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  • PSA Norway: Well Control Incidents on the Rise

    22 November 2013

    Well control incidents and barrier management were on the agenda at the annual contractor seminar organised by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) and held last Tuesday. “We are regrettably not seeing a positive trend in the fall in well control incidents, which is worrying”, said PSA Director General Anne Myhrvold in her introduction. Against […]

  • PSA Norway Accomplishes Audit of Maintenance Management on Brage

    20 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    From 14-17 June 2011, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of maintenance management on Brage. Background During the audit in 2010, the status of maintenance management in Statoil EPN and associated challenges was presented to us in several meetings. It emerged that Statoil EPN has challenges with e.g. handling a large […]

  • Statoil to Use Subsea Facility on Vigdis (Norway)

    22 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has been granted consent for use of the subsea facility on Vigdis, with associated risers and pipelines, beyond the original design life, up to expiry of the production licence in 2024. Vigdis is an oil field in block 34/7 in the northern part of the North Sea, between Snorre and Gullfaks, at a depth […]

  • PSA Norway Finds No Anomalies During Statfjord B Barrier Audit

    1 April 2011
    Business & Finance

      During the period 2-4 February 2011, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of selected technical and operational barriers in the process facility on Statfjord B. The audit is part of the processing in connection with the application for extended lifetime for Statfjord B(photo). One of the PSA’s main priorities is […]

  • PSA Norway Carries Out Maintenance Management Audit on Brage

    10 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    From 14-17 June 2011, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of maintenance management on Brage. Background During our audit in 2010, the status of maintenance management in Statoil EPN and associated challenges was presented to us in several meetings. It emerged that Statoil EPN has challenges with e.g. handling a large […]

  • Norway: Temporarily Abandoned Wells Pose Environmental Threat

    6 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) acquired and processed information from eight operating companies that are responsible for the 193 temporarily abandoned wells on the Norwegian shelf. The survey shows that 38 per cent of these wells do not have two intact barriers pursuant to the intention in the regulations. In February 2011, the PSA […]

  • Saipem to pay up for overtime work violation on rig

    5 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Saipem will have to pay compensation to two offshore workers in Norway due to the violation of working hours regulations.

  • Aker BP given notice of order following Ula audit

    23 May 2019

    The PSA has given a notice of order to Aker BP regarding its logistics and management of health risk on Ula D and P platforms.

  • PTTEP crew not prepared for oil spill at Montara, regulator says

    23 June 2017

    Australia’s offshore petroleum safety body NOPSEMA has issued an improvement notice to PTTEP Australasia regarding environmental management non-compliance associated with its Montara field operations. The regulator said the move was not related to an oil spill incident, but to incident prevention. Namely the watchdog said that PTTEP’s emergency management personnel was not properly trained and competent to […]

  • OMV gets thumbs-up for Norwegian Sea ops

    10 February 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    OMV has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator for exploration drilling of a pilot hole in the Norwegian Sea.

  • Offshore watchdog earmarks funds for better incident follow-up in oil & gas

    18 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Norwegian regulator will invest $1.9 million annually in a drive to advance the follow-up of serious incidents in the oil & gas sector.

  • Repsol hires ‘Rowan Stavanger’ for Varg P&A

    2 June 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Spanish oil firm Repsol has hired the Rowan Stavanger jack-up rig for work off Norway. According to Petro.no, a Norwegian language energy news website, Repsol will use the rig for plugging and abandonment work at its Varg field, located in the North Sea offshore Norway. The rig has been out of work since mid-2015. Following this […]

  • OKEA to live stream offshore well log on Twitch

    15 October 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil and gas company OKEA will on Tuesday start the Draugen drilling campaign offshore Norway, using the Deepsea Nordkapp rig. OKEA will live stream the drilling log from the drilling operations on the semi-submersible rig. 

  • Equinor receives PSA’s Hammerfest LNG report

    17 November 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Norwegian energy giant and LNG operator Equinor has received PSA’s Hammerfest LNG inspection report.

  • Offshore regulator follows up on Equinor’s Johan Castberg development

    28 October 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    The PSA, Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, has confirmed Equinor will not get consent for Johan Castberg until the operator corrects all nonconformities.

  • Aker BP to face safety order after serious breaches on Ula field

    3 December 2018

    Norwegian offshore safety body, the PSA, has given a notice of order to Aker BP following an audit of the Ula field.

  • PSA Norway: New Info on Offshore Stability Issues Revealed

    16 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    The investigation conducted by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) into the Floatel Superior stability incident on 7 November 2012 has yielded new knowledge about securing anchors and transport at transit draft. It has also exposed challenges related to regulations, classification and design assumptions. An unsecured anchor caused the hull of the Floatel Superior accommodation […]

  • Update: 13 presumed dead in heli crash off Norway

    29 April 2016

    A CHC-operated helicopter carrying offshore workers crashed near Bergen, offshore Norway on Friday. According to Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Norway, eleven bodies have been found. The helicopter was on its way from Statoil’s Gullfaks B platform when it crashed. The production at Gullfaks B has been temporarily shut down. Search for the remaining two workers was […]

  • Aker BP finds more oil in North Sea thanks to new discovery

    13 April 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Norwegian oil and gas player Aker BP has made a new oil discovery in the North Sea off Norway, using a Saipem-owned rig.

  • After finding cracks on gas coolers, Equinor ordered to ensure maintenance of North Sea platform

    17 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Norwegian safety regulator has finished investigating an incident with gas cooler cracks on one of the Equinor-operated North Sea platforms.

  • Norway Approves Oseberg Vestflanken 2

    14 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has sanctioned the plan for development and operation (PDO) of Oseberg Vestflanken 2. Reserves projected at 110 million barrels of oil equivalent the investments are estimated at NOK 8.2 billion (2015). The Oseberg Vestflanken 2 development consists of an unmanned wellhead platform with ten well slots. In addition two […]

  • Aker BP cleared to drill pilot well in North Sea

    12 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Norwegian offshore regulator has granted Aker BP consent for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using the Deepsea Nordkapp rig.

  • Vår Energi makes ‘largest discovery of the year’ in Barents Sea

    23 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi has made what is said is the “largest discovery of the year” in the Goliat area in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. Vår Energi confirmed on 23 December the discovery of gas in its operated 7122/9-1 T2 Lupa well. Preliminary estimates of the size of the discovery are between […]

  • Wintershall Dea cleared to deploy well intervention vessel off Norway

    27 January 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    Wintershall Dea has received consent to use one of Island Offshore’s vessels for light well intervention work on four fields offshore Norway.

  • Equinor hires Noble rig for Valemon campaign

    9 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Noble Corporation has been awarded a contract by Equinor for drilling three wells at the Valemon field from the summer of 2021, using the Noble Lloyd Noble drilling rig.