766 results found for 'The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway audit '

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  • Beach Energy gets nod to drill in Australian waters

    11 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    NOPSEMA has accepted an environment plan (EP) for drilling and plug-and-abandon (P&A) activities offshore Australia submitted by Beach Energy (Operations) Limited, a subsidiary of the country’s oil and gas player Beach Energy.

  • Seabed surveys on ConocoPhillips’ agenda for April ahead of drilling ops offshore Australia

    17 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Vessels

    ConocoPhillips has penciled in the start of seabed surveys next month to find drilling locations for its upcoming Otway exploration drilling program (OEDP), envisioned to discover more Australian gas with a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean, a Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor.

  • FPSO newbuild sets course from Singapore to Australia

    28 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    A floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit operated by Norway’s BW Offshore has left Seatrium’s yard in Singapore and is headed to work off the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory. Fully commissioned and ready for offshore deployment, the BW Opal left Seatrium’s Tuas Boulevard Yard and was guided out of the bay on the […]

  • Transocean rig on the move as potentially ‘transformational’ offshore drilling campaign inches closer

    3 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    ConocoPhillips has received a green light for its environment plan (EP), which sets a timeline for the start-up of its upcoming Otway exploration drilling program (OEDP) in 2025. The exploration campaign will be conducted with a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean.

  • Transocean rig reaches Australian waters to embark on ‘critical’ gas search

    10 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    ConocoPhillips is laying the groundwork to kick off seabed surveys this month ahead of exploration drilling activities for which a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean has arrived in the Otway Basin to find commercially viable natural gas reserves to keep fears of shortfalls at bay.

  • Europe cranks up the heat on Russia’s shadow fleet with latest sanctions package

    24 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy

    The European Council has adopted the 16th package of sanctions against Russia to ‘ramp up’ the pressure on the country’s so-called ‘shadow’ fleet as well as curb attempts to circumvent the measures. Now well into its fourth year, Russia’s aggression on Ukraine continues to disturb the balance of global geopolitics. Exploiting loopholes and opaque ownership […]

  • Yinson Production names world’s first FPSO sporting post-combustion carbon capture tech

    20 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Exploration & Production, Technology, Transition

    Yinson Production has held a naming and sailaway ceremony for an FPSO destined to operate off the coast of Angola, which is said to be the first of its kind that has been equipped with a post-combustion carbon capture pilot system to decarbonize operations.

  • America and UK put two Russian oil majors on blacklist, as US sanctions spree spreads to 183 ‘shadow fleet’ vessels

    13 January 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The latest raft of sanctions, which comes from the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom (UK), targets Russia’s energy sector by focusing on two giant Russian oil producers alongside means of enabling crude oil production and exports.

  • 2024 energy plays in review: Uptick in renewables and clean tech, but oil & gas still hold energy security keys

    1 January 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    As another turbulent year for the energy markets, 2024 witnessed a further escalation in geopolitical tensions and conflicts, leading to a mixed bag of achievements, missed opportunities, and rough energy seas not only for the goal of tripling clean sources of supply but also for dominant fossil fuels, which showed their resilience in the face of multiple legal challenges aiming to shut oil, gas, and liquified natural gas (LNG) down.

  • ConocoPhillips hires Sea1 Offshore vessels to support Transocean rig’s drilling ops

    11 October 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    ConocoPhillips has picked anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTSVs) for its upcoming Otway exploration drilling program (OEDP) in 2025, which will be done with a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean, a Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor.

  • Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips get their hands on total profits of more than $29 billion

    4 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    European and U.S. oil majors – the UK’s duo Shell and BP, France’s TotalEnergies, Norway’s Equinor, and Italy’s Eni alongside U.S.-based trio: ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips – have posted strong sets of results even though they collected around $4.7 billion less in combined profit during the quarter, which amounts to about 29.2 billion, compared to $33.9 billion gathered in the prior quarter.

  • PSA Audits Statoil and Technip in Connection With Divers as Potential Group Exposed to Risk (Norway)

    15 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway audited Statoil Petroleum and the diving contractor Technip Norge on 2 December 2010 in connection with follow-up of divers as a group exposed to risk. This audit is a part of a major pan-industry audit activity directed at multiple players. Background On the basis of experience from follow-up of […]

  • Petroleum Safety Authority in Goliat FPSO Audit (Norway)

    6 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway carried out an audit of materials handling on the Goliat FPSO. The objective of the audit was to verify the company’s management of technical, operational and administrative aspects of materials handling on the Goliath FPSO, and measure this against the company’s own and the authorities’ requirements. Result Non-conformities were identified […]

  • 21 oil & gas firms show ‘great faith’ in hydrocarbon exploration in Norwegian waters

    6 September 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    21 companies have submitted offers for production licenses, as part of the award in pre-defined areas 2024 (APA 2024) licensing round, indicating their interest in further exploration activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

  • Security flaws found on West Epsilon jack-up drilling rig

    1 February 2016
    Equipment

    Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has found security flaws on North Atlantic Drilling’s jack-up rig West Epsilon during an inspection conducted in November. At the time of the inspection, between November 23 and 25, the rig was under a contract with Statoil on the oil and gas company’s Gudrun field, offshore Norway. The drilling rig West […]

  • PSA takes closer look at Johan Castberg

    13 May 2016
    Project & Tenders

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, has published results of Statoil’s Johan Catsberg FPSO audit conducted last month. Result, no nonconformities found, but for one improvement point. PSA said the audit was done to investigate whether the maritime standards that Statoil opted to apply comply with the regulatory requirement to use recognized […]

  • PSA audits Statfjord A safety management

    14 October 2014
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil’s management of the domains of electrical installations, safety instrumented systems and technical safety at Statfjord A platform, in the North Sea.  The Statfjord field is in the Tampen area, in the northern part of the North Sea, offshore Norway. Statfjord A is […]

  • Safety authority finds flaws at Statoil’s Valemon (Norway)

    8 January 2016

    While conducting an audit of the Valemon platform in the North Sea, the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority found shortcomings in the platform’s security. The audit of the Statoil-operated Valemon platform was conducted from October 26 to November 5, 2015, and included checks of barrier management, technical safety and electrical installations. PSA Norway identified four non-conformities related to electrical […]

  • PSA identifies need for internal auditing improvement at Faroe Petroleum

    26 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of Faroe Petroleum AS as a licensee in development licences. The objective of the activity was to audit the company’s fulfilment of its licensee obligations. The main elements of the audit related to management systems, documentation and management of risk, including major accident risk. […]

  • PSA Conducts Audit of ENI Norge’s Goliat FPSO

    6 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    From 18 December 2013 to 23 January 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway carried out an audit of materials handling on the Goliat FPSO. The objective of the audit was to verify the company’s management of technical, operational and administrative aspects of materials handling on the Goliath FPSO, and measure this against the company’s own […]

  • Songa’s fourth Cat D rig gets nod from offshore safety watchdog

    20 July 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority, has given an Acknowledgment of Compliance (AoC) to Songa’s fourth Cat D semi-submersible rig, the Songa Enabler. Songa Enabler is Songa Offshore’s fourth and final Cat D rig, built for and contracted to Statoil. Songa took delivery of the Songa Enabler from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering […]

  • PSA inspects Åsgard subsea compression project

    11 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    On 18 February 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of the Åsgard subsea compression project at Aker Solutions in Egersund, Norway. The objective of the audit was to acquire a status update for the project and to review the equipment that will be produced in Egersund. There was an additional […]

  • Eni’s Goliat passes environmental data collection test

    28 December 2016

    Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has carried out an audit of environmental data collection at Eni’s Goliat FPSO in the Barents Sea, off Norway. The regulations instruct the companies to equip the facilities with instrumentation for recording environmental data of potential significance for petroleum activities. According to the safety authority, in the Barents Sea, environmental […]

  • Good progress on Skarv FPSO

    8 August 2008

    Engineering work carried out on the hull of the Skarv FPSO at the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea is “excellent”, an inspection performed by Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has revealed. The PSA said it had carried out the audit to verify that BP Norge’s engineering of the Skarv facility complies with the […]

  • Eni gains nod to bring Goliat back on stream

    11 December 2017
    Infrastructure

    Italian oil company Eni has received permission from Norwegian authorities to restart production from its Goliat field located in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.