barents sea

Equinor, in collaboration with Vår Energi, is set to implement a new area-wide emergency preparedness system for the southwestern Barents Sea, scheduled to be

OSLO, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Norway is proceeding with plans to award oil and gas exploration permits in frontier regions of the Arctic later this year, Oil

Norway-based Equinor says it has struck oil in the Sputnik exploration well located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the Barents Sea. Recoverable

By Alister Doyle OSLO, May 15 (Reuters) – An architect of the Paris climate agreement urged governments on Tuesday to halt oil exploration in the Arctic,

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — After a disappointing year for drillers, Norwegian authorities are reviewing their hopes for the Nordic country’s

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — With the oil industry barely recovering from its most brutal slump in decades, you might expect the Arctic Ocean to be the

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Norway’s Arctic ambitions just got a $7 billion boost from Statoil ASA. Norway’s largest oil company was able to halve

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Russian oil companies OAO Rosneft and Lukoil PJSC were among 26 explorers to apply for blocks in Norway’s new licensing

Norwegian energy firm Statoil will not drill exploration wells in the Arctic Barents Sea this year after a failed campaign in 2014, exploration chief Tim

210 kilometers north of Hammerfest, the Transocean Spitsbergen found nothing of consequence after drilling the last of Statoil’s wildcat wells in the

Under contract to Statoil, the Transocean Spitsbergen discovered a 15 meter column of gas while drilling in the Pingvin Prospect NNW of the Johan Castberg

A total of 33 oil and gas companies have now signed on to take part in a joint seismic acquisition project to map a new area of the Norwegian arctic in an

Lundin Petroleum announced today that they have spudded in at the Gohta Prospect located approximately 150 km northwest of the northern tip of Norway in the

MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has reassured the chief executives of France’s Total SA (TOT) and Norway’s Statoil

Statoil has awarded Sevan Marine a study of the potential application of a Sevan FPSO for Statoil’s Skrugard / Havis development in the Norwegian Barents

(Dow Jones) The Norwegian government Wednesday announced it will start a geological survey of what oil and gas assets the Northern part of a previously