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    Geosciences

    Nordic countries pursuing seabed minerals database

    April 16, 2024
    The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has entered a memorandum of understanding to collaborate with Greenland and Denmark on acquiring new data on seabed minerals.

    Norway

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    Courtesy Aker BP
    Ivar Aasen
    Courtesy Aker Solutions
    Courtesy Bernhard Schulte
    Courtesy Wintershall Dea/Thor Oliversen
    Drilling & Completion

    Bergknapp well offshore mid-Norway firms up oil, gas volumes

    Dec. 13, 2023
    The Transocean Norge semisub has completed an appraisal well for Wintershall Dea and its partners on the 2020 Bergknapp light oil discovery in the Norwegian Sea.
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    Offshore Oil Gas
    Business Briefs

    NPD releases more relinquished offshore data to explorers

    Oct. 2, 2023
    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is making publicly available nearly 6,000 datasets from relinquished areas across the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
    Courtesy OKEA
    Draugen
    Subsea

    PSA authorizes startup preparations for Hasselmus tieback offshore mid-Norway

    Sept. 28, 2023
    OKEA has permission from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the facilities for the new Hasselmus subsea tieback on the Draugen Field platform in the southern Norwegian...
    Courtesy OMV
    PL1016 is within tieback reach (45 km) of the deepwater Equinor-operated Aasta Hansteen Field. The Aasta Hansteen platform is pictured.
    Norway

    OMV makes small gas find at Velocette offshore mid-Norway

    Sept. 20, 2023
    Longboat Energy has announced a minor discovery at the Velocette (PL1016) exploration well in Norway (Longboat JAPEX Norge AS 20%).
    Courtesy Equinor
    Johan Castberg
    Field Development

    Further price hike for Barents Sea Castberg oil project

    Sept. 19, 2023
    Johan Castberg development project remains on track for startup in late 2024.