When the world’s top gas traders met in late April at a canal-side hotel on the outskirts of Amsterdam, the atmosphere was business-as-usual: coffee, croissants and wrangling over deals for the upcoming winter. Then came news of a leak at Europe’s biggest liquefied natural gas plant, located above the Arctic circle in Norway.
Natural gas supplies from Norway may potentially reach a fresh record this year as the country works to reduce its maintenance schedule across its facilities.
Norwegian green hydrogen technology firm Hystar has announced ABB will join its HyPilot project as a supplier.
Yara Clean Ammonia has joined up with the HyPilot project, alongside Hystar, Equinor and Gassco.
Norwegian energy giant Equinor has signed a raft of contracts with service company Aibel, totalling more than £400 million.
Energy service firm Wood, of Aberdeen, has clinched a £32.5 million deal to upgrade the Kollsnes gas processing plant in Norway
Subsea 7 has unveiled a new contract with Equinor in the Danish and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea.
Norway’s oil industry safety body has given Gassco until the end of the month to say how it will address potential hazards detected at its Karsto gas processing facility at Tysvaer.
The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil a deadline of September for a number of improvement points at the Heimdal gas centre.
Statoil has awarded the NOK1.1billion 10-year contract for insulation, scaffolding and surface treatment maintenance services at Sture and Kollnes to services company Prezioso Linjebygg.
Statoil, Gassco and ExxonMobil have received consent to perform manned underwater operations for one year from Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority.
Norway’s natural gas pipeline manager and the nation’s power grid are at odds over whether a solitary electricity cable across 75 miles of fjords and rugged mountains is enough to ensure supply to a processing plant that helps warm millions of European homes every winter.
Statoil has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to IKM Ocean Design for the Johan Sverdrup project.