Faroe Petroleum and its partners have secured Odjfell Drilling鈥檚 Deepsea Bergen semisubmersible rig to drill the Goanna and Fogelberg wells in late 2017 and early 2018. The Goanna exploration well is expected to spud in Q4 2017 at License PL881鈥
IKM Subsea has started mobilization to the field of a permanently seabed installed remote operated vehicle (ROV), or residential ROV (RROV). The firm announced the award of a major ROV services contract for the fields Visund and Snorre B in the North Sea last August鈥
Norway鈥檚 Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has approved for Statoil to use the Bideford Dolphin mobile drilling facility for production drilling at Vigdis in the Norwegian North Sea. Statoil is to plug the B-1 AH production well on the Vigdis field鈥
Wood Group has been awarded a contract with Statoil to provide front end engineering design (FEED) to the subsea flowline system of the Snorre Expansion Project (SEP) in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract will be delivered by Wood Group鈥檚 Stavanger鈥
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out audits within several disciplines at Snorre B, which is operated by Statoil. From 24 October to 7 November 2016, the PSA carried out an audit of Statoil's handling of major accident and working environment risk at Snorre B鈥
Norwegian riser analytics firm 4Subsea has won a contract for monitoring flexible risers for Statoil on the Snorre B facility in the Norwegian North Sea. The project involves automated integrity monitor systems for six flexible risers the semisubmersible Snorre B platform鈥
Aqualis 云顶赌场老虎机 has been contracted by Aibel to conduct human factors analysis for a number of the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor鈥檚 ongoing projects on the Norwegian continental shelf. Under the contract,鈥
Norway鈥檚 Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has issued an order after identifying several regulation breaches at Statoil鈥檚 Troll field, stemming from an investigation of an 鈥渙ut of control鈥 incident that occurred last year. The Songa Endurance鈥
Norway's Aibel has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for modifications on the Snorre A facility in connection with Statoil's Snorre Expansion project in the Norwegian Sea. The contract also has an option for the actual implementation phase鈥
While cost cutting has been a top priority for many, if not all, in the industry, GCE Subsea members are also look to do things differently 鈥 to change the game. Elaine Maslin reports. Coast Centre Base 鈥 the centre of the activity鈥
Norway鈥檚 upstream sector continued to feel the pain of low oil prices in 2016, but looks poised to make a recovery in 2017, new research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie shows. Driving the recovery will be a step-change in exploration鈥
Norwegian oil firm Statoil has set out its plans to drill around 30 exploration wells, in up to 11 countries on five continents, as operator and partner, in 2017 - an increase of around 30% compared to 2016. More than half of the wells will be drilled on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)鈥
Norway鈥檚 Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has unveiled a number of failings, following an audit of Shell's management of the integrity of flexible risers, transfer lines and associated safety equipment on Knarr floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit鈥
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Statoil consent to use the Scarabeo 5 mobile drilling facility for well intervention in well 34/7-A-10H on the Snorre field. The activity is scheduled to begin in September and to last 22 days鈥
Elaine Maslin details Statoil鈥檚 journey towards the resident ROV 鈥 using an existing ROV design. The Merlin UCV. Photo from IKM Subsea. The concept of the subsea resident remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has been around for some time鈥
