multi-million pound contract with Statoil for the provision of production control equipment in Norway. Proserv will supply five wellhead hydraulic power units (HPUs) for Statoil’s Gullfaks oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea which is undergoing an extensive topside upgrade program. The […]

  • Statoil to Spud Gullfaks Template

    13 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use the Songa Dee mobile drilling facility for production drilling on Gullfaks satellites, well template P. The consent entails an extension of an existing consent for Songa Dee at Gullfaks issued in June 2011. Three satellite fields: Gullfaks South, Rimfaks, Skinfaks and Gullveig have […]

  • PSA: Gullfaks A platform needs improvements

    31 March 2014

    From 3 to 7 March 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) and Gullfaks A platform in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The objective of the audit was to assess the company’s control and management of materials handling, the technical condition of lifting equipment […]

  • Equinor to Extend Lifetime of Gullfaks C

    5 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is giving a green light to using the C platform on the Gullfaks field in the North Sea until 30 June 2036. This corresponds to the entire period of the production licence. In its application, Equinor notes that the facility can be operated at a profit up to 2032, with […]

  • Statoil Starts Up Gullfaks Satellite

    30 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil’s Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen (GRD) field came online, below budget and ahead of schedule, Norwegian oil and gas major informed on Tuesday. The project, previously scheduled for start-up on Christmas Eve this year, is more than NOK 1 billion below the estimate of the plan for development and operation (PDO), reducing costs from NOK 4.8 billion to […]

  • Technip Bags Gullfaks Subsea Deal

    28 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Technip has won a contract with Statoil ASA for the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen (GRD) Marine Operations Pipelay and Subsea Installation project. The project is an option to the Snøhvit CO2 Solution project awarded in 2013. The GRD project scope consists of a subsea tie-back to a new Wye piece on an existing pipeline close to the Gullfaks […]

  • Aibel to Upgrade Gullfaks B (Norway)

    16 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    The contract, which relates to upgrading the drilling system on Gullfaks B platform in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, was yesterday signed by Statoil and Aibel representatives. “This is a major contract for Aibel which we are proud to be awarded in tough competition with other suppliers. We would like to thank Statoil […]

  • Equinor to Recover More from Gullfaks

    16 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Gullfaks partners have decided to drill seven new wells and thereby improve oil recovery by 17 million barrels. On behalf of the licence partners, Equinor’s executive vice president for Development and Production Norway, Arne Sigve Nylund, presented an amended plan for development and operation (PDO) to the minister of petroleum and energy, Kjell-Børge Freiberg, […]

  • Statoil Presents Gullfaks Area PDO

    30 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Statoil and its partners have today submitted an amendment to the Plan for Development and Operations (PDO) for the Gullfaks licence to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for phase 1 of the Shetland/Lista development. Phase 1 of the development is expected to add 18 million barrels of oil equivalent, and will help increase the […]