The Norwegian Offshore Directorate was established in 1972 and is a state-level specialist directorate and public administrative body reporting to Norway's Ministry of Energy.
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) changed its name to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) in January 2024. The name change reflects that the Directorate has been tasked with additional responsibilities in recent years associated with CO2 storage (CCS), offshore wind and seabed minerals.
The NOD says its primary objective is to contribute to the greatest possible values for society from the oil and gas activities through efficient and prudent resource management, where due consideration is given to HSE and other users of the ocean.
Twenty-one E&P companies have applied for acreage in Norway's APA 2026 licensing round, which includes an expanded predefined area across the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents...
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate says advanced recovery techniques, including chemical EOR and CO2 injection, could help unlock stranded offshore discoveries and add hundreds...
A small gas-condensate discovery near the Balder Field could add to future tieback opportunities as Equinor and Aker BP evaluate remaining prospectivity in the license area.
A taskforce at the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has begun investigating the feasibility of applying advanced techniques at certain fields with a profitable outcome.
The field, discovered by Shell in 2009, is one of Norway’s largest, but with major uncertainty over recoverable volumes. Results from a recent subsurface study will be made available...
The new initiative, supported by the Energy Ministry, advocates increased adoption of new technologies for drilling operations to sustain Norway’s production going forward.
The OKEA-operated development well, which came onstream earlier this month, also encountered a new, potentially commercial hydrocarbon accumulation named Knockando Fensfjord. ...
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has entered a memorandum of understanding to collaborate with Greenland and Denmark on acquiring new data on seabed minerals.
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has authorized Aker BP to drill three exploration wells in the Barents Sea, using Saipem’s semisub Scarabeo 8.
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate wants to see more active exploration of frontier areas to realize more of the resource potential. That means a commitment to testing new ideas...
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is making publicly available nearly 6,000 datasets from relinquished areas across the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Oct. 2, 2023
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Aside from fewer wells, the outlook is for steadily decreasing investments with few large new field developments in prospect, according to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate’s...
Equinor should shortly start exporting gas from the Troll B platform in the North Sea via a newly installed pipeline connected to the existing Kvitebjørn gas export system.
The process had been expanded this year to include 68 further blocks in the Barents Sea and eight blocks in the Norwegian Sea, with awards set to be announced early in 2026.
The Deepsea Yantai semisub has finished drilling a second appraisal well for ConocoPhillips Skandinavia on the 2020 Salgugle oil discovery in the Norwegian Sea.
An exploratory well for the Havstjerne CO2 storage project offshore Norway in the North Sea has confirmed a reservoir suitable for injection and storage of carbon dioxide.
