Norway Overview

Norwegian E&P company Statoil has opened a probe into the chemical leak at its subsea Gullfaks project just one month after the North Sea field came online.…

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate gave German exploration company Wintershall permission to drill a wildcat well in the Barents Sea. The well will be Wintershall’s…

Statoil has cancelled a drillship contract with Transocean six months before its expiration due to a lack of additional work for the vessel, the Norwegian operator…

Wood Group was awarded a $400-million main contractor framework agreement for four Statoil installations on the Norwegian continental shelf, the multinational oilfield…

Norway’s Statoil announced Tuesday that it awarded maintenance and modification contracts worth $2.77 billion for its offshore and onshore oil and gas facilities in…

Norwegian seismic provider Dolphin Geophysical filed for bankruptcy Monday after it failed to reach a restructuring deal with stakeholders. GC Rieber Shipping, which…

Statoil announced plans to resume exploration in the Barents Sea on Thursday, submitting bids for blocks on offer in Norway’s licensing rounds. The company has been…

Italian player Snam has agreed to buy Statoil’s stake in the Trans-Adriatic pipeline (TAP), which will carry gas from the Turkish border with Greece to Italy.

The…

BP has awarded Aker Solutions a $369-million contract to provide maintenance and modification services in the North Sea.

The contract for work on BP fields offshore…

Oil and gas investments in Norway are slated to drop by 20 percent from 2014 levels next year, an official survey has predicted.

Statistics Norway, a government…